 | Francis Sylvester Mahony - 1860 - 650 páginas
...magazines. Sad abortions ! on which even you, 0 Queen, sometimes take compassion, infusing into them a life " Which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." To return to his conversational powers : he did not waste them on the generality of folks, for he despised... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 páginas
...life. The charming couplet to his doctor, Dr. Arbuthnot, is an example of what I mean : Friend of that life which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song has exquisite feeling in it. The same may be said of the referen • to Pope's mother in one of the... | |
 | Francis Mahony - 1860 - 654 páginas
...Sad abortions ! on which even you, O Queen, sometimes take compassion, infusing into them a liib " Which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." To return to his conversational powers : he did not waste them on the generality of folks, for he di-spisod... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 224 páginas
...silver shafts resound. 30. 0 Thou my lips inspire, Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire. 31. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong. The world had wanted many an idle song. 82. So well-hred spaniels civilly delight In mumhling of the game they dare not hite. 83. Him portioned... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 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... | |
 | Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - 1864 - 504 páginas
...limbs and to preserve these ejes.' In another poem, addressing Dr. Arbuthnot, he says : " ' Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song.' When a country is invaded by a fatal epidemic, when " 'the blessed teals That close the pestilence... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Line 15, Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Line 27. Obliged by hunger and request of friends. Line 44. Fired that the house rejects him, " 'sdeath... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 páginas
...him his " stannch and inestimable friend," and on a long prior occasion thus greets him : " Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an Idle song." \ He was naturally proud of being a clansman of the Clan-Campbells: Lady Charlotte Campbell (sister... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 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 Chostcrfk-ld, on being desired to write... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1866 - 388 páginas
...our Republican court so memorably attractive. DOCTORS. Throw physic to the dogs. MACBETH. Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. POPE. the moving panoramas of cities are to be seen certain vehicles of all degrees of locomotive beauty... | |
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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? 
