| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...parents' or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 1 H-ip'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; [ thou art a cit with all thy worth ; But Bug and D*l, their h disobey'd : The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...— In verse spontaneous flowed my native strain, Forced by no sweat or labour of the brain. r. 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 Usp'd in numbers, for the numbers caine.—... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 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 served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1840 - 366 pages
...£5 JUN 151967 XSU^D Mi"? .-t L 3000246 10G TRAGEDIES. BY THOMAS NOON TALFOURD, 3BRJEANT AT LAW. ' I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed." POPB. ION.— THE ATHENIAN CAPTIVE.— GLENCOE. LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. LONDON... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 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 served to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to Fame, 1 lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. 1 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,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...parents', or my own '! As yet a child, nor yet a fuol to Fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. ardle disobey'd ; The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...parents' or my own 1 At 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,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...parents' or my own 7 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,... | |
| Great Britain - 1846 - 670 pages
...Arbuthnot :' — " 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." He told Spence that he had begun writing verses farther back than he could well remember.... | |
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