 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 296 էջ
...not been the mover of his disgrace.' — Walpole's Letters, i. cxix. 3 Pope thus describes him : — 'Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill-exchang'd for pow'r ; Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 էջ
...on Sir Robert Walpole are not bad, but they inevitably recall the exquisite couplets of Pope:— " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill-exchang'd for power; Smile without art, and win without a bribe." Seen him, uncumber'd with the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 էջ
...groat. Go see SIR ROBERT — P. See SIR ROBERT ! — hum ! And never laugh — for all my life to come? Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power ; Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 630 էջ
...Pope repaid him with more than one compliment. Thus, in the Epilogue to the Satires, he says, — " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power. Seen him, encumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art and win without a bribe." Another Whig statesman... | |
 | National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) - 1896 - 526 էջ
...of the very few commoners in modern times who have ever been invested with the latter. " Seen him 1 have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure,...tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe.'' Such is the pleasing character which Pope has drawn of Walpole in private life. Purchased by the Trustees,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 էջ
...sanctioned and promoted. Yet Pope knew how to praise the great Whig statesman for his social qualities : ' Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power ; Seen him uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art and win without a bribe.' Epistle IV. pursues the... | |
 | 1897 - 654 էջ
...Friend. Go, see Sir Robert. Pope. See Sir Robert ! hum — And never laugh — for all my life to come ? Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill-exchanged for power ; Seen him, uncumbered with a venal tribe Smile without art, and win without... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1898 - 356 էջ
...known him on his official side, and quoted to me, very appropriately, Pope's lines about Walpole :— " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social...tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe." Burton's own anecdotes were excellent, but a little too dependent on a knowledge of Scotch and Scotland... | |
 | 1900 - 674 էջ
...and Pope repaid him with more than one compliment. Thus, in the Epilogue to the Satires, he says, — Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social...tribe, Smile without art and win without a bribe. Another Whig statesman for whom Pope seems to have entertained an especially warm regard was James... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1901 - 478 էջ
...personal character by all they have written as by one short occasional compliment of our author: " ' Seen him I have; but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power ; Seen him uncumbered by the venal tribe. Smile without art and win without a bribe.' " of credit to furnish me... | |
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Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power ; Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. 
