 | 1840 - 372 pages
...flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill; 1 wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still. Yet then did...fret ; I never answer'd, I was not in debt. If want provoked, or madness made them print, I waged no war with bedlam or the mint. Did some more sober critic... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...place of sense Î Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. ther, lilc-a-ttle. , What, they admire him for his jokes — See but the sate still. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret: I never answcr'd, I was not in debt If want provok'd,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...place of sense 1 Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. s z q Z Zgn x sate still. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret: I never answer'd, I was not in debt. If want... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 pages
...place of sense ? Like gentle Faney's was my flowery theme, ' A painted mistress, or a purling stream.' Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd...in furious fret ; I never answer'd ; I was not in deht ; If want provoked, or madness made them print, I waged no war with Bedlam or the Mint. Did some... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 pages
...is evident from the lines in the Prologue to the Satires, not written till many years afterwards : " Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still." The character of Atticus was therefore undoubtedly written in 1716, when it was sent by Pope, in his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. 1 50 Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sate still. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret ; I never answer'd, I was not in debt. NOTES.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream w. Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sate still. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret ; I never answer'd, I was not in debt. If want... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...of sense? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, 'A painted mistress, or a purling stream.' Tel then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still: ^ et then did Dennis rave in furious fret ; 1 never answer'd ; I was not in debt ; If want provoked,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 628 pages
...place of sense T Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, ' A painted mistress, or a purling stream.' Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd...fret ; I never answer'd ; I was not in debt ; If want provoked, or madness made them print, I waged no war with Bedlam or the Mint. Did some more sober critic... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. ) "Thy prayer, sate still. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret: I never answer'd, I was not in debt, If want... | |
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Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. 
