 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 páginas
...friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' 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... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 páginas
...From which all heavenly virtues shoot, r. MOORE — Loves of the Angels. Third A ngel's Story. St. 11. this vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. ». SCOTT — say my pray'rs. J. POPE— Prologue to Satires. L. 268. Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...man, with God he pass'd the days ; Pray'r all his business, all his pleasure praise. PARNELL: Hermit. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers. POPE. Nor pray'rs nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain : Nor tears, for ages taught... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 páginas
...friends, and read what books I please; Above a patron, tho' 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. ***** Not... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1898 - 346 páginas
...favourites in a great family.' 4. Pope, Prologue to the Satires (Ep. to Arbuthnot), ll. 267, 268, " I was not born for courts or great affairs: I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs." Gray wrote to Wharton, Aug. 5, 1753, ' Mrs Jonathan told me, you begun your evening... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1901 - 120 páginas
...friends, and read what books 1 please ; K5 Above a patron, tho' 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 pray'rs ; Can sleep without a poem in my head ; n0 Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. Why... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 páginas
...friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' 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... | |
 | 1901 - 530 páginas
...bezeichne und erkläre, er bete fleissig. Ganz anders erscheint der sinn, wenn man den ganzen satz liest: »I was not born for courts or great affairs: I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.« Man wird vom psychologischen Standpunkte aus zugeben müssen, dass die thatsächliche... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - 1902 - 432 páginas
...friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend =65 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 Not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 páginas
...friends, and read what books I piense; Above a Patron, tho' 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. »70 Why... | |
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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, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. 
