 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 512 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 1... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 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 ?... | |
 | William Beattie - 1850 - 534 pages
...affection on the outside of my heart which much afflicted me. I may well say of Dr. Beattie— ' Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song!— but I beg to remark, that I allude to pain on the outside of my heart. In the inside of my... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend — " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1851 - 520 pages
...when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend Dr Arbuthnot, ' Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an Idle song ! Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in Ihe taste of the times, and he... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend— " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 pages
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend— " Friend of my life! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 450 pages
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend — " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 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 ?... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 706 pages
...Francis, and others. Think of Arbuthnot beside Pope's sick-bed, and the latter's apostrophe — Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an Idle song ; — Garth ministering to Johnson, and Rush philosophizing with Dr. Franklin ; Bell's comments... | |
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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? 
