 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 524 páginas
...his head ;' 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 Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own 1 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father disobey 'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Port. This plain floor. Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can, Here lies a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...I left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father disobcy'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, caa say mote Than many a braver marble can, — Here lies... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or labour of the brain. F. Liwis. 1 left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father disobey'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPI. This... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 133 páginas
...me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown )ipp'd ood-nature is her scorn, When 'tis by that alone she can be borne t lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; left no calling for this idle trade, <o duty broke, no father... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828
...his head ;' 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, Dipp'd me in...fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers tame ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey 'd : The muse but served... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828
...twice as tall ; But foes like these. — P. One flatterer's worse than nil. I lisp'd in numbers tor the numbers came ; I left no calling for this idle...No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wi To help me through this long disease, my life, To second, Arbuthnot... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829
...part, the words seem spontaneously to arrange themselves in the most musical numbers. " While still a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came." This facility of versification, it is true, may be, and prob* Fn Elegiac poetry, the recurrence of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 442 páginas
...held his head;' And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why ? At yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 1 Ii*p'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates Rogé - 1832 - 882 páginas
...unknown Dipped me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed. The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
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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... 
