 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 Seiten
...countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. (Longfellow. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt' 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. (Pope. PRAYER. Father of life and light ! Thou Good Supreme... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 Seiten
...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 a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 Seiten
...three thousand years ago. Why did I write? What sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, — my parents',6 or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers,7 for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 Seiten
...three thousand years ago. Why did I write? What sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, — my parents',6 or my own? •As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers,7 for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Pott - 1891 - 432 Seiten
...without art, and we can well imagine him saying to himself in after years : " Why did I write 1 What sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own 1 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 1 lisped in numbers, and the numbers came." There is not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1885 - 72 Seiten
...let me know Great Homer died 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, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL - 1892 - 418 Seiten
...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 a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 Seiten
...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 a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 Seiten
...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. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
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Dipt 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. 
