 | American literature - 1853 - 710 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 on Idle song ;— Garth ministering to Johnson, and Rush philosophizing with Dr. Franklin ; Bell's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : 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 ? B Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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 did not you prolong, The iV' irlil had wanted many an idle song, POPE. What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...laws, Imputes to me and my danm'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 1 Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or lore 1... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 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 ?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...damned works the cause '• Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, ai;d Pope. 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? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Continuing education - 1856 - 640 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 Hegart Breen - English language - 1857 - 364 pages
...occurs in Pope's " Prologue to the Satires," where, speaking of Dr. Arbuthnot, he says:— " Friend of my life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song)." The thought in the second line being adopted from this couplet in Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel:"—... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1857 - 524 pages
...equal **k«y and felicity he adopted it, in addressing hie friend DrArtwthnot, 'Fnend of my life Î which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song ! has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, writlea in ihe taste of the times, and he there... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1858 - 574 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 tongl Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the times, and he... | |
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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? 
