 | Dugald Stewart - 1921 - 660 páginas
...stanza, Pope certainly had no view to the logical talents of the lady w hom he celebrates : " I know a thing that's most uncommon, " (Envy, be silent and...attend) " I know a reasonable woman, " Handsome and witly. yet a friend." Of this reasonable nrnnun, we may venture to conjecture, with some confidence,... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 páginas
...habitual with him, and deserve the praise Swinburne has given them.1 We quote the opening quatrain : I know the thing that's most uncommon ; (Envy, be...reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend. 1 v. Pope's Works, III. 107, note 1 ; IV, 448, note 1 ; and v. infra. Vol. II. 1 " Pope's little pearl... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 páginas
...unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. On a Certain Lady at Court I know the thing that's most uncommon, (Envy, be silent,...passion, aw'd by rumour, Not grave through pride, or gay through folly, An equal mixture of good humour, And sensible soft melancholy. " Has she no faults... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 páginas
...To make a third, she joined the former twoir^B. , . Jokn ON A CERTAIN LADY AT I KNOW a thing that 's most uncommon; (Envy, be silent and attend!) I know...reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend: Lines Written on a Bank-Note Not warp'd by passion, awed by rumour ; Not grave through pride, nor gay... | |
 | 1923 - 872 páginas
...to please. BY A. 0. WRATISLAW, OB, CMG, OBK I THINK it was an eighteenthcentury poet who wrote — "I know the thing that's most uncommon (Envy, be silent and attend), I know a reasonable woman," but I consider that I went one better than the bard, in that I once discovered an honest Turkish official,... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 páginas
...leads these worshippers to love song. Nevertheless, or its kind, Pope's little lyric is exquisite : " I know the thing that's most uncommon ; (Envy, be...reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend. Not warped by passion, awed by rumour, Not grave through pride, or gay through folly, An equal mixture... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1924 - 356 páginas
...her virtues, which he celebrated in the wellknown verses, " To a certain Lady at Court " : " I know a thing that's most uncommon (Envy, be silent, and attend...reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend. ALEXANDER POPE. After the portrait by William Hoart. [To f act p, n>. " Nor warp'd by passion, aw'd... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 páginas
...Tomb, And wake to Raptures in a Life to come ! Miscellanies, iii, 1728 67 On a Certain Lady at Court KNOW the thing that's most uncommon; (Envy be silent...Friend. Not warp'd by Passion, aw'd by Rumour, Not grave thro' Pride, or gay thro' Folly, An equal Mixture of good Humour, And sensible soft Melancholy. "9... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1926 - 264 páginas
...'tis your will, and not your art Can kill or save your lover. ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT. I know a thing that's most uncommon ; (Envy be silent, and...reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend. Not warped by passion, awed by rumour ; Not grave through pride, nor gay through folly ; An equal mixture... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1927 - 358 páginas
...Chloe dies." As against these lines may be quoted Pope's verses : " ON A CERTAIN LADY (AT COURT " O know the thing that's most uncommon; (Envy be silent,..." Not warp'd by Passion, aw'd by Rumour, Not grave thro* Pride, or gay through Folly, An equal mixture of good humour, And sensible soft Melancholy. "... | |
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Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear. 
