 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to Fame, 1 lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. 1 left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd ; The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 páginas
...unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own '! As yet a child, nor yet a fuol to Fame, I lisp'd disobey'd ; The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 páginas
...to Arbuthnot : " Why did I write 1 What sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents' or my own 7 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 páginas
...Arbuthnot: " Why did I write 1 What sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents' or my own 1 At yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers,...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | 1846 - 670 páginas
...sixteen was very nearly as good as it is now." He has said, in his ' Epistle to Arbuthnot :' — " As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed." He told Spence that he had begun writing verses farther back than he could well remember. When he was... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1847 - 634 páginas
...AUTHOR OF " VELASCO, A TKAOEDY," &c. ION ; IN FIVE ACTS BY THOMAS NOON TALFOURD SERGEANT AT LAW. •" I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed." FROM THE AOTHOH'S LATEST EDITION. With the Stage Directions, Descriptions of Costumes, &e. NEW-YORK... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 páginas
...have pursued the study of that fertile literature with such distinguished success."— SoUTHEV.] 1 [" I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd.'1 — POPE.] 9ö who was solicitous for my more essential interests, as well as benevolently... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 páginas
...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 a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 páginas
...and you no more ! Why did I write 1 What sin to me unknown Dipped me in ink, — my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped...disobeyed : The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wi<> To help me through this long Disease, my life, To second, Arbuthnot ! thy an and care, And teach... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 páginas
...Market and Butcher Row. Why did I write 1 what sin to me unknown Dipp'd 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. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
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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... 
