 Oh let me live my own, and die so too! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.  The Works of Alexander Pope Esq - Seite 21von Alexander Pope - 1751 - 341 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Harmon - 1992 - 1176 Seiten
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 | Alexander Pope - 1993 - 776 Seiten
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 | Patrick Deane - 1994 - 270 Seiten
...voice," which Auden so admired in Pope (Forewords and Afterwords 109), speaks clearly in the lines: I was not born for Courts or great Affairs, I pay my Debts, believe, and say my Pray'rs, Can sleep without a Poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. (606) That... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1994 - 114 Seiten
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 | Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 296 Seiten
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 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 Seiten
...antiquaries, who frequendy exhibit the headless trunks and terms of statues, for Plato, Homer, Pindar, &c. I was not born for courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
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