 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or labour of the brain. F. Liwis. 1 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. POPI. This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...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 disobcy'd ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...In verse spontaneous flow'd my native strain, Forc'd by no sweat or labour of the brain. ¥. LKWIs. 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 - 1826 - 840 pages
...for the numbers came. l*ft no calling for this idle trade, to duty broke, no father disobey'd ; [be Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife ; To help me through this long disease, my life ; To Yvnnil, Arbuthnot ! thy art and care, bid teach, the being you preserv'd, to bear. But why then publish... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 234 pages
...twice as tall ; But foes like these. — P. One flatterer's worse than nil. I lisp'd in numbers tor the numbers came ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wi To help me through this long disease, my life, To... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...parents' or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers tame ; I left no calling for 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...unknown, Dipp'd me in ink — my parents' or my own ? At yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 1 Ii*p'd eM doty broke, no father disobey'd : The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...left uo calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed : The muse but nerved to esiee spering lovers made ! How often have I blessed the coining day, When toil second, Arbuthnot ! thy art and care, And teach the being you preserved, to bear. . . . А шап'в... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...unknown Dipped me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, 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, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...died In verse spontaneous flowed my native strain, Forced by no sweat or labour of the brain. T. LEWIS enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, an ; While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. — TOT*. —This... | |
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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? 
