I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 113edited by - 1779Full view - About this book
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star rages ! nay, 't is past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide ? They... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, reeite, ? x g~ _> l в z UTT 4 _Ь F /i 9 a o Qm shades can hide '. They pieree my thickets, through my grot they glide, By hind, by water, they renew... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire n each eye, nnd papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades trail hide T They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide , By land, by water, they renew... | |
| Benjamin Lambert - Humor in literature - 1861 - 62 pages
...knocker, say I'm sick, I 'm dead. The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. " What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide ?... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...knocker ; say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star rages ? nay, 'tis past a doubt, All bedlam or Parnassus is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide ? They... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead." The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? «... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...say I'm sick — I'm dead ! " The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt All Bedlam or Parnassus E1 is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide ? They... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...the style refines ! Pope,E.CA\S. The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. Pope,Ep. toArbuthnot, 3. Is there a parson much bemused... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - American poetry - 1928 - 740 pages
...knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land." That they "madden round this land" of forty-eight States,... | |
| 1867 - 420 pages
...'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out j * Fire in each eye and papers in each hand They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me or what shades can hide ? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew... | |
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