| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 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-exchang'd for power; Seen him, uncumberM with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 448 էջ
...everybody could converse with equal facility. Pope says of him, speaking of his social qualities : " Seen him, I have, but in his happier hour, Of social pleasure, ill-exchanged for power ; Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 444 էջ
...everybody could converse with equal facility. Pope says of him, speaking of his social qualities : " Seen him, I have, but in his happier hour, Of social pleasure, ill-exchanged for power; Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
| Dartmouth College, Homer Eaton Keyes - 1902 - 318 էջ
...indeed, I never heard in public, but whom I William knew in a better way than in public. Everett " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power." I saw him in our house. There was no stateliness there, there was no pompousness, there was no drawing... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 էջ
...groat Go see Sir Robert — P. See Sir Robert! — hum And never langh — for all my life to come; Seen him I have; but in his happier hour Of social...ill exchanged for Power; Seen him, uncumber'd with a venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find 33... | |
| William Alfred Dutt - 1904 - 472 էջ
...strenuous life he has led, there is still something about it reminding one of what Pope has said of him : ' 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 էջ
...mentions dining at Walpole's. Pope's Works (Elwin and Courthope), ix. 107. He wrote of him : — ' Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchangM for power.' Epil. Sat. i. 29. For Walpole's favourite subject of conversation see Boswell's... | |
| John Dennis - 1906 - 286 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1906 - 362 էջ
...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-exchang'd for Pow'r ; Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1906 - 628 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-exchangM for power ; Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
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