 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...print. t. POPE — Second Book of Horace. Satire IL 97. 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. 1. POP* — Prologue to Satires. L. 125. With him most authors steal their works, or buy ; Garth did... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 642 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 l... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 596 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. . . . O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no unpleasant melancholy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...writing, c. D. p.] 1. 32. that he " llsp'd in numbers." " 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 thro' this long disease, my Life, To... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...me know Great Homer dy'd 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, ARBUTHNOTlthy Art and Care, And teach, the Being you preserv'd,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OBSV; OxBoLi; PoE; PoEL-3; SCV 13 Why did I write? what sin to me unknown 2; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-2; OBD; OBEY; OBNC; PoE; PoRA;...WGRP; WiR; WPE What Are Heavy? 30 What are heavy? 14 The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed. 130 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... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 412 pages
...in the writer's well to a pathological infantile ictus: 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. (125-8) Unlike what infects the decentred, situational selves of Atticus, Sporus, and the rest, the... | |
 | 19?? - 918 pages
...DrArbuthnot, gave this answer: Why did I write? What sin to use unknown Dipt me in Ink, my Parent's, or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a Fool to Fame,...this idle trade, No Duty broke, no Father dis-obey'd. The Muse but serv'd to ease some Friend, not Wife To help me thro' this long Disease, my life. LEB... | |
 | John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 322 pages
...himself as a natural artist subject only to timeless truth: 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 . . . Not Fortune's Worshipper, nor Fashion's Fool, Nor Lucre's Madman, nor Ambition's Tool, Not proud,... | |
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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.... 
