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" A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross! "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 5
by Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pages
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 77-78

John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...they board the barge. 10 No place is sacred, not the church is free, Ev'n Sunday shines no sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme,...foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stan2a, when he should engross? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1796 - 500 pages
...walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time, Is there a parson much bemtis'd in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk,...foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stan2a, when he should engross ? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 144

1876 - 592 pages
...barn-door fowl than an eagle, or even a nightingale. It was the old story of — ' The Clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ; ' and in short it was agreed, in order to settle the dispute, that a specimen of the young man's...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...rhyming Peer, A Clerk pre-doom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross f Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls...desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to Tioit'nara, and, in humble strain, Apply to me to keep them mad and vain ! Arthur, whose giddy son...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...rhyming Peer, A Clerk pre-doom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross f Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls? AH fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain, Apply to me to keep them mad and vain ! Arthur, whose giddy...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...iv. 2. Is there a Parson much be-mus'd in beer, A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk pre-doom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross f Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round hisdarken'd walls?...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much he-mus'd in heer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd...there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain 21 Apply to...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-raus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd...his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when be should engross? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his...
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Flowers of literature; for 1801 & 1802(-1805): or, Characteristic ..., Volume 4

Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...Poetical Recreations. The author of these very candidly informs us, that he is " A clerk foredoomM his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." Rushton's Poems deserve more than ordinary attention, not only from the melancholy circumstance of...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...rhyme, Happy! to. catch me, just at diuner-time. t Is there a parson, mnch bemus'd in beer, A mandlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's...there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly toTwit'nam, and in humble straU Apply to me, to...
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