 | 1796 - 500 pages
...bless'd in ev'ry strain ! 5 Dear to the Muse ! to Harley dear — in vain ! For him thou oft' hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in the friend ; For Swift and himdespis'd the farce of state, The sober follies of the wise and great; 10 Dext'rous the craving,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...bless'd in ev'ry strain ! 5 Dear to the Muse ! to Harley dear — in vain ! For him thou oft' hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman...of state, The sober follies of the wise and great ; 10 * Sent to the Earl of Oxford with Dr. ParnelPs Poems, published by our Author after the Earl's... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 pages
...each science, blest in ev'ry strain ; Dear to the Muse, to HARLEV dear in vain ! For him thou oft hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman...Dext'rous, the craving, fawning crowd to quit, And plcas'd to 'scape from flattery to wit. r BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES. 187 Nor was Bolingbroke... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...may be equally admitted, as being equally defensible by authority. Thus great is differently used. For Swift and him despis'd the farce of state, The sober follies of the wise and great, PofE. As if misfortune trade the throne her seat, And none could be unhappy but the great. Rowr. The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...hlesa'd in every strain I Dear to the Muse ! to Harley dear— in vain ! For him thou oft hast hid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in...For Swift and him despis'd the farce of state. The soher follies of the wise and great ; Dext'rous the craving, fawning, crowd to quit, And pleas'd to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...bless'd in everv strain! 5 Dear to the Muse! to Harley dear — in vain! For him thou oft hast hid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in...For Swift and him despis'd the farce of state, The soher lollies of the wise and great; 10 Dext'rous the craving, fawning, crowd to quit, And pleas'd... | |
 | 1808 - 844 pages
...hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in the frieml, For SWIP r and him despised the farce of state, The sober follies of the wise...great; Dextrous the craving fawning crowd to quit, And pleased to 'scape from Flattery to Wit _ Nor was Bolingbroke less pleased with the character and manners... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 pages
...Oxford, whom Pope has so finely compli-, mented upon the delicacy of his choice. For him thou oft hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman...of state, The sober follies of the wise and great ; Dexterous the craving, fawning crowd to quit, And pleas'd to 'scape from flattery to wit. Pope himself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...being equally defensible by authority. Thus great is differently used ; For Sivift and him despis'il the farce of state, The sober follies of the wise and great. POPE. As if misfortune made the throne her seat, And none could be unhappy but the great. Ro WE. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...blest in every strain ! Dear to the Muse ! to Harley dear — in vain ! For him, thou oft hast bid tlie world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in the...the craving, fawning crowd to quit, And pleas'd to 'soape from riattery to wit. Absent or dead, ••till let a friend be dear, f A sigh th( absent claims,... | |
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Dear to the muse, to Harley dear in vain ! For him, thou oft hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in the friend : For Swift and him, despis'd the farce of state The sober follies of the wise and great; Dext'rous, the craving, fawning... 
