| Isaac Disraeli - 1866 - 570 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 songt Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the times, and he... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 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 ? 30 A dire... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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... | |
| 1867 - 664 páginas
...Dover-street. Pope dedicated to him the prologue to his satires, and thus gracefully mentions him : — "Friend to my life (which did not you prolong!, The world had wanted many an idle song." The concluding stanzas are so full of tenderness that I venture to give them :— " Oh ! friend, may... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1868 - 384 páginas
...Republican court so memorably attractive. DOCTORS. ' Throw physic to the dogs.' MACEETH. ' Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song.' POPE. ||N the moving panoramas of cities are to be seen certain vehicles of all degrees of locomotive... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 páginas
...damn'd works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, i 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? 30 A dire... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 páginas
...works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 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 dilemma... | |
| Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 páginas
...works the cause : 25 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? 3° Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 páginas
...works the cause. Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 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? 30 A dire... | |
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