 | Ralph Nevill - 1920 - 378 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... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 268 էջ
...bitterest foes, and yet he paid to the enemy of his friends the tribute of those graceful lines — 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... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 252 էջ
...bitterest foes, and yet he paid to the enemy of his friends the tribute of those graceful lines — 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... | |
 | Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - 1922 - 472 էջ
...Whom many loved, few hated, none despised."f This view is endorsed by Pope, seldom a kindly critic: " 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. Would he oblige me ? Let... | |
 | Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - 1924 - 488 էջ
...Whom many loved, few hated, none despised."f This view is endorsed by Pope, seldom a kindly critic: " 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 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; 30 Seen him, uncumber'd with a Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without... | |
 | John Dennis - 1928 - 280 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 390 էջ
...that of our great prime miniver Sir Robert Walpole, in whom Pope contrasts felicity with greatness. "Seen him I have but in his happier hour "Of social pleasure ill exchanged for power."5 Agesilaus did not exchange social pleasure for power, but enjoyed them both without suffering... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1928 - 374 էջ
...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." Disraeli in his younger days was notorious for his extravagances; his dress by itself must have offended... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 էջ
...glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory."1 He could even have a good word for Sir Robert : " 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... | |
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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. 
