 | John Dennis - 1908 - 288 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... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 էջ
...hour 353. A poetic Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power ; wfe,reilce to Seen him, uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. IV. THE REBELLION OF THE YOUNG PRETENDER AND THE WESLEYAN MOVEMENT The following passages are extracts... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 էջ
...and see Sir Robert. He replies : 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... | |
 | 1911 - 242 էջ
...nineteen years he kept England at peace, and completed and confirmed the settlement of the Revolution. 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... | |
 | 1912 - 782 էջ
...him laugh," and there are famous lines of Pope, who was his enemy, which very happily depict him — Seen him I have ; but in his happier hour Of social pleasure ill-exchanged for power ; Seen him uucuinbeied with the venal tribe, Smile without art and win without... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 էջ
...confessor, and was repaid for this kindness by some of the most graceful lines he ever wrote : — Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social...venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe.1 Another man who had played a principal and brilliant part in the wars and politics of Europe,... | |
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - 1913 - 668 էջ
...that of his opponent Pope, in one of the most tender and truly poetical passages he ever wrote : " 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. Would he oblige me ? only... | |
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - 1913 - 668 էջ
...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. Would he oblige me ? only let me find He does not think me what he thinks mankind." Such a man could have little sympathy... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1914 - 238 էջ
...with more than one compliment. Thus, in the Epilogue to the Satires, he says, — Seen him I hare, bat in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged...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... | |
 | Ralph Nevill - 1919 - 354 էջ
...good abbey near Avignon in France. Pope had a great regard for Sir Robert Walpole, of whom he wrote : Seen him I have but in his happier hour Of Social Pleasure, ill exchanged for Pow'r ; Seen him, uncumbered with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would... | |
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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. 
