 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1873 - 802 pages
...real man, and which expresses itself in such linos as these : 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 case, And see what friends and read what books I please. and his affectations, was in his way as fair... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1874 - 412 pages
...real man, and which expresses itself in such lines as these : 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 dignity and ease, And see what friends and read what book* I please. And we may admit that Pope, in spite of his... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - English essays - 1874 - 418 pages
...real man, and which expresses itself in such lines as these : 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. And we may admit that Pope, in spite of his... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...kindness in reserve, He helped to bury whom he helped to starve. 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, tho' I condescend Sometimes... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...sole return My verse, and Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh let me live my own, and die so loo! & ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...sole return My verse, and Queensb'ry weeping o'er thy ura I 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, tho' I condescend Sometimes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 532 pages
...sole return My verse, and QOEENSBERRY weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh Jet me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do) Maintain a peet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please . Above a patron, though... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 pages
...is the strangest mixture of honesty and hypocrisy. Let me, he says, 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!" Well, he was independent in his fashion,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 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 poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Authors, English - 1880 - 246 pages
...is the strangest mixture of honesty and hypocrisy. Let me, he says, 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 ! Well, he was independent in his fashion,... | |
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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. 
