...1727 : — Peace to all such ! but were there one whose Fires Apollo kindled, and fair Fame inspire?, Blest with each Talent, and each Art to please, And...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,...

...base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too. — BEN JoNSo.V. Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with case. — PoPE. Born to lament, to labour, and to dic. — Pnioa. First, Fear, his hand its skill to...

...hardly to be found in their most laboured works. One poet has recorded of Addison that he was " Form'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease." Another poet, remembering the groves he loved, says — " 'Twas here of just and good he reason'd strong,...

...hardly to be found in their most laboured works. One poet has recorded of Addison that he was " Form'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease." Another poet, remembering the groves he loved, says — " 'Twas here of just and good he reason'd strong,...

...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...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,...

...Pope, and that they should call Mr. Tiokell's emulation Mr. Addison's envy — if envy it were. " And were there one whose fires True genius kindles and...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...

...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...

...ADDISON. PEACE to all such! but were there one whose fires True genins kindles, and fair fame mspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And...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,...

...with each talent and each art to please is careful to distinguish endowments from skills. His . . . were there one whose fires True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires remembers that Fame is a speaking, hence a breath, inspiration a breathing into, hence directed breath,...

...portrait of Atticus. where universal truth lives as lastingly as in the characters of Achilles and Hamlet: Peace to all such '. But were there one whose fires True genius kindles and true fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And horn to write, converse, and...