 | Henry Schroder - 1852 - 450 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... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 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... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop of now pleases more,' She most, and in her look sums all delight : Such pleasur ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd... | |
 | 1853 - 560 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 ? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped ; If foes, they write ; if friends, they read me dead. Seized... | |
 | 1853 - 706 pages
...Francis, and others. Think of Arbuthnot beside Pope's sick-bed, and the latter's apostrophe — Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an Idle song ; — Garth ministering to Johnson, and Rush philosophizing with Dr. Franklin ; Bell's comments on... | |
 | 1853 - 710 pages
...Francis, and others. Think of Arbuthnot beside Pope's sick-bed, and the latter's apostrophe — Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many on Idle song ;— Garth ministering to Johnson, and Rush philosophizing with Dr. Franklin ; Bell's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...works the cause: I Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 Friend to my life! (which did not yon prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What...fool's wrath or love? 30 A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped, \ If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 pages
...damn'd works the cause: 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 ? A dire delemma! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and... | |
 | 1911 - 784 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? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized and... | |
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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? 
