...talent and each nrt to please, And born to write, converse, anil live with ease : Should such a DIM, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering,...

...Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But this is not the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy...

...prologues, Poets are sultans, if they had their -will ; For every author would his brother kill. And Pope, Should such a man too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. But this is not the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy...

...the falsehood serv'd her hateful ends, Congenial audience found in hollow friends ; Who to the tale " assent with civil leer, " And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;" His friendship o'er me spread that guardian shield, Which his severest virtue best could wield ; Repell'd...

...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, no rival near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd...

...: Blest with each talent a1id each art to please, And horn to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no hrother near the throne jView him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd...

...concealed from others. 182 • The 1. inter shuns responsibility, the suggester claims gratitude. Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope. AVe must suggest to the people in what hatred He still hath held them. Shakspeare; To intimate...

...perceived, too profoundly felt, and too unmercifully avenged. These are alluded to, when the Satirist sings, Damn with faint praise ; assent with civil leer ;...to strike; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike, &c. * From Lord Egmont's MS. Collections. See the Addpnda to Kippis's Biographia Britanoica. r Accusations...

...; 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...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faiut praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach...

...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...near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; * Ambrose Philips translated a book called...