 | 1814 - 670 lehte
...us in hoping that he may in time write better. From one of his sonnets it appears that he is " Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should, engross." This information is conveyed in the following beautiful lines, with which we shall gratify our readers... | |
 | 1814 - 676 lehte
...he may in time write better. From one of his sonnets it appears that he is " Some clerk, fbredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." This information is conveyed in the following beautiful lines, with which we shall gratify our readers... | |
 | George Daniel - 1815 - 130 lehte
...BARRETT'S * doggrel be preferr'd to mine ; * Mr. Eaton Standard Barrett, Student of the Inner Temple , A Clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engrots. No threats can sway me, no opinions bend, I care not; — let them censure or commend. Yet... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 lehte
...burns, Yet bliss, through each, must centre in the mind. 20 TO MRS. HM BOWDLER. " A clerk, foredoomed his Father's soul to cross, ** Who pens a stanza when he should engross." POPE. — " Prologue to Satires." Too long, dear Aunt, has cold neglect delay'd, What earlier gratitude... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 lehte
...me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bcmus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, Aikin Joh jN+ scrawl] With desperate charcoal round his darkcn'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 lehte
...me, just at dinner-time, Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should eflgross ? Ii there, who, loclt'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd... | |
 | 1837 - 588 lehte
...sweet-soul'd enthusiast, who gazes on the sky through the dusty panes of Lincoln's Inn, " Some youth foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross,'' can lisp, languish, and love nothing but " Italic." Tl\e Doctor. Yes ; and little they know what "... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 lehte
...their creditors. W. Is there a Parson much be-mus'd in beer, 15 A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain 21 Apply to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 lehte
...creditors. W. NOTES. Is there a Parson much be-mus'd in beer, 15 A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain 21 Apply to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 lehte
...a Stanza, when he should engross? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain 21 Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. VARIATIONS. After Ver. 20 in the MS. Is there a Bard in durance... | |
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A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross? 
