 | 1809 - 402 pages
...paper scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? AH fly to Twit'nam, and in hnmble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur,...whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and mydamn'd works the cause ; Poor L'ornus sees his frantic wife dope ; And curses wit, and poetry, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'ratecharcoal round hisdirkcn'd walls? All fly to Twil'nam, y and night : Since ev'ry man who lives is born to die, And norse can boast sincere felicity, lawi. Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause; Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope ; And curses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 548 pages
...scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkcn'd walls? All fly to Twit'nam, and m humble rtra'm 21 Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose...Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wii, and poetry, and Pope. ' Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong. The world had wanted many... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd nails? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain 2[ Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the law*, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Ciimus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 582 pages
...usually called Duke Disney. JV. 1 This person is mentioned in Pope's Epistle to Arbuthnot, ver. 23. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me, and my danm'd works, the cause. I see two lovely sisters, hand In hand, The fair-hair'd Martha, and Teresa... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain 2 1 Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose...the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, ^5 And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which, did not you prolong, The world... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...from ink and paper, scrawl] With desperate charcoal round his darkcn'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, 20 you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop of nostrum can this plague remove?... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain, Apply to me, to keep them mad...and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop of nostrum can this plague remove?... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them mad...poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...him talk learnedly, when I was once introduced to him by my friend Mr. W. Collins. TO THE SATIRES. 11 Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes...the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world... | |
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TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the Laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. 
