 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...Bufo, 1. 227-244. QUOTATIONS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INTEREST. " 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. The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 654 pages
...Bufo, 1. 227-244. QUOTATIONS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INTEREST. " 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. The muse but served to ease some friend, not^wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1889 - 634 pages
...came, I left no 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 through...Arbuthnot ! thy art and care, And teach the being you preserv'd to bear. A. But why then publish? P. Granville the politt And knowing Walsh, would tell me... | |
 | GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL - 1892 - 418 pages
...a few lines earlier he had thus celebrated his friends. '' 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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - English literature - 1892 - 220 pages
...Johnson's " Works," vii. 451. III.— A POET'S DECORATIONS. 109 *' 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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - English literature - 1892 - 220 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1892 - 384 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 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, t... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 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,...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobcy'd ; The muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...his life, Tells us that Cato dearly loved his wife. POPE. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink ? my parents' or my own ? As yet...to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE. Exact Racine and Corneille's noble fire Taught us that France had something to admire. POPE.... | |
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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.... 
