 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1919 - 344 pages
...this body of defeated wits with so fine a charm as in the lines to the genial, much-beloved physician: Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. In comparison with that peaceful bond, of what profit was the long-protracted and in the end... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 906 pages
...laws, Imputes to me and my damned works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which...not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! s & & & & & song) 1 Pope's servant г a hospital for lunatics 3 figuratively the abode of poets 4 a place in which... | |
 | English poetry - 1932 - 1210 pages
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Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? 
