 | 1826 - 374 էջ
...I have, but in his happier hour, Of social pleasure, ill exchang'd for power ; Seen him, uncumoer'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe." MAKING FREE OF THE CELLAR. Corbet, Bishop of Norwich, so well known for his convivial hahits, possessed... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1827 - 794 էջ
...glad to escape from the trammels of corruption ; they would prefer to reign " — — — Uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe." Hence the declaration of the right hon. Foreign Secretary which I have, before noticed — hence the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 228 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, uncumber'd by the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe.' Ver. 315. Arnall] William Arnail,... | |
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 698 էջ
...their price." Pope, who was no friend of courts or courtiers, has given him this gratuitous praise : " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for pow'r ; Seen him, nncumbered with the venal trihe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe." Mr.... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1829 - 444 էջ
...for, in answer to a friend, who persuaded him to go and see Sir Robert, he deliberately writes — Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchaug'd fur pow'r : Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, • , Smile without art, and win without... | |
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 654 էջ
...I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasnre, ill exchanged for pow'r ; Seen him, nncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe." Mr. Burke knew also several persons who had been opposed to or connected with the administration of... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 էջ
...Pope's elegant muse : Seen him 1 have ; but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, — ill exehang'd for power — Seen him uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. The best portraits of this intelligent and acute writer, Horace Walpole, are the portrait in Mr. Dallaway's... | |
 | 1832 - 616 էջ
...I hnve, but in his happier hour Of sociat pleasure, ill exchang'd for power ; Srеn him, nncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. As an orator, he was nervous and animated, but not profound ; persuasive and plausible, but not elegant.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1835 - 358 էջ
...and begun to bid First but for one, and after for the pair; They haggled, wrangled, swore, too—so they did! As though they were in a mere Christian...without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me 1 let me only find He does not think me, what he thinks mankind.' Although it is not possible to justify... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 382 էջ
...Go see Sir Robert6 — 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, uncumber'd with a venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a... | |
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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. 
