| George Croly - 1854 - 426 Seiten
...laws, Imputes to me and my damned works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The iV' irlil had wanted many an idle song, POPE. What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...laws, Imputes to me and my danm'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which...not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove 1 Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or lore 1... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 Seiten
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which...not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ?... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...damned works the cause '• Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, ai;d Pope. Friend to my life! (which, did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A... | |
| George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1856 - 640 Seiten
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend — " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to... | |
| Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 362 Seiten
...occurs in Pope's " Prologue to the Satires," where, speaking of Dr. Arbuthnot, he says:— " Friend of my life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song)." The thought in the second line being adopted from this couplet in Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel:"—... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1857 - 524 Seiten
...equal **k«y and felicity he adopted it, in addressing hie friend DrArtwthnot, 'Fnend of my life Î which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song ! has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, writlea in ihe taste of the times, and he there... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 Seiten
...when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it in addressing his friend Dr. Arbuthnot. Friend of my life ; which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle tongl Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the times, and he... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 Seiten
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, (which...not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) "WTiat drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 Seiten
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which...not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ?... | |
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