...Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, io,5 And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...eyes. And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 20* Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;...

...each talent and each art to plcafe, And born to write, convcrfc, and live with cafe : • Should fuch a man. too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himlelf to rife ; Damn with faint praife,...

...midlt of his engagements on the fame fubjeft, and by a creature of Mr. Addifon's, made Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, Alike NOTES. made him fufpeft this to be another maft from the fame quiver : And after a diligent enquiry,...

...expressive language. For a specimen in this way take these lines of Pope, Sect. III. Complete sentence*. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, |) assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach...

...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...near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil...

...: 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...near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil...

...fultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, ** Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But this is not the beft of his little piecfcs : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy...

...: 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...near the throne ; View Him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil...

...Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, 195 And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to...

...are sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill.4* ' » And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throw." But this is net the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem ttf Fanshaw, and...