 I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie: To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with...  An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry ... - Էջ 365James Beattie - 1771 - 568 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 էջ
...me dead. Sciz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I fit with fad civility, I read With honeft anguilh, and an aching head; And drop at laft, but in unwilling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 էջ
...dead. Seiz'd, and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of Face. I fit with fad civility ; I read .With honeft anguifh, and an aching head ; And drop... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1794 - 482 էջ
...raifing public apprehenfions, with regard to the fecufity of property, and the fafety of the ftate. To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. * Commentaries, vol. ip 328, 4th edit, • -1: K 3 CHA t CHAP. IX. The Commercial Failures, in 1763.... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1794 - 468 էջ
...raifing public apprehenfions, with regard to the fccurity of property, and the fafety of the ftate. To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. * Commerjtajies, vol. ip ^28, 4th edit. CHAT. CHAP. IX. Commercial Failure!, in 1763. — Opinions... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 էջ
...down to judge, h> w wretched I ? Who can't be filent, und who will not lie : To laugh, were want nf goodnefs and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of. face. 1 fit with fad civility; I read With horeft anguifh. and an aching head ; And drop at lair, hut in... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 580 էջ
...illiterate. * Pope perhaps had this passage in his thoughts when lie wrote, " To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, " And to be grave, exceeds all power of face : " / sit with sad civility , — I read "With honest anguish and an aching head." - - Our author appears... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 էջ
...readme dead. Stiz'd and tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be lilent, and who will not lie: To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace; And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r of face : I fit with fad civility, I read With honeft anguilb, and an aching heail ; And drop... | |
 | James Beattie (LL.D.) - 1807 - 400 էջ
...qualities, that one knows hot with what temper of mind to consider it : " To laugh, were want of goodness, and of grace ; " And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. But why insist so long on the universal acknowledgment of man's free agency ? To me it is as evident * In the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 էջ
...jndge, how wretched 1! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To langh, were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish, and an aching head ; And drop at last, but in... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 էջ
...to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of .face. With honest anguish and an aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel,... | |
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