| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 Seiten
...regards, as honest and sincere a man as ever I knew." — BWITT, to Lady Betty Germaine, Jan. 1733. * " Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour tem'pring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation... | |
| John Gay - 1854 - 312 Seiten
...memory," upon which Pope wrote the following lines, in all the fulsome fervour of poetic hyperbole : — " Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a child, With Nature's humour, temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once, and lash the age ; Above... | |
| Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 Seiten
...epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Is everything by starts, but nothing long. Drydeu. 14 Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a child. Pope. 15 His heart methinks Is generous and noble — noble in its scorn Of all things low or little... | |
| James Thomson - 1856 - 346 Seiten
...popular, but immoral writer — a companion of Swift, and of Pope. The latter characterized him as Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man, simplicity a child. The epitaph in Westminster Abbey, written for and by himself, consists of the following lines : Life... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died. XI. ON MR GAY, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1782. OF manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child : With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 Seiten
...satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died. XI. ON MR GAY, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. OF manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child : With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...to the Satires. Dialogue i. Line 136. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Epitaph on Gay. Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child.* Eloisa to Abelard. Line 57. Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus... | |
| James Thomson - 1856 - 344 Seiten
...popular, but immoral writer — a companion of Swift, and of Pope. The latter characterized him as Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man, simplicity a child. The epitaph in Westminster Abbey, written for and by himself, consists of the following lines : And... | |
| George Willis - 1857 - 116 Seiten
...andj,tit-a-cvrpi roie, is a mystery which my researches do not enable me to explain. NOTES BY A BOOKSELLER.* JOHN GAY, the ingenious poet, whom Pope styles —...character is proved untrue by the strong passions of which he was possessed, and the disappointment of which hurt him much, as we find in his life. I... | |
| Willis's Current notes - 1857 - 114 Seiten
...rose, is a mystery which my researches do not enable me to explain. NOTES BY A BOOKSELLER.* JOHN GAV, the ingenious poet, whom Pope styles — Of manners...character is proved untrue by the strong passions of which he was possessed, and the disappointment of which hurt him much, as we find in his life. I... | |
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