 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 812 pages
...such lines as these : 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. And we may admit that Pope, in spite of his wig and his stays, his vanities and his affectations, was... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1874 - 412 pages
...such lines as these : Oh, let me live my own, and die so too I (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. And we may admit that Pope, in spite of his wig and his stays, his vanities and his... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...he helped to starve. 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,...books I please: Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs; I pay my debts,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...man, with God he pass'd the days; Pray'r all his business, all his pleasure praise. PARNELL: Hermit. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers. POPE. Nor pray'rs nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain : Nor tears, for ages taught to flow in vain.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 838 pages
...Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh let me live my own, and die so loo! To live and die is all I have to do 7pK 7 ( 7 though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...weeping o'er thy ura I 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,...books I please: Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs; I pay my debts,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 788 pages
...man, with God he pass'd the days; Pray'r all his business, all his pleasure praise. PARNELL: Hermit. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers. POPE. Nor pray'rs nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain : Nor tears, for ages taught to flow in vain.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 532 pages
...urn ! Oh Jet me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do) Maintain a peet'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 - 1879 - 570 pages
...ESm5 (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friendst and read what books- I please; Above a Patron, tho'...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 dead1. 270 Why am I... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1880 - 548 pages
...Joseph Spence, author of an Essay on Pope's Odyssey, Polymetis, 4c. See vol. ip 30.— CUNNINOHAM. * " I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay...my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Jfor know if Dennis be alive or dead." Pope, Prologue to Satirei. — W&IOHT. as many thanks for me... | |
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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... 
