| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...ends, Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise : Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay,...with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while along the stream of time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...ends, Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise ; Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay,...eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to ploase. O! while, along the stream of time, thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, * Say,... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise ; Form'd by thy con verso,, happily to ateer From grave to gay, from lively to severe ; Correct with...with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while, along the stream of time, thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...ends, Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise ; Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay,...with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O! while, along the stream of time, thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...glorious ends, teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, to fall with dignity, with temper rise : O ! while along the stream of time thy name expanded flies,...attendant sail, pursue the triumph, and partake the gale? shall then this verse to future age pretend, thou wert my guide, philosopher and friend? that urged... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 pages
...glorious ends, Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise: Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay,...to severe; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, 381 Intent to reason, or polite to please. O! while along the stream of time thy name Expanded flies,... | |
| 1904 - 694 pages
...glorious ends, Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise; Formed by thy converse happily to steer From grave to gay,...with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O, while along the stream of time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame; Say, shall my... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 520 pages
...Essays" and parts of his " Satires " that Pope deserves the praise which he himself desired : — " Happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to...with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please." Here Pope must be allowed to have established a style of his own, in which he is without a rival. One... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...18. This then was the answer to Pope's address to Bolingbroke at the end of the Essay on Man : — ' Oh ! while along the stream of time thy name Expanded...attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale ? ' ' Cosmus, Duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious friends, as if those wrongs... | |
| Henry Francis Battersby - 1906 - 1046 pages
...fascinating conversation and manners were singularly congenial with his own. Both formed by nature happily to steer, From grave to gay, from lively to...with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, and polite to please. Mr. Davison had the Colonel's portrait in the Twickenham house. The amiable Consul... | |
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