I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the ... - Page 6by Alexander Pope - 1846Full view - About this book
| William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 426 pages
...really fo, will be eafily pardoned, no Man but what has (at leaft, w>? beJieve fo) greater Foibles. What Walls can guard me, or what Shades can hide ? They pierce my Thickets, thro' my Grot they glide, By Land and Water they renew the Charge, .- ^ They flop the Chariot and they... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...knocker, fay I'm lick, I'm dead. The Dog-flat rages ! nay 'tis paft a doubt, All Bedlam, or ParnafTus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand* 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what fliades can hide ?... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...knocker, fay I'm fick, I'm dead. The Dog-ftar rages ! nay 'tis paft a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnaflus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what fhades can hide ?... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...knocker, fay I'm fick, I'm dead. The Dog-ftar rages ! nay 'tis paft a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnaflus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what (hades can hide ?... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...knocker, fey I'm fick, I'm dead, The Dog-ftar rages ! nay "tis paft a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnaflus, is let out : • Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land. NOTES. What walls can guard me, or what madescan hide?... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...knocker, lay I'm fick, I'm dead. The Dog-ftar rages ! nay 'tis paft a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnaffus is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each...madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what (hades can hide? They pieree my thickets, thro' my Grot they glide, % land, by water, they renew the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 pages
...paft a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnaffus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, -J They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what ihades can hide ? They pierce my thickets, thro' my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what fhades can hide ? They pierce my thickets, through my Grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They ftop the chariot, and they board the barge. 10 No place is facred,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 392 pages
...knocker, £ay I'm fick, I'm dead. The Dog-ftar rages ! nay, 'tis paft a doubt, All Bedlam, or ParnafTus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what fhades can hide ?... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...knocker, fay I'm fick, I'm dead ! The dog-ftar rages ! nay, 'tis pad a doubtj All Bedlam or Parnaflus is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land *. Tttis abrupt exordium is animated and dramatic. Our poet, wearied with the impertinence and flander... | |
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