 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
 | 1878 - 446 Seiten
...read what books I please: Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. 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. Why am I... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 Seiten
...read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. 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. Why am I... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 Seiten
...read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. 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. Why am I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 Seiten
...read what books I please: Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs; 4 Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 Seiten
...read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. 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. Why am I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 196 Seiten
...read what books I please : Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. 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. 270 Why... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 572 Seiten
...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.4 2:0 Why am I asked what next shall see the light ? Heavens ! was I born for nothing but to write... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 608 Seiten
...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.4 ::n "Why am I asked what next shall see the light? Heavens ! was I born for nothing but to write... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 Seiten
...From which all heavenly virtues shoot. MOORE — Loves of the Angels. Third Angel's Story. St. 11. e II. Sc. Vi Song. 6 It is better to poyson hir with the sweet bait of say my pray'rs. POPE— Prologue to Satires. L. 268. 7 Humility is to make a right estimate of one's... | |
 | Franz Blei - 1923 - 554 Seiten
...kommentieren imstande ist. In seinem schönsten Gedichte, der Epistel an Dr. Arbuthnot, sagt er von sich : „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." Für sein... | |
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