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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill - Page 125
by John Bell - 1807
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 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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Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical & Critical. Printed ...

1828 - 346 pages
...has sometimes proved fatal ; yet for mediocrity we make but small allowance. If a dunce — " Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross," will print his nonsense, he has nobody to blame but himself, if the public is made merry at his expense...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 8

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 pages
...immoderate engrossments of power and favour by no other tenure than presumption. Id. A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Pope. From the letters that passed between him and Pope, it might be inferred they, with Arbuthnot...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...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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Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with ...

William Godwin - 1831 - 496 pages
...his Satires, 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. Every manager of a theatre, and every publishing bookseller of eminence, can produce you in each revolving...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls? All fly to Twick'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 to my works the cause: Poor Conius sees his frantic wife elope. And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope....
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, 15 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 21 Apply to...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 320 pages
...me !— just at dinner 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,...pens a stanza when he should engross ; Is there who, luck'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ; All fly to Twit'nam,...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...me !— just at dinner time. Is there a parson, much hemused in heer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming d, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyran whea he should engross ; Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Л\'1ю pens a stanza, when lie lexander desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls I All fly to TWIT'XAM, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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