 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1890 - 364 pages
...end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped ; If foes they write, if Mends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace; And to be grave, exceeds... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1885 - 72 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 tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh, were want... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 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 tied down to judge8, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh, were want... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 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 tied down to judge3, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh, were want... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 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 1 ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - English poetry - 1902 - 432 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 tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 404 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....and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I, Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace; And to be grave, exceeds... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 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 - Catholics - 1906 - 204 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 tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh, were want... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...plague remove ? Or which must end me, a Fool's wrath or love ? A dire delemma! 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... | |
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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? 
