 | Alexander Graydon - 1822 - 431 páginas
...respects, I could wish had been equally blameless. An early enthusiast in a most unfashionable cause, Some sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents or my own; even before my sentiments could be relished by the generality of the party to which I belonged; and... | |
 | British essayists - 1823
...I left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father disobev'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE. — This plain floor, Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can, Here lies... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823
...left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father rtisobey'il ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE. This plain floor, Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can, Here lies a... | |
 | 1823
...write nonsense in verse, it is in bis situation the most innocuous mode of venting it. He can have " Left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd." Thus he can afford to dispose of a moderate edition (printed but not published,) in presentation copies,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 822 páginas
...his head ;" And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease, my life ; To second, Arbuthnot... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824
...his head : » And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink,...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey 'd. The Muse but scrv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me thro' this long disease,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824
...let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipp'd me in ink ? my parents', or my own ? As yet...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. 130 The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipp'd me in ink ? my parents', or my own ? As yet...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey 'd. 130 The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824
...let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipp'd me in ink ? my parents', or my own ? As yet...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey 'd. 130 The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 562 páginas
...held his head;" And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why our, and grow all to all ; Baek to my native moderation slide, And win my way by yielding ehild, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers eame. I left no ealling for this... | |
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And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came... 
