 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...  The English humourists - Сторінка 162автори: William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1859 - 722 стор.
...vexation and spite that he cannot have ' Caractacus' acted on the spot. " Peace to all such ! " But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, [Pope.] he would immortalise you, for all you have been carrying on in Jersey, and for all you shall... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 стор.
...light ne'er seen before, As fancy never could have drawn, And never can restore. REV. CHAS. WOLFE. 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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 604 стор.
...is curious that Pope should have laid to Addison's charge this very spirit of mole-eyed envy : "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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 стор.
...a Tate. How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! And swear not ADDISON himself was safe. 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... | |
 | Benjamin Lambert - 1861 - 62 стор.
...chafe, And swear not Addison himself wag safe ! Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fi res 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - 696 стор.
...vexation and spite that he cannot have ' Caractacus' acted on the spot. " Peace to all such ! " But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, [Pope.] he would immortalise you, for all you have been carrying on in Jersey, and for all you shall... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 стор.
...poets made a Tate " — the poet proceeds to strike at higher game : — " Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires : Bless' d with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 стор.
...Arbuthnot. which now forms the Prologue to the Satires. It is as follows : • "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 boru to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 360 стор.
...for weeping, so much we know from the very first. The very first line says, " Peace to all such. But were there one whose fires true genius kindles and fair fame inspires." Thus falls to the ground the whole antithesis of this famous character. We are to change our mood from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 стор.
...fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! And swear not Addison himself was safe. Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to' write, converse, and live with ease ;... | |
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