 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain, Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and...and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop of nostrum can this plague remove?... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...darken'd walls? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and...you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A dire... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...I heard him talk learnedly, when I was once introduced to him by my friend Mr. W. Collins. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and...the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...learnedly, when I was once introduced to him by my friend Mr. W. Collins. TO THE SATIRES. 11 Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and...the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 402 pages
...Ver. 57. As Arthur grave, &c.] This person is mentioned in the Epistle to Arbuthnot, v. 23 : " Arthur whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me, and my damn'd works, the cause!" Ver. 62. The sweet-tongu'd Murray,] The present Lord Mansfield. bonder I see the cheerful Dutchess... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...to me. Then, from the mint walks forth the man of rhyme— " Happy to catch me just at dinner-time." Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 354 pages
...with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend Dr. Arbuthnot, " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song!" Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the times, and he there... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...d walls i All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, ot a friend to close his eyes. With down-cast looks you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song), What drop or nostrum can this plague remove... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...me to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my dainn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife...you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and...the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had... | |
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And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song... 
