 Vice had his hate and pity too. Blest Courtier! who could King and country please, Yet sacred keep his Friendships, and his Ease. Blest Peer! his great Forefathers ev'ry grace Reflecting, and reflected in his Race ; Where other BUCKHURSTS, other DORSETS...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 351by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1878 - 504 pages
...lay, His anger moral, and his wisdom gay. Blest satyrist! who touch'd the mean so true, As show'd, Vice had his hate and pity too. Blest courtier ! who could king and country please, Yet sacred kept his friendship, and his ease. Blest peer ! his great forefather's every grace Reflecting, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 572 pages
...in this epitaph, written DJ Pope:— "Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay;" md again: — " Blest courtier, who could king and country please Yet sacred keep his friendships and his ease." • Barillon, Jan. -fg, 1687; Citters, j^-gTheEarl of Pembroke, who had recently served the crown with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 532 pages
...gay. Blest satirist I who touch'd the mean BO true, As shew"d vice had his hate and pity too. Bleat courtier! who could king and country please^ Yet sacred keep his friendships and hia ease. Blest peer I hia great forefathers' every grace Reflecting, and reflected in his race; Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 570 pages
...Lay; His Anger moral, and his Wisdom gay. Blest Satirist! who touch'd the Mean so true, As show'd, Vice had his hate and pity too. Blest Courtier! who...shine, And Patriots still, or Poets, deck the Line. II. ON SIR WILLIAM TRUMBAL, One of the Principal Secretaries of State to King WILLIAM III. who hai... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...friendship and his ease. Blest peer I his great forefather's every grace Reflecting, and reflected on his race ; Where other Buckhursts, other Dorsets shine, And patriots still, or poets, deck the line." worthy of praise ascribed to die dead, bat none that fifceiy to exempt him from the lot of man, or... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1879 - 624 pages
...touched in his epitaph, written by Pope : " Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay ;" and again : " Blest courtier, who could king and country please, Yet sacred keep his friendship and his ease." • Barillon, Jan. -fg, 1688 ; Van Citters, ¿"^ f Adda, Feb. A, T?. 1668... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 pages
...of genius, selects, as his crowning quality, his power of inspiring general regard and esteem— " Blest courtier who could king and country please, Yet sacred keep his friendships and his ease." Ib. Titus Vespasian. Tacitus, too discerning and too honest a writer to be suspected of flattery, gives... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 1136 pages
...epitaph, written by Pope:— " Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay ; " •nd again :— " Bless'd courtier, who could king and country please, Yet sacred keep his friendships aml his ease"." victed, and sentenced to a fine of ten thousand pounds. A large part of this sum he... | |
 | W V. Yates - 1884 - 170 pages
...country please, Yet sacred kept his friendships and his ease. Bless'd peer! his great forefathers' every grace Reflecting, and reflected in his race ; Where other Buckhursts, other Dorsets shine, And patrons still, or poets, deck the line.' A. 13.—' The Earl of Dorset died. He was an ornament to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1885 - 374 pages
...his ease. Blest peer! his great forefather's every grace Reflecting, and reflected on his race; 30 Where other Buckhursts, other Dorsets shine, And patriots still, or poets, deck the line.' The first distich of this epitaph contains a kind of information which few would want, that the man... | |
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