 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...Forbear to hiss — the poet cannot hear ! By all like him must praise and blame be found, At best a fleeting gleam or empty sound. Yet then shall calm...When liberal pity dignified delight; When pleasure fired her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. EPILOGUE, INTENDED TO... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...praise. If want OÏ skill or want of care appt-ar, Forbear to hiss ;— the poet cannut hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found. At last,...empty sound ; Yet then shall calm reflection bless the n¡¿ut, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure fired her torch at virtue's flame, And... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 pages
...appear, Forbear to hiss — the poet cannot hear. By all like him must praise and blame be found At best a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. Yet then shall calm...flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY. [JOHN WESLEY, founder of ' the people called Methodists,' was the second son... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...appear, Forbear to hiss — the poet cannot hear. By all like him must praise and blame be found At best a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. Yet then shall calm...flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY. [JOHN WESLEY, founder of ' the people called Methodists,' was the second son... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 638 pages
...appear, Forbear to hiss — the poet cannot hear. By all like him must praise and blame be found At best a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. Yet then shall calm...When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure ftVd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 pages
...appear, Forbear to hiss — the poet cannot hear. By all like him must praise and blame be found At best a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. Yet then shall calm...When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure fiVd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 632 pages
...appear, Forbear to hiss—the poet cannot hear. By all like him must praise and blame be found At best a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. Yet then shall calm...When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure fiVd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...praise. . If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss ; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last,...When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleasure fired her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name." A circumstance which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss;—the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last,...When liberal pity dignified delight; When pleasure fired her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name." A circumstance which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 436 pages
...praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss ; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last,...When pleasure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirlh was bounty with an humbler name." A circumstance which could not fail to be very pleasing to... | |
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tis too late to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. 
