 | Thomas Faulkner - 1810 - 514 էջ
...his latter character. In answer to a friend, who persuades him to go and see Sir Robert, he says I " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social...venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe/'1 In the year 1723, Sir Robert Walpole obtained from the Crown the lease of a house and garden... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 էջ
...but in his happier hour <>f social pleasure, ill-exchangM for power j .Seen him, uncumber'd with a venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a...oblige me ! let me only find, He does not think me what be thinks mankind. Come, come, at all I laugh Jie laughs, no doubt; The only difference is, I dare... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 էջ
...have, but In his happier hour Of social pleasure, HI-exchangM 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, He docs not think me what he thinks mankind. Come, come, at all I laugh he laughs, no cluubt j The only... | |
 | 1817 - 504 էջ
...I have, but in !iis happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for pow'r; been him, imeumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe." About the end of queen Anne's reign, and the beginning of George the First, he wrote the following... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 էջ
...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 the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win... | |
 | H. R. Duff - 1815 - 572 էջ
...but esteem the amiability of one of whom he says, and of whom Mr. Forbes might likewise have said— Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchang'd for power ! Seen him, uncumber'd by the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a... | |
 | John Aikin - 1815 - 506 էջ
...foes, has eulogized his private qualities in lines which compensate all the bitterness of his satire : 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... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 էջ
...see sir Robert," will be more durable than monumental brass, and shews his estimable private worth: 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... | |
 | William Coxe - 1816 - 448 էջ
...conversation, and in the moment of festivity realised the fine eulogium which Pope has given of him, — • " Seen him, I have, but, in his happier hour " Of social pleasure, ill-exchang'd for power; " Seen hinuuncumber'd with the venal tribe, " Smile without art, and win without... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 էջ
...has eulogised his private qualities in lines, which compensate all the bitterness of his satire : ' 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... | |
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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. 
