 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 Seiten
...left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father disobey 'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Port. This plain floor. Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can, Here lies a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 Seiten
...me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown )ipp'd ood-nature is her scorn, When 'tis by that alone she can be borne t lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; left no calling for this idle trade, <o duty broke, no father... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Close - 1833 - 182 Seiten
...— "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 no calling., far this idle trade, No duty, no father disobey'd." — POPS. As Jem. remembered Whipcord, so he did... | |
 | 1833 - 626 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 Seiten
...I left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father disobey'd ; While yet a child, ere t is no very cynical asperity not to — TOT*. —This plain floor, Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can. Here... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 Seiten
...me know Great Humer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown, Dipp'd ts he?' Fourscore thousand pounds ; A pension, or such harness for a slave As 1 H-ip'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; [ left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 320 Seiten
...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 foul to fame, 1 lisp'd iu numhers, for the numhers came ; • / I left no calling for this idle trade,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write f what sin to roe unknown Dipp'd y Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from mom 1 lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. 1 left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no... | |
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Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own' As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame. I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came, I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed. 
