 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...: — ' 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...pituita molesta est. HORACE BOOK I. EPISTLE VI. IMITATED. TO MR. MURRAY. " NOT to admire is all the art I know " To make men happy, and to keep them so." (Plain truth, dear Murray! needs no flow'rs of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech.) ' This... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...odd] A fit of vapours clouds this demigod. 188 1 IMITATED. TO MR. MURRAY. " NOT to admire is all the art I know " To make men happy and to keep them so." (Plain truth, dear Murray! needs no flow 'rs of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech.) This... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...prope res est una, Numici, Solaque quae possit facere & servare beatum.* " Not to admire, is all the art I know, " To make men happy, and to keep them so." Plain truth, dear MuRRAY,t needs no flowers of speech, So take it in the very words of CKEECH.} Who,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...A fit of vapours clouds this demigod. BOOK I. EPISTLE VI. TO MB. MURRAY. ' 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.) This... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...fit of vapours clonds this demigod. BOOK I. EPISTLE VI. To Mr. Murray. ' N°T t0 admire' is a" the art I know, . To make men happy, and to keep them so.' (Plain troth, dear Murray ! needs no flowers of speech So take it in the very words of Creech..) This... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...so he supported his title to it by all the offices of true friendship. -N o T to admire, is all the art I know ' To make men happy, and to keep them so.' (Plata truth, dear Murray ! needs no flow'r* of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech.) This... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...demigod. BOOK I. EPISTLE VI. TO Mil. MURRAY, (Afterwards Earl of Mantfttld.) ' NOT* to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.' lPlain truth, dear Murray ! needs no flowers of So take it in the very words of Creech.) [speech. This... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - Conduct of life - 1808 - 240 pages
...which Pope gives us in " the very " words of Creech," is true ; and that, . " To admire, is all the art I know, " To make men happy and to keep them so." Whenuseand experience prevent our beingsur. prised at any thing, and when, by comparing new things... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - Conduct of life - 1809 - 342 pages
...maxim, which Pope gives us in " the very words of Creech," is true ; and that, " To admire, is all the art I know, " To make men happy and to keep them so." When use and experience prevent our being surprised at any thing, and when> by comparing new things... | |
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NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so. 
