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" Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'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. "
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 187
by Joseph Warton - 1806
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...time. I- there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when...there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ; All rly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 504 pages
...in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross. Who penĀ« a stanza when he should engross ; Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ; All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ! AH fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

1840 - 372 pages
...day to me ; Then from the mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...dinner-lime. Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken' J walls All fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain, Apply to me,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd BEDFORD. THIS morning, timely rapt with holy fire,...unto ray zealous Muse, What kind of creature I coul Wilh desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? AH fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain, Apply...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pages
...time. 7 Is there a parson, much hemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal mum! his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...time. Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...time. Is there a parson, much bemns'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pages
...stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from infc and paper, scrawls With desperate 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, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor...
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