 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...Poetical Recreations. The author of these very candidly informs us, that he is " A clerk foredoomM his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." Rushton's Poems deserve more than ordinary attention, not only from the melancholy circumstance of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...catch me, just at diuner-time. t Is there a parson, mnch bemus'd in beer, A mandlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,...there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly toTwit'nam, and in humble straU Apply to me, to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...catch me just at diuner-time. • 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 be should engross ? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A dirk, rorcdoora'd his father's soul to cross, Win pens a stanza when he should engross? Is there who,...scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? AH fly to Twit'nam, and in hnmble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...paper, scrawls With desp'ratecharcoal round hisdirkcn'd walls? All fly to Twil'nam, and in humble strain v'ry man who lives is born to die, And norse can boast sincere felicity, lawi. Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause; Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope ; And curses... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-mus'd in beer, A mandlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanaa when he should engross ? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd nails? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain 2[ Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the law*, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Ciimus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bcmus'd in beer, A maudlm poetess, a rhyming peer, A cl< rk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engro«s ? Is there! who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkcn'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...pleasing instances. VOI.. III. 42 Is there a parson much be-mus'd in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,...walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain 2 1 Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me... | |
 | 1814 - 670 pages
...us in hoping that he may in time write better. From one of his sonnets it appears that he is " Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should, engross." This information is conveyed in the following beautiful lines, with which we shall gratify our readers... | |
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A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross? 
