 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; .vj,! to be grave, exceeds all power of rson more. As one who long in populous city pent,...breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1854 - 384 pages
...the Romish Church is an outrage on nature, and language cannot express its evils." CHAPTER XXIII. " I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish and an aching head." — POPE. To Lady Edith Tremorne all the withered joys and hopes of her past life had been like autumn... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...who will not lie: To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility; I read With honest...This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." " Xine years ! " cries he, who high ha Drury-lane, Lulled by soft zephyrs through the broken pane,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. 1 sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish...' Nine years !' cries he, who, high in Drury Lane, Lulled by soft zephyrs through the broken pane. Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before term ends, Obliged... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...saving counsel, — " Keep your piece nine years." 40 "Nine years!" cries he, who, high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane,... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...mastery over the town, threw out for the instant needs and pressing necessities of less fortunate men. " Keep your piece nine years." " Nine years ! " cries...Lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Bhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obliged by hunger and request of friends, t Yet neither... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...mastery over the town, threw out for the instant needs and pressing necessities of less fortunate men. " Keep your piece nine years." " Nine years ! " cries he, who, high in Drury Lane, Lnll'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obliged... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...poetasters. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I, Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish and an aching head. But though "the bard more fat than bard beseems" was restive under her ladyship's " poetical operations,"... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pages
...mastery over the town, threw out for the instant needs and pressing necessities of less fortunate men. "Keep your piece nine years." "Nine years !" cries he, who, high in Drury-lane, LulPd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...This saving counsel, ' Keep your piece nine years.' <o 1 ' Mint : ' a place to which insolvent debtors retired, to enjoy an illegal protection, which they... | |
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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, 
