 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...— 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...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... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1865 - 858 pages
...language : \ ' And were there one whose fires True genius kindles and fair fame inspires, Blest with eacli talent and each art to please, And born to write,...scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with false praise, assent with civil leer, * And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Ireland - 1866 - 656 pages
...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...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ;... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1866 - 484 pages
...subdued jealousy of other men's glory which drew from Pope those far-famed and admirable lines — "were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and...rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the thronej View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...poets made a Tate. 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ; And swear, not Aridison himself was safe ! Peace to all such ! But were there...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...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 pleas'e, And born...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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1867 - 492 pages
..."were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair lame inspires ; Bless'd wilh each taleni and each art to please, And born to write, converse,...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...Peace to all such! but were there One whose fires1 True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 476 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1869 - 512 pages
...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...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... | |
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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 Turk... 
