 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
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 Seiten
...read what books I please : Above a patron, though 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 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. Why am I askld what nest shall see the light ? Heavens ! was I born for nothing but to write ? Has... | |
 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...read what books I please : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. awakensH * say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 Seiten
...he disliked Kings?"3" :" Swift to Mrs. Ciesar, July 30, 1733. (Scott's Stdft, xviii. 151, 2nd ed.) 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. Poi'E: Epistle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 Seiten
...what books I please : Above a patron, though I condescend 265 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.33 270 Why... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...read what books I please : Above a patron, though 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. 270 Why... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 Seiten
...I please : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. t,' , ..** " I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say ray prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...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 asked what next shall see the light \ Heavens ! was 1 born for nothing but to write ? Has... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1857 - 552 Seiten
...author of an Essay on Pope's Odyssey, Polymetis, &c. —WALPOLE. See vol. ip 30.—CUNNINGHAM. 8 " 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 Seiten
...read what books I please ; Above a patron, though 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... | |
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