 | 1796 - 500 pages
...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... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...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 round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain 21 Apply to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much bemus'd in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd...there who lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain 21 Apply to... | |
 | 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?... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rbyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,...there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain 21 Apply to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly toTwit'nam, and in humble straU Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at diuner-time. • Is there a parson much be-mus'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... | |
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Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me just at Dinner-time. 
