 | David Lester RICHARDSON - 1848 - 580 pages
...famous lines on Addison. It is Pope's masterpiece— Peace to all such! but were there one whose 6res True genius kindles and fair fame inspires, Blest...write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe, And swear not Addison himself was safe. Peace to all such ! hut were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And horn to write, converse, and live with ease... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...a Tote. How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! And swear not ADDISON himself was safe. Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires...please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : * Tibbalds or Theobald,— a critic, who rendered service to literature by many restorations of Shakspeare's... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...admirable lines— o " were there one whose 6 res True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born...write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 pages
...subdued jealousy of other men's glory which drew from Pope those far-famed and admirable limes — . " 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 j... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...piece of dissection without believing that it must have touched upon some points of real soreness. " Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires...and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and eaeh art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 318 pages
...were a sufficient reason 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... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1851 - 54 pages
...piece of dissection without believing that it must have touched upon some points of real soreness. " Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires...write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 348 pages
...inserted in the Epistle to Arbuthnot, which now forms the Prologue to the Satires : it is as follows ; " Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires...Blest with each talent and each art to please. And horn to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, lite... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 302 pages
...were a sufficient reason 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... | |
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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... 
