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 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. I left... Maro; Or, Poetic Irritability. In Four Cantos - Página 10de Samuel Bailey - 1845 - 85 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 páginas
...you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. 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 disobey'd : The Muse but serv'd to... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 páginas
...thousand years ago. Why did I write .' 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 tli<: numbers came ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobcy'd : The... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...evening in. COWPER.— The Task, Book IV. Line 36. Now up, now down, as bucket in a well. NUMBERS.— As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE.— Prol. to Sat. To Arbuthnot, Line 127. NUNNERY.—Get thee to a nunnery. SHARSPERE. — Hamlet,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 páginas
...thousand years ago. Why did I write ? 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 disobey'd : The Muse but serv'd to... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 páginas
...thousand years ago. Why did I write ? 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 disobey 'd. 130 The Huse but served... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...fame ? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, e'en before our death. Pope, EMiv 237. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Pope, Sat.Pi-U. 1 27. Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call : She comes unlocked for, if she... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1870 - 628 páginas
...life," says:— " Why did I write? 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 disobey'd. The muse but served to ease... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 168 páginas
...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. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. 130 The muse but serv'd... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 páginas
...headache.. "Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 135 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 disobey'd. iso The Muse but served... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 páginas
...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. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. 130 The muse but serv'd... | |
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