 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...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 disobey'd : The Musu but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...dy'd— — In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or labour of the brain. 1 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. OvID.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 416 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or labour of the brain. F. LEWIS. I 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. POPE.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to Fauie, 1 lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd ; 130 The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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 disobey'd. The muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 448 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or labour of the brain. F. LEWIS. I 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, Porn.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...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 disobey'd: The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife; To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 414 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or labour of the brain. F. LEWIS. I 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. POPE.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to Fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. lore of courts to numerous ills betray'd. Oh had I rather unadm disobcy'd ; The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 422 pages
...dy'd In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or kbour of the brain. P. LEWIS. I 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.—... | |
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And, when I die, be sure you 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? 
