 | American periodicals - 1847 - 610 pages
...dignity and tenderness (of neither of which qualities Dryden had much, or almost any), is all Pope's 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...chiefly the butchers of Newport 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...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 ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I hsp'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 pages
..." cacoethes scribendi"—many whose rueful lamentation has been— " Why did I write ?—what sin, to me unknown, Dipt me in ink, my parents' or my own ?" CHAPTER II. ON THE PETTY JEALOUSIES AND ENVYINGS OF A COUNTRT NEIGHBOURHOOD. let me a ]>of the nei... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 384 pages
...write ? what sin to me unknown ' Bisnop Bou11er, the friend and patron of Amorose Fhilipi. Dipp'd me iu 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ' what sin to me unknown Dipp'd *Xu * @u * lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...know Great Homer died three thousand years ago."17 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. " In the MS.— " For song, for silence some expect a bribe... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...door, Sir, let me see your works and you no more ! Why did I write ? 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 in numbers, for the numbers came : [ left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...J Hli mother WH ranch afflicted with b«hdaettm 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...head : " And when I die, be sure 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... | |
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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. 
