 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 páginas
...danm'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove 1 Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or lore 1 so A dire... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1856 - 640 páginas
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend — " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to write some... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 362 páginas
...occurs in Pope's " Prologue to the Satires," where, speaking of Dr. Arbuthnot, he says:— " Friend of my life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song)." The thought in the second line being adopted from this couplet in Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel:"—... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1857 - 524 páginas
...equal **k«y and felicity he adopted it, in addressing hie friend DrArtwthnot, 'Fnend of my life Î which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song ! has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, writlea in ihe taste of the times, and he there says... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 páginas
...when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it in addressing his friend Dr. Arbuthnot. Friend of my life ; which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle tongl Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the times, and he... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 páginas
...damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) "WTiat drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 páginas
...darkened walls ? All fly to Twickenham,* and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain. 3. Friend to my life, which, did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song, What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? O, dire... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 páginas
...damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 578 páginas
...when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it in addressing his friend Dr. Arbuthnot. Friend of my life ; which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many iin idle song! Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the times,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 páginas
...and Achitop&ct. POPE adopts similar language in addressing his friend Dr. Arbuthnot : — Fricnd of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. For trnth has snch a faco and such a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen. — DHYDEN. Vice is... | |
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Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? 
