 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pages
...me— just at dinner time.'1 Is there a parson, much bemus'd in oeer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he shflald engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 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 ? 20 All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 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'nham,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 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, 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... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - 1848 - 316 pages
...although he may not literally have realised Pope's couplet, and have been — " A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross," he yet exhibited an early bias towards literature, but the severer Clio — modern scholiasts write... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...catch me, just at 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,...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,... | |
 | 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?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 628 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,...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... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the...is her being, Discursive, or intuitive ; discourse desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls I All fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain. Apply to... | |
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A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross? 
