| English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross 1 Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1865 - 506 pages
...the man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to TWIC'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1865 - 570 pages
...there; translated by him into English Terse," 1641. Prynne literally verifies Pope's description— " Is there who lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ?" We have also a catalogue of printed books written by Wm. Prynne, of Lincoln's-Inn, Esq., in these... | |
| Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 pages
...he was entered as a student of the Middle Temple, and far from proving himself " A clerk fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross," devoted himself assiduously to the study in its most enlarged and liberal view, and not merely as a... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...Line 12 Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Line 15, Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Line... | |
| Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 pages
...he was entered as a student of the Middle Temple, and far from proving himself " A clerk fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross," devoted himself assiduously to the study in its most enlarged and liberal view, and not merely as a... | |
| ISAAC DISRAELI - 1865 - 566 pages
...in his love of transiatedbyhi. into English ' 1641 *VI™e 1iterally verifies F0pe'S descnptlon" IB there who lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken d walls ! We have also a catalogue of printed hooks written hy Wm. Prynne, of Inncoln's-Inn,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to TWIC'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...the man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken' d walls * John Searle, Pope's servant. t Formerly a sanctuary for insolvent debtors in Southwait.... | |
| 1867 - 672 pages
...serious business of life in an Advocate's or law-agent's office in Aberdeen. He was not, perhaps, ' A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross.' He even derived some benefit afterwards from a little acquaintance with the language of law-process... | |
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