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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,... "
Nova anthologia Oxoniensis: translations into Greek and Latin verse - Page 62
edited by - 1899 - 279 pages
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...FaBoCo; FaBoEE; FM; InPK; LiTB; NOEC; NTCP; OxBoLi; OxBSP; RHPC; SoSe; TTTS Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 6 hrone of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's Pope Pope 7 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teach the rest to...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...Tate. 190 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; Blessed with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should...
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Englishness and National Culture

Antony Easthope - 1999 - 292 pages
...satirical portrait of Joseph Addison was published in 1735 in 'Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot', 11. 193-214: Peace to all such! but were there One whose fires...please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Shou'd such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him...
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The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron

Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 280 pages
...Atticus: 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...please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Shou'd such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the dirone, View him...
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Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660-1781

Richard G. Terry - 2001 - 378 pages
...reconcile their literary abilities with a life of all-round ease and attractiveness: Peace to all such! hut were there One whose fires True Genius kindles, and...please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ... " 11 Ibid. 14-15. 31 The three were often reviled. In bis Amelia, Fielding omits to describe his...
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A History of English Laughter: Laughter from Beowulf to Beckett and Beyond

Manfred Pfister - 2002 - 220 pages
...hless, whom Titan touch'd with purer Fire. Who hom with Talents, hred in Arts tu piease, Was form'd to write, converse, and live, with ease: Should such...the Turk, no Brother near the Throne: View him with scomful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate, for Arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise,...
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Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...his point: Pope's portrait of Addison ("Atticus") in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot contains the lines: "Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, / Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne" (lines 197-98); and Johnson's "rivals in the Roman state" perhaps has in mind the tragic impasse in...
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Baroque Garden Cultures: Emulation, Sublimation, Subversion, Volume 25

Michel Conan - 2005 - 452 pages
...Who born with Talents, bred in Arts to please, Was form'd to write, converse & live with ease; Shou'd such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the...Throne, View him with Scornful, yet with jealous eyes :" Pope, mss., marked "Precious" in pencil by someone, Hiirlcy Papers, xii. (nd, np). It became part...
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西洋文學術語手冊

張錯 - 2005 - 360 pages
...攻確之, 對其性格的描寫入木三分, 成為明記文 學的經典佳例。 其中一段如下: Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires; Bless,d with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease;...
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