 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 - Página 21de Alexander Pope - 1751 - 341 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Wood Warter - 1860 - 526 páginas
...I fee a good deal done by the hands of educated men which I cannot approve of, — ' I was not made for courts, or great affairs, I pay my debts, believe, and fay my prayers.' " And fo faying he would leave the room, and take a dozen or more turns on the flabbed pathway... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 páginas
...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. 270 Why... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 páginas
...friend. I was not bom for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs; Can sleep without a Poem in my head; Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead1. 570 Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light? Heav'ns! was I bom for nothing but to write?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 574 páginas
...I was not born for Court or great affairs : I pay my debts, believe, and suy my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead." Another factor in his estimate of his own merit was hw sense of his popularity. Flattered, caressed,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 páginas
...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 pray'rs; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. • 270... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 páginas
...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. 270 Why... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 802 páginas
...are apparently quite justified by the facts. But what are we to say to such a passage as this ? — 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. Admitting... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 páginas
...friend. I was not bom for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs; Can sleep without a Poem in my head ; Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead1. Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light? Heav'ns! was I born for nothing bat to write?... | |
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