 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...weakness, in me to believe that I could make them better known or more admired than they now are ; (1) i " I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father dteobey'd." — POPE.] but of his private worth ( ' ), of his wishes to do good, of his affability... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...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...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. 130 The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 382 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 serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...parents' or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 1 H-ip'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; [ thou art a cit with all thy worth ; But Bug and D*l, their honours, an : The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...eame. I left no calliope tor this idle trade, No duty broke, no father dlsobey'd ; The muse but scrv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease, my life." These touching lines express the career of Pope. Nature had denied him the more active and sensual... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...— In verse spontaneous flowed my native strain, Forced 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 Usp'd in numbers, for the numbers caine.— POPE. —This... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 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 elf flies, Sarpcdon is killed, though Jupiter was...averse to his fate. Several other particulars of the. The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life, To... | |
 | 1840 - 372 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 : • But why then publish ? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write ;... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...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, my life ; To second, Arbuthnot ! thy art and care, And teach the being you preserved, to bear. But why then publish... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1840 - 366 pages
...£5 JUN 151967 XSU^D Mi"? .-t L 3000246 10G TRAGEDIES. BY THOMAS NOON TALFOURD, 3BRJEANT AT LAW. ' I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed." POPB. ION.— THE ATHENIAN CAPTIVE.— GLENCOE. LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. LONDON... | |
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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? 
