 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 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...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 217by Alexander Pope - 1807 - 550 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...bed, ' Just so immortal Maro held his head :' And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin...unknown, Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? 126 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'cl in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...creatures! make me sec All that disgrac'd my hetters met in me. 120 And when I die, he 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 niy own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write i what sin to ine unknown Dip'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child,...idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The Musu but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life, To second,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...languishing in bed, ' Just so immortal Maro held his head :* And when I die, be sure you let me knuw Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did...I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came : I left OO calling for this idle trade, Mo duty broke, no father disobey'd : The Hose but serv'd to ease some... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...crooked. ' Hit mother wa* njucu afflicted with headachi. Why did I write ? what sin to me ufiVnown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd ; 130 The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease, my... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...his head for a sign. ' * His father was erouked. ' ' His mother *a* much afflicted with headaelis. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me...parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to Fauie, 1 lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...know, Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 1 25 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 through this long disease, my life, To second, ARBUTHNOT ! thy art and care, And teach, the being you... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 520 pages
...part, the words feem fpontaneoufly to arrange themfelves in the moft mufical numbers. * " While still a child, nor yet a fool to fame, " I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came." This facility of verfification, it is true, may be, and probably is, in moft cafes, only apparent :... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...life, blending ease with dignity, which poets and painters then led. Thus he says to Arbuthnot — " Why did I write ? What sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents' or my own J As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...let mr know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown DippM ; ah ten times happy had I been, If Hampton- Court...courts to numerous ills betray'd. Oh had I rather unadm disobcy'd ; The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease,... | |
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