 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through...Arbuthnot ! thy art and care, And teach the being you preserved, to bear. But why then publish * Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...numbers, for the numbers came. 1 left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd ; on our loins, may cover round Those middle parts...this new comer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach u Arbulhnot! thy art and саге, And teach, the being you preserv'd, to bear. But why then publish... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown sumptuous the treat, Parbleu ! I shall have little stomach to eat ; I should ; The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease, my life... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 678 pages
...prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song)." And, a little further on, he pathetically sings, — " 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." In Gay's Epistle to Pope, a welcome from Greece, on the occasion of his having... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own '! As yet a child, nor yet a fuol - ; The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease, my life;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : 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. But why then publish 1 Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 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...idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. 130 NOTES. with his usual humour, is true in tact : " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 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 child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numhers, for the numhers came ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty hroke, no father disohey'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...were chiefly the butchers of Newport Market and Butcher Row. Why did I write 1 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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 384 pages
...write ? what sin to me unknown ' Bisnop Bou11er, the friend and patron of Amorose Fhilipi. Dipp'd me iu ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease my life,... | |
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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.... 
