 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 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....and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 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....ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped ; best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...plague remove "i Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and tied down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh, were want... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 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 wretched II Who can't be silent, and who will not lye: To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 196 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 wretched I1 Who can't be silent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 pages
...plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 pages
...this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and tied down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie: To laugh were want of... | |
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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? 
