 | James Boaden - Actors - 1893 - 506 pages
...then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignify'd delight ; When Pleasure fired her torch at Virtue's flame, And Mirth was bounty with an humbler name.' Pope, by infinite pains, elaborated his composition into verse like this: — the early and continued... | |
 | James Boaden - Actors - 1893 - 554 pages
...then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignify'd delight; When Pleasure fired her torch at Virtue's flame, And Mirth was bounty with an humbler name.' Pope, by infinite pains, elaborated his composition into verse like this:—the early and continued... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...appear, Forbear to hiss — the poet cannot hear. By all like him must praise and blame be found At best a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. Yet then shall calm...When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure fiVd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humb.'er name. JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss ; — the poet cannot hear. By all, e should think that sickness, and the view of death,...it : they have not the first notion. A man who has fired her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name." A circumstance which... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...appear, Forbear to hiss — the poet cannot hear. By all like him must praise and blame be found At best a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. Yet then shall calm reflection bless the night, When liberal pity dignifted delight ; When pleasure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler... | |
 | Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1903 - 360 pages
...to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss;—the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last,...flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. From the church and the stage Johnson would sometimes turn to the law, to which profession he often... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss ; — the poet cannot hear. By all, tion upon this subject : — 'Nothing but experience...groundless reports should be propagated, as every touch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name.' A circumstance which could not... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 634 pages
...praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss ;—the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last,...not fail to be very pleasing to Johnson, occurred tliis year. The tragedy of " Sir Thomas Overbury," written by his early companion in London, Richard... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1852
...praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss ; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last,...When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure fired her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name." A circumstance which... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1913 - 632 pages
...appear, Forbear to hiss — the poet cannot hear. By all like him must praise and blame be found At best a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. Yet then shall calm...flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY. [JOHN WESLEY, founder of 'the people called Methodists,' was the second son... | |
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tis too late to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. 
