 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...Poetical Recreations. The author of these very candidly informs us, that he is " A clerk foredoomM his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." Rushton's Poems deserve more than ordinary attention, not only from the melancholy circumstance of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-raus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when be should engross? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...just at diuner-time. t Is there a parson, mnch bemus'd in beer, A mandlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who...desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly toTwit'nam, and in humble straU Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...just at diuner-time. • Is there a parson much be-mus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when be should engross ? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'ratecharcoal round hisdirkcn'd walls? All fly to Twil'nam, y and night : Since ev'ry man who lives is born to die, And norse can boast sincere felicity, lawi. Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause; Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope ; And curses... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A dirk, rorcdoora'd his father's soul to cross, Win pens a stanza when he should engross? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? AH fly to Twit'nam, and in hnmble strain Apply to me,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd nails? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain 2[ Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the law*, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Ciimus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bcmus'd in beer, A maudlm poetess, a rhyming peer, A cl< rk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engro«s ? Is there! who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkcn'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...instances. VOI.. III. 42 Is there a parson much be-mus'd in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain 2 1 Apply to... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 678 pages
...us in hoping that he may in time write better. From one of his sonnets it appears that he is " Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." This information is conveyed in the following beautiful lines, with which we shall gratify our readers... | |
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A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross? 
