 | 1865
...and piercing wit, and refined and delicate irony, these Hues are unsurpassed in any language : " And were there one whose fires True genius kindles and fair fame inspires, • Blest with each talent and each art to please, And bcjrn to write, converse, and live witli ease... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1866
...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... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 483 páginas
...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 True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And horn to write, converse, and live with ease :... | |
 | 1867
...my modest satire bade translate, And own'd that nine such Poets made a Tate. 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 True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 309 páginas
...Pope, and that they should call Mr. Tickell's emulation Mr. Addison's envy — if envy it were. "And 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; * "That... | |
 | 1868
...become a proverb, and which has served the purpose of many another mortified and embittered soul : — " Were there one whose fires True genius kindles and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent, and laeh art to please, And born to write, converse, and live at ease ; Should... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 850 páginas
...40 How would they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! How would they swear, not Congreve's self was safe ! Peace to all such ! but were there one, whose Fires Apollo kindled, and fair Fame inspires, Blest with each Talent, and each Art to please, 45 And born... | |
 | 1896
...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 born to write, converse, and... | |
 | 1900
...modest satire bade translate, And o\vn'd thaï nine such poets made a Taie. How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! And swear, not Addison himself was safe. Peace to ail such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and faire famé inspires ; Blest with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 226 páginas
...modest satire bad translate, And owned that nine such poets made a Tate. 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe! And swear, not ADDISON...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: 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... 
