...poudre du greft'e un poete naissant." While Pope, in his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, speaks of — " Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." HARRY LEROY TEMPLE. PS — At p. 123. of Vol. vi. are inserted some other parallels, noted by me in...

...individual allusion than a modern poet, when, in the very same spirit, he wrote the couplet, ic Some Z~Ȧ = 7 ] 2o w k W=j~xW fUm U m ^ Q : > /u ӳb!K n*y X ingross." * It is certain also that Shakespeare wrote with great facility, and that his compositions...

...dinner-time. Is there a parson much bemused 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 ? POPE. 250 Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened...

...phenomenon described by Pope as being so perplexing to parents, namely :— "Л youth foredoomed bis father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." In fact the laudable efforts of the elder Zorilla (a successful lawyer, full of years, business, and...

...phenomenon described by Pope as being so perplexing to parents, namely :— , "A youth foredoomed Ilia father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." In fact the laudable efforts of the elder Zorilla (a successful lawyer, full of years, business, and...

...Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, forcdoom'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?3 20 All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to...

...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 who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls ? All fly to Twickenham,...

...smiling, bowing, Then crying — " Gem'men, going, going, going !" Dr Wolcot. 51 A clerk, condemn'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Pope. 52 A thing in black called A poet; his means Are what the gentle fates please to allow him. Cowley....

...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 ? 20 All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to...

...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 ? 20 All fly to Twit'nara, and in humble strain Apply to...