 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 628 pages
...weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh, let me live my own, and die ŤO 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 ploue : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not bom for... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 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 :) hear * though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...o'er thy urn ! 260 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 265 Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...not prais'd for nought, For both the beauty and Ihe wit are bought. Pope, l was not born for eourts, or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers. Pope, There we grow early grey, but never wise ; There form eonneetions, and aequire no friends. T... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...o'er thy urn ! 250 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. t,' , ..** " I was not born for courts... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...o'er thy urn ! 260 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 - 1856 - 512 pages
...weeping o'er thy urri Oh ! let me live my own, and die so too ! (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 condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...author of an Essay on Pope's Odyssey, Polymetis, &c. —WALPOLE. See vol. ip 30.—CUNNINGHAM. 8 " I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts,believe, and say my prayers; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse, and Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn ! 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 - English poetry - 1859 - 506 pages
...friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister mv scene here (except of the celestial machines) lies in the field toward the sea-shore. AUBOBA now ; Gin slcep without a poem in my head, Nor know, :f Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I ask'd what next... | |
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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... 
