...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 ;...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...

...obscurité. True genius kindles, aud fair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease :...Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View whim with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with...

...as I trust I shall, that part is untrue, we ought surely to give little credit to the rest. Bowles. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, NOTES. mer (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve,...

...as I trust I shall, that part is untrue, we ought surely to give little credit to the rest. Bowles. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, mer (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve, affirms...

...as I trust I shall, that part is untrue, we ought surely to give little credit to the rest. Bon-lei. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, mcr (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve, affirms...

...said Pope, much amused ; " quite epigrammatic." — " Not so bad!" said Swift; " fie upon you !" ' View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ;' ' Damn with faint praise !' • "Fie — fie — fie!" Well, silence, gentlemen,...

...fires True genins kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ;...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...

.... And born to write, converse, and lire with ease ; ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, i >Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,...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...

...with eaeh talent and eaeh art to please, And bom to write, eonverse, and live with east: Should sueh om this, by merited seornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that eaus'd himself to rise ; Daum with faint praise,...

...prologues, Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; For every authour 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...