| Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 lehte
...Imputes to me and my clamn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And enrses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong. The world had wanted manv an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 lehte
...would do something in his sempstress' praise — Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, (which...not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 394 lehte
...gratitude. If it had not been for Arbuthnot, posterity might have been deprived of a great deal of Pope. " Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song ;" says he, in his Epistle to the Doctor. And Dryden, in the " Postscript" to his translation... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 lehte
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which...not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ?... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 lehte
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which...not you prolong The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a. fool's wrath or love 1... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 lehte
...laws, Imputes to me and my damned works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, which...not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song, What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ?... | |
| William Beattie - 1850 - 534 lehte
...affection on the outside of my heart which much afflicted me. I may well say of Dr. Beattie— ' Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song!— but I beg to remark, that I allude to pain on the outside of my heart. In the inside of my... | |
| George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 lehte
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend — " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to... | |
| George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1851 - 54 lehte
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend— " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1851 - 518 lehte
...when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend Dr Arbuthnot, ' Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an Idle song ! Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in Ihe taste of the times, and he... | |
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