 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...unknown DippM me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to Fame, I lisp'd not I the first mistaken maid By lore of courts to numerous ills betray'd. Oh had I rather unadm disobcy'd ; The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 414 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or labour of the brain. F. LEWIS. I left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father disobey'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE. This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 422 pages
...dy'd In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or kbour of the brain. P. LEWIS. I left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father disobey 'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.—... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to Fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey M ; The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd: The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life; To... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...NOTES. TO THE SATIRES. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey 'd. 130 The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife, To help me through this long disease, my Life, To second, ARBUTHNOT ! thy Art and Care, And teach, the Being you preserv'd, to bear. 134 A. But why then... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...Cum caverem reges rt i»irlin, etc. W. All the circumstances of our Author's early life, mentioned in I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. 130 The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife, To help me through this long disease, my Life,... | |
 | 1822 - 370 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forced by no sweat or labour of the brain. F. LEWIS. I left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father disobey'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, 1 lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE. This... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 378 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forced by no sweat or labour of the brain. F. Lewis. I left no calling for this idle trade ; No duty broke, no father rtisobey'il ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.... | |
 | William Beloe, Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, William Rowe Lyall, Robert Nares - 1823 - 700 pages
...write nonsense in verse, it is in bis situation the most innocuous mode of venting it. He can have " Left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd." Thus he can afford to dispose of a moderate edition (printed but not published,) in presentation copies,... | |
| |
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? 
