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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? "
The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill - Page 126
by John Bell - 1807
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Curiosities of Literature: Second series

Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 474 pages
...when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend DrArhuthnot, * Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an iule son s ! Howvll has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the tim<'S,...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And cuEses wit, and poetry, and Pope. all.' Matter to mast end me, .. fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write ;...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 320 pages
...wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prulong, ^he world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum...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. Seized...
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The Reliques of Father Prout, Late P.P. of Watergrasshill, in the ..., Volume 1

Francis Mahony - 1836 - 696 pages
...mao-azines. Sad abortions ! on which even you, O 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 n waste them on the generality of folks, for he d the...
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Ausführliche theoretisch-praktische Schulgrammatik der englischen Sprache ...

Johann Sporschil - 1838 - 510 pages
...boppclre SBeife in einen п'ф tigcn umgereonbelt roerbcn. 2)ке gilt oon meíjrm bet folgenben @á|c. which did not you prolong , . the world had wanted many an idle song. The innovation in the military system was quickly followed -by another, which the custom of employing...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. T W W W J@ / Î Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped, If foes, they...
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Physic and Physicians: A Medical Sketch Book, Exhibiting the ..., Volume 1

Forbes Winslow - 1839 - 398 pages
...there is no hope of lucre."* * Life of Sir S. Garth. Pope, in his epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, says, " Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." Dryden, in his " Postscript " to the translation of Virgil, pays a high compliment to his own medical...
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An enlarged edition of Murray's abridged English grammar, by dr. [J.A.] Giles

Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pages
...had he been invited. Be that as it will. I only done one exercise. His arguments were what follow. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Poverty turns our thoughts too much on the supplying our wants, and riches on the enjoying our superfluities....
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which, did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What...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. Seized...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wonted many an idle song,) What drop of I A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped ; If foee. they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd...
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