| 1812 - 762 pagina’s
...The following is by far tuo flattering at character : " A soul supreme, in each bard instance trj'd, Above all pain, all anger, and all pride ; The rage...of power, the blast of public breath« The lust of lucie, and the dread of death,." Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. HESKE'S ERASMUS.... | |
| Stephen Jones - 1799 - 456 pagina’s
...hiitnemory ¿i the following lines ; ** A soul supreme, in each hard instance meet, Abcve all p.-,.; -, all anger, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast...breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death." t , . ÍJARMER (THOMAS) an emijient dissenting divine, and critical writer on biblical uterature, vrax... | |
| 1901 - 604 pagina’s
...depreciatory damnation is unjust. ' A soul supreme, in each hard instance try'd, Above all pain, and passion, and all pride ; The rage of power, the blast of public...breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.' % These fine lines — which we must remember were written » .= a dedication in an edition of Parnell's... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pagina’s
...supreme in each hard instance try'd, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride ; The rage of pow'r, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. And of which fortitude and firmness, another striking proof still remains, in a letter which the Earl... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 pagina’s
...intrinsically valuable, should have beA soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, and passion, and all pride; The rage of power, the blast of public...breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made ; The muse attends thec to thy silent shade : 'Tis her's the... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 562 pagina’s
...supreme, in each hard instance try'd, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of pow'r, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts tby retreat is made, The Muse attends thee to tby silent shade : 'Tis lrer's the... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pagina’s
...adulatory line* of the immortal Pope no less verify the last : A soul supreme, in each hard instance try'd, Above all pain, all anger, and all pride ; 'The rage...blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dvead of death. We presume thereforej that we shall be justified in recommending to the reader an attentive... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pagina’s
...'tis a soul like thine ; A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public...breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made, The Muse attends thee to thy silent shade : 1'is her's the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pagina’s
...'tis a soul like thine : A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried. Above all pain, and passion, and all pride. The rage of power, the blast of public breath. The lust of lncre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made ; The muse attends thee to thy... | |
| Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 pagina’s
...in his nobl« 21-' lines, dedicating Parnell's poems to this earl, celebrates him as possessing « A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above...breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death." « He died 1724, set. 64. He was the rival of Bolingbroke, who has painted him in the blackest colours... | |
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