 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 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,...idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. 130 To second, Arbuthnot! thy art and care, And teach the being you preserv'd to bear. *• But why then... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 pages
...let me know Great Homer died 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,...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 - 1881 - 196 pages
...sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, UI lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. -*^ .' I...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 preserv'd... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 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. A. But why then publish? P. Granville the polite And knowing Walsh, would tell me... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...caxno. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed : The muse but wrved to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through...Arbuthnot ! thy art and care, And teach the being yon preserved, to bear. . . . A man's true merit 'tis not hard to nod ; Bnt each man's secret standard... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 572 pages
...idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed : * The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife,3 To help me through this long disease, my life ; To...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... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 pages
...bound, — My friendship and a prologue and ten pound. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, — my parents' or my own? As yet a child,...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, To... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...thread anew. ». POPE — Proloijue tu Satire. Line 89. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt' me in ink, my parents' or my own ''. As yet a child,...to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. j. POPE — Prohijan to Satire. Line 125. Tis not how well an author says; But 'tis how much, that... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 pages
...national in them, but what is universal. (Longfellow. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt' me in ink, my parents' or my own? As yet a child,...to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. (Pope. PRAYER. Father of life and light ! Thou Good Supreme ! Save me from folly, vanity and vice,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1885 - 68 pages
...me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown 125 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, AKBUTHNOT ! 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.... 
