 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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 105by Alexander Pope - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Austin - Marriage - 1858 - 330 pages
...Perfectly, my Lord." "And very apropos," put in Frank, "if you give the two following lines : — • ' The dog-star rages — nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out/ Poetry has been the order of the day — and I am quite out of the field : Huntingdon glowing with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...P. " SHUT, shut the door, good John !"2 fatigued, I said ; " Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead." The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt...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... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...ARBUTHNOT. SHUT, shut the door, good John ! fatigued I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I 'm dead. The dog-star rages! nay, 'tis past a doubt,...Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each band, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...picture of those years as they affected the literary world. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, 3 All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and Papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. of an alliterative link, identical with the 'raving'... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...maintained: Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All...let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand. They rave, recite, and madden round the land. . . . Is there a Parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin... | |
 | George Lewis Levine, Alan Rauch - English literature - 1987 - 372 pages
...verse was as antithetical to true poetry as madness to sanity, sickness to health. When The dog star rages! Nay, 'tis past a doubt All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out. A cordon sanitaire to protect the healthy was the only answer: Shut, shut the door, good John.27 Other... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 392 pages
...human kind ... Shut, shut the door, good John\ fatigu'd I said, Tye 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.42 When there is no classical precedent for such an opening, Pope is usually less dramatic, and... | |
 | Mary A. Favret - Literary Collections - 2004 - 288 pages
...epistle begins : Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd I said Tye 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.56 At the other end of the century, however, a loosely defined and broadly discursive letter "to... | |
 | Patrick Obrian - Fiction - 1995 - 322 pages
...perfectly lucid. Damn these drips," he said, looking upwards. "I cannot get them to run off outside. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide?...They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, Coming in particularly from the outside as well as the bottom." Tobias lay back, suddenly exhausted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...likeness. 'Shut, shut the door, good John!', fatigued I said, i 'Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.' The dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt,...let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the... | |
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