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" A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there... "
The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives - Page 154
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 40

John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life,...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dyM. XI. ON MR. GAY,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...Heavenkeptsacred from the proncl and great; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.' Calmly he look'd on either...regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he died.' ON MR. GAY, IN WESTMINSTER...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...sacred from the prond and great : Foe to lond praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life,...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died. ON MR, GAY, In...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with Science in the vale of Peace, Calmly he look'd on either life,...regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfy'd, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. ON MR. GAY, tN WESTMINSTER...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...sacred from the proud and great; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life,...regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died. The first couplet of this...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life,...regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfy'cl, Thank'd Heayen that he liv'd, and that he dy'd. The The first couplet of this...
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The Anonymous, Volume 2

1810 - 286 pages
...from the Proud and Great : ' Foe to loud Praise, and Friend to learned Ease, ' Content with Science in the Vale of Peace : ' Calmly he look'd on either...nothing to regret, or there to fear: ' From Nature's temp'rate Feast rose satisfied; ' Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he died." The three first...
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...from the proud and great. Joe Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace> Calmly he look'd on either life,...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd heav'n that he .had liv'd, and that he died. • POPE. On Sir...
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Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learncd ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life,...here, Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature'i temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died. The first...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...sacred from the proud4 ant great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with Science in the vale of Peace, Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear j From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfy'd, Thanlc'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy'4....
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