 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...weep if Atticus were he? 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,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...MILTON— Uonnet VU. Oh let me live my own, and die so too! (To live and die is all I have to do:) the seasons by your shooting corns. a. GAY— Trivia. Bk. I. Line 33. He cobbled and h 7i. POPE— Prologue to Satires. Line 261. Freedom is only in the land of Dreams; And only blooms the... | |
 | Appleton Morgan, Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1891 - 302 pages
...say with Pope : "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." Leonard Welsted, a contemporary of Pope,... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - American literature - 1883 - 302 pages
...KERLE. Oh, be very sure That no man will learn anything at all Unless he first will learn humility. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers. POPE. Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less... | |
 | Patrick Deane - Classicism - 1994 - 270 pages
...voice," which Auden so admired in Pope (Forewords and Afterwords 109), speaks clearly in the lines: I was not born for Courts or 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. (606) That he is... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 300 pages
...Dignity and Ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please. Above a Patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a Minister my Friend: I was not...great Affairs, I pay my Debts, believe, and say my Pray Vs. Can sleep without a Poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. (261—270) It... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...weeping 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: 236. Ridicules the affectation of antiquaries,... | |
 | Catherine Ingrassia, Claudia N. Thomas - Poetry - 2000 - 262 pages
...about the Itch of Verse and Praise" (22324), and untouched by the impulses of the literary marketplace: 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,... | |
 | Catherine Ingrassia, Claudia N. Thomas - Poetry - 2000 - 262 pages
...about the Itch of Verse and Praise" (22324), and untouched by the impulses of the literary marketplace: 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,... | |
 | Joanna Bowen Gillespie - Charleston (S.C.) - 2001 - 372 pages
...succinct: O let me live on my own, and die so too To live and die is all I have to do Maintain a lady's dignity and ease And see what friends and read what books I please." Ideally harmonious relations between husband and wife were the propagandist's most useful metaphor... | |
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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... 
