Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel,  "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 3
by Alexander Pope - 1835
Full view - About this book

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...honeft anguifh, and an aching head ; And drop at laft, but in unwilling ears, 39 This faving counfel, " Keep your piece nine years/' Nine years ! cries he, who high in Drury-lane, LulTd by foft Zephyrs thro' the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...honeft anguifh, and an aching head ; And drop at laft, but in unwilling ears, 39 This faving counfel, " Keep your piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he, who high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by foft Zephyrs thro' the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...honeft anguifh, and an aching head ; And drop at laft, but in unwilling ears, 39 This faving counfel, " Keep your piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he, who high in Drury-lane» Lull'd by foft Zephyrs thro' the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...hone/1 ang «//?;,] ie undiflembled. And drop at laft, but in unwilling ears, 3 9 This faving counfel, " Keep your piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he, who high in Drury-lane* Lull'd by foft Zephyrs thro' the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before 'term...
Full view - About this book

Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...ferious anguifli and an aching head : Then drop at lait, but in unwilling ears, This faving counfel — " Keep your piece nine years," — " Nine years !-' (cries he, who, high in Drury-Lane, Lull'd by foft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the British Poets, Volume 8

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...horeft anguifh. and an aching head ; And drop at lair, hut in unwilling ear«, 39 Thii faving counfel, " Keep your piece nine years " Nine years cries he, who high in Dtury-lane, X.uli'd by infr zephyrs through the broken pane, Khymcse'er he wakes, and prints before...
Full view - About this book

Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...will not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, 3; And to be grave exceeds all pow'r of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, 39 This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he, who, high in Drury Lane,...
Full view - About this book

Bell's Edition, Volumes 77-78

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, 39 This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years."...cries he, who, high in Drury Lane, Lull'd by soft 2ephyrs thro' the broken pane, Rhimes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Oblig'd by hunger,...
Full view - About this book

The whole poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq., including his translations ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...With honed anguiu, and an aching head; And drop at laft, but iu unwilling cars, This faving council, " Keep your piece nine years." Nine years! cries he, who high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by foft Zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...will not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave exceeds all pow'r of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, 39 This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he who, high in Drury-Lane,...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF