 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 422 pages
...dy'd In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or kbour of the brain. P. 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 lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 414 pages
...In 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 disobey'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown DippM me in ink, my parents', or my n, If Hampton- Court these eyes had never seen lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 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 father... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...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 father disobey'd: The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...thousand years ago. W hy 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, ' Forced by no sweat or labour of the brain. F. LEWIS. I left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father disobev'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE.... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
