 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? 3o A dire dilemmal either way I 'm sped; hich our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surpris tied down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh were want of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1916 - 160 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... | |
 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...plague remove? Or which must end me, a Fool's wrath or love? 3 ° A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped. m Yield them love, amusement, sympathy. 2 ° "And with joy the tied down to judge, 3 how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh, were want... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 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, 35 And to be grave, exceeds... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 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; 3. The Dog-star rages] Sirius reappears in late summer, the customary... | |
 | Brittany (France) - 1898 - 788 pages
...plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath, or love? A dire dilemma! either way l'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... | |
 | Bruce Redford - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 272 pages
...famous of Pope's imitations of Horace, the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, which Gray had read and admired:30 Seiz'd 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... | |
 | Dennis Todd - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 366 pages
...like those of his enemies — nothing like those motives which were supposed to drive the deformed: Seiz'd 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 - 1926 - 312 pages
...plague remove? Or which must end me, a Fool's wrath or love? 3o 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, 35 And to be grave, exceeds... | |
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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? 
