| William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 432 pages
...pens a Stanza when hethouldengrefs? Is there, who lock'd from Ink and Paper, fcrawls With defp'rate Charcoal round his darken'd Walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble Strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur ', whofe giddy Son negleflsthe Laws, Imputes to me and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 pages
...pens a Stanza when he mould engrofs ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, fcrawls With defp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble ftraia 20 Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whofe giddy fon neglects the Laws, Imputes... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...a Stanza when he fhould engrofs ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, fcrawls With defp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble ftrain 20 Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whofe giddy fon negle&s the Laws, Imputes... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...a Stanza when he fhould engrofs ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, fcrawls With defp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble ftrain 29 Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whofe giddy fon neglects the Laws, Imputes... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...a Stan/a, when he fliould engrofi? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, fcrawls With dcfp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble ftrain 2 1 Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. VA ai AT IONI. After j/ 20. in the MS. Is there a... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...a ftanza when he fliould tngrofs ? Is there, who lock'd from ink and paper, fcrawls With defp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to Twitnam, and in humble ftrain Apply to me to keep them mad and vain ! Arthur, whofe giddy fon neglefts the laws, Imputes to... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...pens a ftanza, when he mould engrofs? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, fcrawls With defp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble ftrain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whofe giddy fon negle&s the Laws, . Imputes to... | |
| John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...catch me, just at dinner-time, Is there a parson much bemus'd in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stan2a, when he should engross? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal... | |
| 1799 - 464 pages
...ftanza when he fliould engrols ? Is there who, lock'd fro:n i»k and paper, fcrawls With defp'iate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble drain Apply to me to keep them, mad or vain. " Artliur, whole giddy fon neglefts the laws, Imputes... | |
| 1876 - 592 pages
...barn-door fowl than an eagle, or even a nightingale. It was the old story of — ' The Clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ; ' and in short it was agreed, in order to settle the dispute, that a specimen of the young man's... | |
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