 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...dignity and ease, And sec what fricmls.imd read what boo kslpleast. Above a patron, tho' 1 condescend thro' seas of blooil ; Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying...villains, Who ravaj'd 0 肀 prav'rs; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be. alive or dead. Why am I ask'd... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...weeping o'er thy urn ' Oh ! let me live my own, aad die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books, I please , Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...weeping o'er thy urn. O let me live my own, and die so too .' (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what book* I please. Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...weeping o'er thy um t Oh let melivc my own, and die so too ! 261 (To live and die is all 1 have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a patron, though I condest'end Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not bom for courts or great affairs... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...please : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not liom for courts or great affairs : I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can -I. .•)> without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why am I ask'd what... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...edition ; Give me on Thamcs's banks, in honest ease, To see what friends, 01 read what books I please. Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends,...great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs ; Can sleep without a poem in my head. Nor know, if -Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why am I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...weeping o'er thy orn ! Oh, let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what hooks I plttMi Ahove a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was nut... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :} urst, Rees, Orme & Brown though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. 1 was not born for courts or great affairs... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh let me live my own, and die so too! 261 (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends,...great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs ; Can sleep without a Poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 VARIATIONS.... | |
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Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho... 
