 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...unknown, Dipt 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...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd.* BOILEAU says, in his fifth epistle, verse 110, that his father left him a decent patrimony, and made... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...Casa, of Annibal Caro, and Tasso himself, are full of entire lines taken from Dante and Petrarch. 1 I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd ; While yet a child, e'er yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE. This... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...About ten, being at fchool at Hydepark corner, where he was much neglected, and fuffered to go to the I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. 130 The NOTES. the comedy wfth the greater boys, he turned the tranfaftions of the Iliad... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...About ten, being at fchool at Hydepaik-coiuer, whcie he was much neglcclcd, and fuffered to go to the I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. 130 The NOTES. the comedy with the greater boys, he turned the tranlk&ions of the Iliad... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...About ten, being at fchool at Hydepark corner, where he was much neglected, and fuffered to go to the I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd, 130 The NOTES. the comedy with the greater boys, he turned the tranfactions of the Iliad... | |
 | 1806 - 340 pages
...In verfe fpontaneous 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 difobey'd; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. •... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or labour of the brain. r. 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. POP... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 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...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me throngh this long disease, my life,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...parents' or niy own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numhers, for the numhers came: 1 left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disohey'd, 130 The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me tbrough this long disease,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...ine unknown Dip'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...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The Musu but serv'd 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 Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? 
