 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 8 páginas
...illustrious friends, which drew from Mr. Pope the following famous lines : POPE'S SATIBE ON ADDISON. 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 ;... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856
...illustrious friends, which drew from Mr. Pope the following famous lines : POPE'S SATIBE ON ADDISON. 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 j... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 408 páginas
...character of Addison is an admirable specimen of Pope's best satirical discrimination and skill : — " Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires...fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each heart to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease, — Should such a man, too fond to... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 384 páginas
...others plait the gown. And Betty's praised for labours not her own. 21 a SATIRICAL PORTRAIT OP Anmsow. 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1859
...the contrary, will die of 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 253 páginas
...to Dr. Arbuthnot, lines 193, &c. ; in which Addison is described under the name of Atticus : — " 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859
...that nine such poets made a Tate. How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe, . Aud swear nut Addison himself was safe. Peace to all such ! But were there one whose firef True genius kindle i, ai.J fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please.... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860
...character of Addison is an admirable specimen of Pope's best satirical discrimination and skill : — "Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles and fair fame inspires, Blessed with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease, —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860
...my modest satire bade translate, And owu'd that nine such punts made a Tile, {low did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe, And swear not Addison himself was safe. Peace to all s'irh ! but were there one whose firei True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886
...obscurity." It 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... | |
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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... 
