| Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 oldal
...darkened walls ? All fly to Twickenham,* and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain. 3. 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? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? O,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 578 oldal
...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 iin idle song! Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the times,... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 oldal
...and Achitop&ct. POPE adopts similar language in addressing his friend Dr. Arbuthnot : — Fricnd of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. For trnth has snch a faco and such a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen. — DHYDEN.... | |
| Francis Sylvester Mahony - 1860 - 650 oldal
...magazines. Sad abortions ! on which even you, 0 Queen, sometimes take compassion, infusing into them a life " Which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." To return to his conversational powers : he did not waste them on the generality of folks, for... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 oldal
...life. The charming couplet to his doctor, Dr. Arbuthnot, is an example of what I mean : Friend of that life which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song has exquisite feeling in it. The same may be said of the referen • to Pope's mother in one of... | |
| Francis Mahony - 1860 - 654 oldal
...Sad abortions ! on which even you, O Queen, sometimes take compassion, infusing into them a liib " Which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." To return to his conversational powers : he did not waste them on the generality of folks, for... | |
| Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 224 oldal
...silver shafts resound. 30. 0 Thou my lips inspire, Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire. 31. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong. The world had wanted many an idle song. 82. So well-hred spaniels civilly delight In mumhling of the game they dare not hite. 83. Him... | |
| William Stebbing - 1913 - 426 oldal
...with a caress : to the mother, who had watched over his troubled childhood ; and to the physician : Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song ; 21 without whose affectionate art and care even his faithful Muse would have been too hard tasked,... | |
| Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 oldal
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, song) ! What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love... | |
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