 | Epes Sargent - 1854 - 494 pages
...2. 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 ? Is there166 who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls *... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...dinner-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 ? 20 All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...dinner-time. Is there a parson 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 f All fly to Twit'nam,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1856 - 492 pages
...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? Is there 106 who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walk ? All fly... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
.... . Is there a Parson, 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 desp'rate charcoal round his darkened walls? All fly to Twit-nam,... | |
 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - 1990 - 622 pages
...time. 15 Is there a parson, 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 20 With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls? All fly to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...time. Is there a parson, 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? 20 All fly to... | |
 | Clifford Siskin - 1999 - 298 pages
...himself as the unwilling target of aspiring hordes of writers who hope they can ride his fame to market: "All fly to Twit'na.m, and in humble strain /Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain" (21-22). In the later version, however, die gatherer is an "old Man" who invites the leeches... | |
 | Edward L. Bond - 2004 - 590 pages
...19. Is there a Parson, much be-mus'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? The Truth of it is, where there is a Strong Presumption, that a Youth, when he shall have attained... | |
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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. 
