 | 1814 - 678 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... | |
 | 1814 - 676 pages
...he may in time write better. From one of his sonnets it appears that he is " Some clerk, fbredoom'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... | |
 | George Daniel - 1815 - 130 pages
...BARRETT'S * doggrel be preferr'd to mine ; * Mr. Eaton Standard Barrett, Student of the Inner Temple , A Clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engrots. No threats can sway me, no opinions bend, I care not; — let them censure or commend. Yet... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...burns, Yet bliss, through each, must centre in the mind. 20 TO MRS. HM BOWDLER. " A clerk, foredoomed his Father's soul to cross, ** Who pens a stanza when he should engross." POPE. — " Prologue to Satires." Too long, dear Aunt, has cold neglect delay'd, What earlier gratitude... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bcmus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming scrawl] With desperate charcoal round his darkcn'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...catch me, just at dinner-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 he should eflgross ? Ii there, who, loclt'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd... | |
 | 1837 - 588 pages
...sweet-soul'd enthusiast, who gazes on the sky through the dusty panes of Lincoln's Inn, " Some youth foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross,'' can lisp, languish, and love nothing but " Italic." Tl\e Doctor. Yes ; and little they know what "... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...persecution of their creditors. W. 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,...humble strain 21 Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. VARIATIONS. After Ver. 20 in the MS. Is there a Bard in durance ? turn them free With all their brandish'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...their creditors. W. NOTES. 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,...humble strain 21 Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. VARIATIONS. After Ver. 20 in the MS. Is there a Bard in durance ? turn them free With all their brandish'd... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...catch me—just at 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,...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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A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross? 
