 | John Bell - 1792 - 340 ページ
...characteristic of POPF'S literary life. Tuneful ALEXIS, on the Thames' fair side, The ladies* play-thing, and the muses' pride, With merit popular, with wit...APPROVES, ^ And wants the soul to spread the worth he loves. I HAVE little more to add to this mention, but that in marriage he was happy, and he deserved... | |
 | James Grant Raymond - 1806 - 306 ページ
...tone. Hill's replication to Pope is too evidently applicable to Johnson's exalted malevolence: who, " Desiring and deserving others' praise, Poorly accepts...approves, And wants the soul to spread the worth he loves." But he was an author for the stage, though not a successful one: and it is well known that... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 ページ
...and compliment, and replied thus: Tuneful Alexis On the Thames' fair side, The Ladies' play-thing, and the Muses' pride ; With merit popular, with wit...vain, and elegant though light, Desiring and deserving other's praise Poorly accepts a fame he ne'er repays ; Unborn to cherish, sneakingly approves, And... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 482 ページ
...yet very severely characterized : Tuneful Alexis, on the Thames' fair side. The ladies' plaything, and the Muses' pride; With merit popular, with wit...accepts a fame he ne'er repays : Unborn to cherish, iittaHngfy apprava, And wants the soul to tprtad the worth he loves. By the " sneakingly approves,"... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 476 ページ
...characterized : Tuneful Alexis, on the Thames' fair side. The ladies' plaything, and the Muses' piide; With merit popular, with wit polite, Easy, though...accepts a fame he ne'er repays : Unborn to cherish, ineaHngfy apfro-ves, And wants the soul to sprtad the worth he loves. By the " sneakingly approves,"... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 ページ
...play-thing, and the Muse's pride ; With merit popular, with wit polite, Easy, tho' vain, and elegant, tho' light ; Desiring, and deserving others' praise, Poorly...Unborn to cherish, sneakingly approves, And wants t lit soul to spread the worth he loves." The " sneakingly approves," in the last couplet, Pope was... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 472 ページ
...characterized : Tuneful Alexis, on the Thames' fair side, The ladies' plaything, and the Muses' piide; With merit popular, with wit polite, Easy, though...and elegant, though light; Desiring, and deserving, othets* praise, Poorly accepts a fame he ne'et repays : Unborn to cherish, sneaHngfy approves, And... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 536 ページ
...play-thing, and the Muse's pride; With merit popular, with wit polite, Easy, 11 in' vain, and elegant, tho' light; Desiring, and deserving others' praise, Poorly...approves, And wants the soul to spread the worth he loves." All this, however, might have passed among two of the genus irntabile without creating perpetual... | |
 | 1814 - 540 ページ
...Muse's pride ;' With merit popular, with wit polite, . • '.• Easy, tho' vain, and elegant, tho' light ; Desiring, and deserving others' praise, • . • Poorly accepts a fame he ne'er repays : Unbdrn to cherish, sneakingly approves, And wants the soul to spread the worth he loves." The " sneakingly... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1818 - 262 ページ
...play-thing, and the muses' pride ; Wilh merit popular, with wit polite ; Easy, though vain ; and elegnut though light ; Desiring and deserving others' praise,...approves, And wants the soul to spread the worth he loves. This was fixing Pope's accusation of Addison's envy upon himself.* 1 have, with some pleasure,... | |
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Tuneful Alexis, on the Thames' fair side, The ladies' play-thing, and the muses' pride- — With merit popular, with wit polite, Easy though vain, and elegant though light, — Desiring and deserving others... 
