 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 lehte
...three thoufand years ago. Why did I write ? what fin to me unknown 125 Dipt me in ink, my parent's, or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 1 lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade,No duty broke, no... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 lehte
...three thoufand years ago. Why did I write? what fin to me unknown 125 Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, fto duty broke, no father difobey'd: i;o VARIATIONS. Time, praife,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 lehte
...I write • what fin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parent's, or my own ? As vet a child, nor y« a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. k I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd : The Mule but fcrv'd to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 lehte
...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 lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. PoPE. This plain floor, Believe me, reader, can fay more Than many a braver marble can, . Here lies... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 lehte
...it in your face. Ver. 126. Why did I write ? what fin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. The Mufe but ferv'd to eafe... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 lehte
...thousand years ago. Why did I write :' what sin to me 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 for this idle trade, No duty broke, no... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 lehte
...riiree thuufand years ago. Why did 1 write ? what fin to ine unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parent's, or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, [ lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling fc/r this idle trade, No duty broke, no... | |
 | 1801 - 606 lehte
...feldom attends on induftry — a ftrong propenfity for poetry. Pope fpeaking of himfelf fays: , ...) " As yet A child, nor yet a fool to fame, . " I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came." This feems to have been alfo the cafe of George Dyer/ with this difference, that while the one wooed... | |
 | 1801 - 344 lehte
...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 lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. PoPE. This plain floor, Believe me, reader, can fay more Than many a braver marble can, Here lies a... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1802 - 610 lehte
...from thf Elegiac verfes of Ovid and Tibullug. « While Parti. §4. OF THE HUMAN MIND. 3U " While ftill a child, nor yet a fool to fame, " I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came." i This facility of verification, it is true, may be, and probably is, in moft cafes, only apparent... | |
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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', or my own? 
