 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...mine, since a nameless character can never be found out, but by its truth and likeness. P. SHUT, shut the door, good John!' fatigued, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star rages! nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus is let out: Fire in each eye,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...mine, since a nameless character can never be found out but by its truth and likeness. P. ' SHUT, shut the door, good John! (fatigued, I said) Tie up the knocker, say I 'm sick, I 'm dead.' The dog-star rages! nay, 'tis past a doubt All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out:... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...mine, since a nameless character can never be found out but by its truth and likeness. P. ' Shut, shut the door, good John! (fatigued, I said) Tie up the knocker, say I 'm sick, I'm dead/ The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out:... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...mine, since a nameless character can never be found out but by its troth and likeness. P. * Shut, shut the door, good John ! (fatigued I said), Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.' The dogstar rages! nay, 'tis past a doubt All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out: VOL. V. M I Fire in each... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...truth and likeness. Pope. EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT; BEING THE PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES. P. SHUT, shut the door, good John! fatigued I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star rages! nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out: Fire in each eye and... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...faults, nor yet too vain to mend. EPISTLE TO DH. ARBUTHKOT. 25 EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT. P. ' SHUT, shut the door, good John !' fatigued, I said; ' Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I 'm dead.' The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out: Fire in... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...reading what men write. Shall make a point of abusing every clever book written by a woman. Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued I said; Tie up the knocker,...Alfieri, open no letters of which 1 do not know the handwriting. Write over my study-door, ' Time is my estate ;' forbid any morning callers; and make... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...reading what men write. Shall make a point of abusing every clever book written by a woman. Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued I said; Tie up the knocker,...encroachments. Like Alfieri, open no letters of which I do not know the handwriting. Write over my study-door, ' Time is my estate ;' forbid any morning... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...o'er, The muse forgot, and thou beloved no more. FROM THE " EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT." ' Shut, shut the door, good John,' fatigued, I said ; ' Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead ! The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out : Fire in each eye,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme Happy to catch me just at dinner time.* P. Shut up the door, good John ! fatigued I said, Tie up the knocker ; say I'm sick, I'm dead, The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out: Fire in each eye,... | |
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Shut,shut the door, good John, fatigued I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead! Wearied and overwhelmed with interruptions. Alas ! the pains and penalties of a literary life ! Must positively make some regulations to prevent such encroachments.... 
