| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 páginas
...parson] Some lines in this Epistle to Arbuthnot had been used in a letter to Thomson when he was in Italy A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who...there, who lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd...there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'uam, and in humble strain Apply to me... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 páginas
...walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me, just at dinner-time. PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES. 261 A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? Ta there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 páginas
...dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk fore-Joom'd or shunn'd the meditated blow : 350 desperate charcoal round his darken'!) walls All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 páginas
...the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd...there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,... | |
| 1828 - 346 páginas
...has sometimes proved fatal ; yet for mediocrity we make but small allowance. If a dunce — " Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross," will print his nonsense, he has nobody to blame but himself, if the public is made merry at his expense... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 páginas
...immoderate engrossments of power and favour by no other tenure than presumption. Id. A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Pope. From the letters that passed between him and Pope, it might be inferred they, with Arbuthnot... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...man of rhyme, Happy to catch me ! — just at dinner time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, 9 Lo, what huge heaps oflittleness around ! The whole...behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ; All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,... | |
| William Godwin - 1831 - 496 páginas
...his Satires, a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross. Every manager of a theatre, and every publishing bookseller of eminence, can produce you in each revolving... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 páginas
...walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk,...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain 21 Apply to... | |
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