 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...parents, or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I hfp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. 1 left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. The Mufe but ferv'd to eafe fome (riend, not Wife, To help me thro' this long difeafe, my... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 pages
...unknown 125 Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. 133 The Mufebut ferv'd to eafe fome friend, not wife, To help me thro' this long difeafe,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 pages
...unknown 1z5 Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobeyVI:' 13o The VARIATIONS. Time, praife, or money, is the leaft they crave ; Yet each declares... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numl'ers, for the numbers came,' I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed. The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...In verfe fpontaneous flow'd my native ftrain, Forc'd by no fweat or labour of the brain. F. LEWIS* I left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father difobey'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came'*... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pages
...In verfe fpontaneous flow'd my native ftrain, Forc'd by no fweat or labour of the brain. F. LEW1I. I left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father difobey'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. PoPE.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...unknown 125 Dipt me in ink, my parent's, or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 1 lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade,No duty broke, no father difobey'd : 130 The Miife bat ferv'd to eafe fome friend, not Wife,.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...unknown 125 Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, fto duty broke, no father difobey'd: i;o VARIATIONS. Time, praife, or money, is the leaft they crave... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...parent's, or my own ? As vet a child, nor y« a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. k I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd : The Mule but fcrv'd to cafefome friend, rnt w \fe, To help me thro' this long difcafc,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...In verfe fpontaneous flow'd my native ftrain, Forc'd by no fweat or labour of the brain. F. LEWIs. I left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father difobey'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. PoPE.... | |
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And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? 
