 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...who will not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, 3i And to be grave exceeds all pow'rof face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, 39 This saving counsel, ' Keep your piece nine years.' Nine years ! cries he, who, high in Drury Lane,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...wretched 1! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To langh, were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit...last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, ' Kec p your piece nine years.* ' Nine years !' crirs he, who, high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...will not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of .face. With honest anguish and an aching head, And drop at...in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, ' Keep your peace cine years.' ' Nine years !' cries be, who, high in Drury Lane, Iiidl'd by soft zephyri through... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...and who will not lie. To langh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all pow'r of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...This saving counsel, 'Keep your piece nine years.* * Nine years !* cries he, who, high in Drury-lane. Luil'd by soft aephyrs through the broken pane,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power efface : I sit w ith sad civility, I read With lionot anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling eara, Tbis saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he, who high iu Drurylane,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...wretched 1 ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit...aching head ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, 39 'iliis saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." " Nine years !" eries he, who high in Drury-lane,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want or goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit...civility ; I read With honest anguish, and an aching bead ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, 39 This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years."... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - History - 1811 - 394 pages
...fine-spun theories into lumber, little better than nonsense. However, like the rest of my comitrymen, •with sad civility, I read, With honest anguish and an aching head. To counteract the constitutionalists, the disaffected to the revolution, were invited to fall into... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...friendship worse ; To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r of face. I sit with sad civility, I read, With honest...This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he, who high in Drury-lane, 41 Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1813 - 596 pages
...has nothing to do with the subject. J Mere assertion again — mere bold, impudent assertion. § " I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish,...in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, 'keep your peace nine years.' " WC REVIEW OF LITERATURE. ART. II. — An Essay towards a Theory of Apparitions.... | |
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And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, 'Keep your piece nine years. 
