 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 lehte
...three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me 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... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 586 lehte
...dignity and tenderness, (of neither of which qualities Dryden had much, or almost any,) is all Pope's own : — ' As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 lehte
...unknown Dipped me in ink, — my parents', or my own ? As jvt a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped es that asked but little disobeyed. The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | 1872 - 900 lehte
...unknown Dipped me in ink, — my parents', or my own ? .As yrt a child, nor yet a fool to fame, J lisped eard and glittering to a wed* ding feast, eye, «h on'e""'" Now wherefor lío duty broke, no father disobeyed. The muse Lut served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 168 lehte
...dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me 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 for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 lehte
...iclc-J irtt. headache.. "Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 135 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 lehte
...dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me 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 for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 lehte
...three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipped me in ink, — my parents', or r can lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
 | Emily Marion Harris - 1874 - 220 lehte
...repeated, half mournfully, half in jest. " What sin, to me unknown, Dipped me in ink,—my parents' or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came : I left no calling for this idle trade." " Trade !" said Beaty,... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 lehte
...your piece nine years «. , Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... | |
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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? 
