 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...you no more ! Why did I write 1 What sin to me unknown Dipped me in ink, — my parents', or my own 7 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disoheyed : The Muse but served to ease '<ome friend, not To help me through this long Disease, my... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...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 hsp'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 586 pages
...Charlotte had to be thankful for such a letter. If she did write poetry, she might truly say with Pope, ' I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed.' Indeed it was because she wished it to be not " an idle trade" that she wrote. Southey, however, gravely... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...three thousand years ago. Why did I write ' what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my p * p * lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...Arbuthnot : "Why did I write1! What sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents' or my own 1 Aa yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers,...calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...and you no more ! Why did I write ? What sin to me unknown Dipped me in ink, — my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came : [ left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed : The Muse but served to... | |
 | J. Frank Dobie - 1981 - 386 pages
...cabinetmaker" coming trippingly from the tongue of Thomas Sheraton, or "born historian" from Gibbon. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came, but Alexander Pope would have been the last to call himself a "born poet." I cannot call myself a "born... | |
 | Madeleine Kahn - 1991 - 188 pages
...similarly ambiguous thing: Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in Ink, my Parents' or my own? As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, I lispt in Numbers, for the Numbers came. I left no Calling for this idle trade, No Duty broke, no Father... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...OxBoLi; PoE; PoEL-3; SCV 13 Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my ; PoE; PoRA; PPP; TrCP; TrGrPo; WeW; WGRP; WiR lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. 14 The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Dipped me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed. 130 The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life,... | |
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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... 
