 | Francis Mahony - French poetry - 1836 - 696 pages
...mao-azines. Sad abortions ! on which even you, O Queen sometimes take compassion, infusing into them a life " Which did not you prolong, * The world had wanted many an idle song." To return to his conversational powers : he did n waste them on the generality of folks, for... | |
 | Johann Sporschil - English language - 1838 - 510 pages
...boppclre SBeife in einen п'ф tigcn umgereonbelt roerbcn. 2)ке gilt oon meíjrm bet folgenben @á|c. which did not you prolong , . the world had wanted many an idle song. The innovation in the military system was quickly followed -by another, which the custom of employing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses U R X!R UNN song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove Î Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ?... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pages
...had he been invited. Be that as it will. I only done one exercise. His arguments were what follow. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Poverty turns our thoughts too much on the supplying our wants, and riches on the enjoying our... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Medicine - 1839 - 398 pages
...there is no hope of lucre."* * Life of Sir S. Garth. Pope, in his epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, says, " Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." Dryden, in his " Postscript " to the translation of Virgil, pays a high compliment to his own... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 678 pages
...expressed himself twice with generous warmth in grateful acknowledgment of the skill of his friend : — « Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song)." And, a little further on, he pathetically sings, — " The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 pages
...Imputes to me and my clamn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And enrses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong. The world had wanted manv an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...would do something in his sempstress' praise — Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 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?... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Beauty, Personal - 1847 - 400 pages
...gratitude. If it had not been for Arbuthnot, posterity might have been deprived of a great deal of Pope. " Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song ;" says he, in his Epistle to the Doctor. And Dryden, in the " Postscript" to his translation... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 638 pages
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd 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 ?... | |
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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? 
