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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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Wit and Humor, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 412 pages
...parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's son I to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross...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 - 386 pages
...time."i Is there a parson, much b emus' d in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from infe and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? POPE. All fly to Twit'nam,...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...dinner-time. Is there a mortal much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, ' Who pens a stanza, when he should engross, — Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls ? All fly to Twick'nhatn,...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...glide; Is there a mortal much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, ' Who pens a stanza, when he should engross,— Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls ? All fly to Twick'nham,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...time. Is there a parson, much hemused in heer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ; I8 there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawl* With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the ...

Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...time. Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross 1 Is there who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...time. Is 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 lly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...time. Is there a parson much he-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross 1 Is there who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls?...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1851 - 628 pages
...time. Is there a parson, much hemused in heer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when...engross ; Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawhi With desperate charcoal round his darken'd waUij All fly to Twit'nam, and in humhle strain...
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