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" Oh let me live my own, and die so too! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease. And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. "
The Works of Alexander Pope: The life [by W.J. Courthope] and index - Page 271
by Alexander Pope - 1889
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...edition ; Give me on Thamcs's banks, in honest ease, To see what friends, 01 read what books I please. Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a patron, tho' I condescend 265 Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs...
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Patronage, Volume 14

Maria Edgeworth - 1833 - 412 pages
...TEMPLEMAN ; J. BAtN; R. MACKtE ; RENSHAW AND RUSH; AND G. AND J. ROBtNSON, LtVERPOOL. 1833. 756332 " Above a patron — though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.' TfR, MRW BRIDGE-STREET. TO THE READER. MY daughter again applies to me for my paternal imprimatur ;...
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Patronage, Volume 4

Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 404 pages
...EDGEWORTH, AUTHOR OF * TALES OF FASHIONABLE LIFE," " BELINDA/'' " LEONORA," &C. IN FOUR vOLUMES. VOL. IV. " Above a Patron, — though I condescend " Sometimes to call a Minister my friend." SECOND EDITION. LONDON: FEINTED FOB J. JOHNSON AND CO. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 1814. ' ,-. PATRONAGE....
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Patronage, Volume 4

Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 412 pages
...OF " TALES OF FASHIONABLE LIFE," " BELINDA," " LEONOBA," &C. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. IV. ''' Without a Patron, — though I condescend '' Sometimes to call a Minister my friend." LONDON; PRINTED FOB J. JOHNSON AND CO. «T. PAUL'S CHUPCH, yy rF. .' . ' 1814. THE NEW YOI.K PUBLIC...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...sole retorn My verse, and Queensheiry weeping o'er thy orn ! Oh, let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a...dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what hooks I plttMi Ahove a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was nut...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...sole return My verse, and Qucensbi-rry weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! urst, Rees, Orme & Brown 1 was not born for courts or great affairs : I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can bleep...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 5

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...sole return My verse, and Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a...Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers; Can sleep without a poem in...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...return My Verse, and QUEENSB'RV weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! 261 (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a...friends, and read what books, I please : Above a Patron, tho' I condescend 265 Sometimes to call a Minister my friend. I was not born for Courts or great affairs...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...sole return My verse, and Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh! let me live my own, and die so too I (To live and die is all I have to do) Maintain a poet's...ease, And see what friends, and read what books, I Above a patron, though I condescend [please ;. Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...sole return My verse, and Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn! Oh, let me live my own, and die so too! 'tis likeliest They had engag'd courts, or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers; Can sleep without a poem in...
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