...languishing in bed, ' Just so immortal Maro held his head :' And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did...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 ; To second, Arbuthuot...

...languishing in bed, i Just so immortal Maro held his head ;' And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did...me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own 1 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling...

...bed, " Just so immortal Maro held his head;" And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer dy'd or Saint Paul, Indulge my eandour, and grow all to...native moderation slide, And win my way by yielding ehild, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers eame. I left no ealling for this...

...languishing in bed, 'Just .«o immortal Maro held his head ;' And when I die, be sure you let me know . Great Homer died three thousand years ago, Why did...fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers tame ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey 'd : The muse but served...

...part, the words seem spontaneously to arrange themselves in the most musical numbers. " While still a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came." This facility of versification, it is true, may be, and prob* Fn Elegiac poetry, the recurrence of...

...languishing in bed, •Ji.it w> immortal Maro held his head;' And when I die, be sure you let me know ? At yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 1 Ii*p'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling...

...languishing in bed, " Just so immortal Maro held his head : " 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 Dipped me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers,...

...Cowley, Milton, Lope de Vegas, Pope, Watts, and many others. Pope says of himself— " While still a child, nor yet A fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came." Gray has delightfully described the openings of poetic genius— ." For oft before his infant eye would...

....reading, writing, and studying, being said to do him harm ; he might answer Mr. Potion thus : — "Why did I write'! what sin to me unknown, Dipp'd me in ink ? my Parents 1 or my own ? As yet.a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers for the numbers came: I left...

...countryman resumed his plough. XXVII. PAINS AND PENALTIES OF AUTHORSHIP. Scribimus indocti doctiquc. HoR. Why did I write ? What sin, to me unknown, Dipp'd me in ink, — my parents' or my own ? PoPE. "TO THE KEEPER OF THE CABINET. " So, Mr Keeper, the dye is cast, and you are fairly enlisted...