 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 psl.
...Blest with each talent and each urt to please, And hurn to write, converse, and live with ease; Shonld such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the tbrone, View him with scornfol, yet with jealons eyes, And hate for arts that cansed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 psl.
...Blest with each talent and each art to please And born to write, converse, nnd lire with e Should -ncli a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the thron View him with scornful, vet with jealous eve And hate for arts that cain'd himself... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 psl.
...inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 psl.
...and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should snch a man, too fund to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, Vkw him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that cnus'd himself to rise ; Damn... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 psl.
...inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that cans'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 psl.
...talent and eneli art to-pleasc, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a raan, o G - hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 psl.
...; Blest with f ach talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like...View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, Ami,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 psl.
...talent and each nrt to please, And born to write, converse, anil live with ease : Should such a DIM, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother...View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 psl.
...Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But this is not the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 psl.
...prologues, Poets are sultans, if they had their -will ; For every author would his brother kill. And Pope, Should such a man too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. But this is not the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
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Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk,... 
