 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 lehte
...: Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? 0 dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write; if friends, they read me dend. Siezed... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 lehte
...the impertinence of scribblers. Gratitude. Friend* to my life ! (which did not you prolong, Vexation. The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop,...remove ¥ Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A dire dilemma! Either way I'm sped; If foes, they write, if friends they read me dead. Seiz'd, and... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 lehte
...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 write some... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1851 - 54 lehte
...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 write some... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1851 - 518 lehte
...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 there... | |
 | 1852 - 874 lehte
...Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop of now pleases more,' She most, and in her look sums all delight : Such pleasur ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 lehte
...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 write some... | |
 | Henry Schroder - 1852 - 450 lehte
...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 write some... | |
 | 1898 - 788 lehte
...men, each in ils appointed season upon theearth. J. RUSKIN. POPE AU Dr ARBUTHNOT Friend to my Life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many...remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath, or love? A dire dilemma! either way l'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1995 - 562 lehte
...curse? Say, is their Anger, or their Friendship worse?" (1l. 29-30) The lines were later changed to: "What Drop or Nostrum can this Plague remove? Or which must end me, a Fool's Wrath or Love?" (The Poems of Alexander Pope (Twickenham Edition), ed. John Butt, 12 vols., 1939-69.) 6 RH refers to... | |
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And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? 
