 | William Beloe, Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, William Rowe Lyall, Robert Nares - 1823 - 700 pages
...write nonsense in verse, it is in bis situation the most innocuous mode of venting it. He can have " Left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd." Thus he can afford to dispose of a moderate edition (printed but not published,) in presentation... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 pages
...three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipp'd me in ink ? my 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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink ; my parents', or my / lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. < I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 pages
...thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipp'd me in ink ? my 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own 1 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...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 disobcy'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or labour of the brain. ¥. LKWIs. 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or labour of the brain. F. Liwis. 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. POPI.... | |
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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 Dipt me in ink, my parents... 
