 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...fong) What Drop or Noftrum can this plague remove? Or which muft end me, a Fool's wrath or love ? 30 A dire dilemma ! either way I'm fped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dep.d. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be f:lent, and wj:o will not lie :... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...fong) What Drop or Noftrum can this plague remove ? Or which muft end me, a Fool's wrath or love t A dire dilemma ! either way I'm fped : If foes, they...lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of Face. I fit with fad civility ; I read .With honeft anguifh,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...fong) What Drop or Nojlrum can this plague remove ? Or which mud end me, a Fool's wrath or love ? 30 A dire dilemma ! either way I'm fped, If foes, they...lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r efface. 1 fit with fad civility, I read With honeft angiiiftj,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...fong) What drop or nollrum can this plague remove ? Or which rriuft ert«l me, a fool's wnith or love ? A dire dilemma .'—either way I'm fped : If foes, they write ( if friends, they read me desd. Seiz'd and tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be filent, an8 who will not lie. To... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...Dear Doflor, tell me, is not this a curfe ? Say, is their anger, or their friendfhip worfe ? Sei2'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be filent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grice; 35 And to be grave, exceeds all Power of face.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...A dire dilemma ! cither way I'm fpcd ; If foes, they write ; if friends, they read me dead. Sciz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : Xo laugh, were want of goodncfs and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r of face; 1 fit... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 260 pages
...fong) What Drop or Nojlrum can this plague remove ? Or which mufl end me, a Fool's wrath or love ; A dire dilemma ! either way I'm fped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'dand tied down to judge, how wretched II Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 472 pages
...fong) What Drop or Noftrum can this plague remove? Or which muft end me, a Fool's wrath or love ? 30 A dire dilemma ! either way I'm fped, If foes, they...and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be f1lent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...35 tt Who gain'd no title, and who loft no friend; 70' And to be grave, exceed* all power of face. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be filent, and who will not lie : " 1- nnobled by himfelf, by all approv*o\ " And prais'd, unu: v y'd, by the Mufe he lovV.' EPISTLE... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? 30 A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes they write ; if friends they read me dead. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wreched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace,... | |
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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) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? 
