 | Alexander Pope - 1738 - 184 pages
...— 78 JVV/J cumpttuitamoMa eft. * Dottor of Bedlam. THE SIXTH EPISTLE OFTHE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE. OT to admire, is all the Art I know, " To make men happy, and to keep them fo." [Plain Truth, dear MURRAY, needs no flow'rs of So take it in the very words off Creech.] (fpeech,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...fhare, tidete kb a" the°ffi«s P hofe tranflation of Horace Ae P Jt STL E- -.yf, To Mr. MURRAY. OT to Admire, is all the Art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them fo." (Plain Truth, dear MURRAY, needs BO flow'rs of fpeech, So take it in the very words of Creech.)... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...careful to correct the loofe morals, and abfurd divinity of hi* Origin al. EPISTLE VI. To Mr. MURRAY. OT to admire, is all the Art I know, TO make men happy, and to keep them fo." (Plain Truth, dear MURRAY, needs no flow'rs of fpeech, So take it in the very words of Creech.)... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...lines are taken. P. VER. 6. flan that rife and fall,] The original is, EPISTLE VI. To Mr. MURRAY. , to admire, is all the Art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them fo." (Plain Truth, dear MURRAY, needs no flow'rs of fpeech, So take it in the very words of Creech.)... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1783 - 508 pages
...Jmirari ; bur, faid Qa . . • Mr. Mr. Hill, if we take our Englifh Poet's translation of tliefe words, Not to admire is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them fo, there would hardly be an happy perfon to be found, as lie fuppofed there was not an individual... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 pages
...demi-god ? THE THE SIXTH EPISTLE of the FIRST BOOK OF HORACE. N , -m EPISTLE VI. To Mr. MURRAY. *' "^ ОТ to admire, is all the art I know, " To make men happy, and to keep them fo." (Plain truth, dear MURR A y, * needs no flow'rs of fpeech, So take it in the very words of Creech)... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 pages
...Fear, had any fhare : fo he fupported his title to it by all the offices of true Friendfhip. " -KJ OT to admire, is all the Art I know, " •».^' To make men happy, and to keep them fo." (Plain Truth, dear MURRAY, needs no flowers of fpeech, So take it in the very words of Creech.)... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1784 - 316 pages
...kind. The paffion of love never interrupted his tranquillity ; and if, as Mr. Creech fays after Horace, Not to admire is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them fo ; Mr. Pickle was undoubtedly pone-fled of that invaluable fecret ; at leaft, he was never known... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...at one time, and had his house burned down, by th.e mot). Hls valuable library was thus destroyed, (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech. So take it in the very words of Creech.1) This vault of air, this congregated ball. Self-centred sun, and stars that rise and fall,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...ii. 393, where Johnson says : — ' A judge may be a farmer, but he is not to geld his own pigs.' * ' Not to admire is all the art I know To make men happy and to keep them so.' Pope, Imitations of Horace, Epistles, i. vi. 1. That August 26.] The influence of wealth. 127 That... | |
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NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.' Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech. 
