 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey M ; The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd: The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life; To... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...NOTES. TO THE SATIRES. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey 'd. 130 The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife,...ARBUTHNOT ! thy Art and Care, And teach, the Being you preserv'd, to bear. 134 A. But why then publish ? P. Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...early life, mentioned in I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey 'd. 130 The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife,...ARBUTHNOT ! thy Art and Care, And teach, the Being you preserved, to bear. 134 A. But why then publish ? P. Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...satire of the first book. And Boileau, VOL. IV. c Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child,...to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. NOTES. in his tenth epistle, has done the same in giving many amusing particulars of his father, family,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipp'd me in ink ? my parents', or my own ? As yet...duty broke, no father disobey'd. 130 The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life; To second, ARBTJTHNOT... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown es! The -/ : The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease, my life... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents' or my own ? As yet a...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 pages
...you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey 'd. The Muse but scrv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me thro' this long disease,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipp'd me in ink ? my parents', or my own ? As yet...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey 'd. 130 The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
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And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.... 
