| Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...damn'd works the cause i Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love 7 A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write ; if friends, they read me dead. Seized... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The...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... | |
| George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...damned works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The...song, What drop or nostrum can this plague remove T Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? 0 dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong The...remove ? Or which must end me, a. fool's wrath or love 1 A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped*, If foes, they write • if friends, they read me dead. Seized... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...damned works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? 0 dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write; if friends, they read me dend. Siezed... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...the impertinence of scribblers. Gratitude. Friend* to my life ! (which did not you prolong, Vexation. The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop,...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. Seiz'd, and... | |
| William Beattie - 1850 - 534 pages
...affection on the outside of my heart which much afflicted me. I may well say of Dr. Beattie— ' Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song!— but I beg to remark, that I allude to pain on the outside of my heart. In the inside of my heart all... | |
| George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend — " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to write some... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1851 - 518 pages
...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 an Idle song ! Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in Ihe taste of the times, and he there... | |
| George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1851 - 54 pages
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend— " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to write some... | |
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