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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on ... - Page 233
by Samuel Johnson - 1781
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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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The Classical Journal, Volume 26

1822 - 428 pages
...8' au irpoefShefya; O.VTOL w a/iiporepoif artvotXTO; icov xctt Of Compare Pope's Epitaph on Fenton : Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear. air nit." Is this a genuine anecdote, or a copy of similar storiea in ancient writers ? Ib. p. 234....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science m the vale of peace. fc'almly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd heaven that he Hv'd, and that he died. The first couplet of this epitaph...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in tile vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and...regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he liv'd, and that he died. The first couplet of this epitaph...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Original Delineations, Topographical ...

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1813 - 696 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 lived, and that he dy'd." The first publication by...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 13, Part 2

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1813 - 936 pages
...friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either lite, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear, From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd heaven . that he liad lived, and that he dy'd." ' The first publication...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 85, Part 1; Volume 117

1815 - 740 pages
...loud praise, and friend to learned ease. Content with Science in the vale of Peace, Calmly he louk'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temperate feast rose *:vtis~ fied, [he died." Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that The mortal remains of...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 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 UVd, and that he dy"d. * The thought was probably borrowed...
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