 Oh let me live my own, and die so too! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.  The Works of Alexander Pope Esq - Page 21by Alexander Pope - 1751 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...have eyes upon him, and hU affaire* come to me on the wind : where is he now? Shakxp. Ant.tf Cleop. I was not born for courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and suy my prayers. Pope. A good acquaintance with method will greatly assist every one, in ranging, disposing,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...what books I ploasc : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. 1 Due to stern Pallas, and Pelidee* spear : say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be olive or dead. Why am I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...what books I please : Above a patron, though I condescend 265 Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...enough to live quite at our ease : when I desire more than that, may I lose what I have 1 " — E.] 2 " I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead." TO SIR... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...read what books I please : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs : I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...to live quite at our ease : when I desire more than that, may I lose what I have ! " — E.] 2 " 1 was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead." Pope, Prologue... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...read what books I please : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. fore haled, therefore so beset With fbes, for daring single to l>e just, say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head. Nor know, if Dennis be olive or dead. Why am... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...was not born for courts or great affairs : t pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep uch he laughs, nor recks the storm that blows Without, and rattl Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light? Heavens ! was I born for nothing but to write 7 Has life... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...what books I please : Above a patron, tho' I condescend 265 Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for Courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
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