 | 1843 - 678 pages
...expressed himself twice with generous warmth in grateful acknowledgment of the skill of his friend : — « Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song)." And, a little further on, he pathetically sings, — " The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song.) What drop of charms begirt To enamour, as the zone of Venus once Wrought that effect on J ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song),...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped ; If foes they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pages
...his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song),...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped ; If foes they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pages
...Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song), \\ nat drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped ; If foes they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 pages
...clamn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And enrses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong. The world had wanted manv an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...darkened walls ? All fly to Twick'nham, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them, mad or vain. What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they nrite ; if friends, they read me dead. Seized,... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...darkened walls ? All fly to Twick'nhatn, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them, mad or vain. What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; It foes, they write ; if friends, they read me dead. Seized,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 376 pages
...gratitude. If it had not been for Arbuthnot, posterity might Lave been deprived of a great deal of Pope. " Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song ;" says he, in his Epistle to the Doctor. And Dryden, in the " Postscript" to his translation of "... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - 1848 - 300 pages
...approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. — Cotcper. Friend to my life, (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song.)...remove .' Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or lore ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized... | |
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Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove? 
