 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...held his head : " And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. 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 serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease my life,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 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...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyM. The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - Anecdotes - 1860 - 352 pages
...came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed. 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." Pope's concluding wish — " Oh, friend ! may each domestic buss be thine," was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 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...child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for tli<: numbers came ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobcy'd : The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 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 serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease my life,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 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...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey 'd. 130 The Huse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1847 - 586 pages
...came; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed; 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 could... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1870 - 628 pages
...Pope, addressing him as "the friend of his life," says:— " 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 - 1872 - 192 pages
...let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child,...but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me thro' this long disease, my life, To second, Arbuthnot! thy art and care, And teach, the being you... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 pages
...let me know Great 'Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child,...but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me thro' this long disease, my life, To second, Arbuthnot! thy art and care, And teach, the being you... | |
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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.... 
