 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...The world had wanted many an idle fong) What Drop or Noftrum can this plague remove ? Or which muft end me, a Fool's wrath or love? 30 A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm fped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. VARIATIONS. After ver. 2o, in the MS.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...works the cau-fe: Poor Cornus fees hi. frantic 44ifc elope; ' Л ...I ~^-IV- '--Л^ _. 1" . . 't чч . Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle long) What drop or noftrum can this plague remove ? Or which muft end me, a fool's wrath or love ?... | |
 | Robert Lowth - 1791 - 192 pages
...found in the Paft Perfeft ; which would be confiftent with the Paft Indefinite in the fecond line. " Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle fong." Pope, Epift. to Arbuthaot. I It with the Subftantive in thofe refpe&s ; feme of the Pronominal... | |
 | James Roach - 1794 - 260 pages
...the caufe : Poor ' Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope ; And curfes Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle fong) What Drop or Nojlrum can this plague remove ? Or which mufl end me, a Fool's wrath or love ;... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd Works the cause ; Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 Friend to my life! (which, did not you prolong, The...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath, or love J 30 A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Sei2'd,... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...verse was surely ringing in the ear of Pope, when, in addressing Dr. Arbuthnot, he says, "Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." The above extracts are not made with any malignant design of detecting any unacknowledged imitations... | |
 | James Burgh - 1804 - 312 pages
...\ What drop, or nostrum, can \h\splague remove f Or which must end me, a fool's wrath, or /or*? • A dire dilemma ! Either way I'm sped ; If foes, they -write, if friends, they readme, dead. Seii'd and /ry'J Jszaw to judge, how wretched I, v Who caw'/ be silent, and who wi//... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...works the caufe : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curfes Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle fong) What VARIATIONS. After Ver. 20 in the MS. Is there a Bard in durance ? turn them free, With all... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...works the caufe : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curies Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle fong) What VARI AT ION S. After Ver. 20 in the MS. Is there a Bard in durance ? turn them free, With... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...works the caufe : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curies Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle fong) What VARIATION S. After Ver. 20. in the MS. Is there a Bard in durance ? turn them free, With... | |
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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? 
