 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 papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden...  General principles of grammar - Page 19by General principles - 1847 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...its truth and likeness. P. EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT. P. SHUT, shut the door, good John ! fatigu'd, I said ; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead....let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shadescan hide ? They... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...out but by its truth and likeness. P. DR. ARBUTHNOT. P. SHUT, shut the door, good John ! fatigu'd, I said; Tie up the knocker ; say I'm sick, I'm dead....let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide ?... | |
 | James Grant Raymond - 1806 - 364 pages
...Surges, Bart. «Sn, " MY last letter being written under evident struggles of a spirit rendered not * " Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued I said : Tie up the knocker ; say I'm sick, I'm dead," POPE. VO.L, 11, o a little irritable by surrounding calamities, as likewise by the abrupt loss of a... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...its truth and likeness. 1'. [ 129 j fcPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT. , shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said -, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a douht All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 5 They rave,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 pages
...malevolent remark, such ' toothless -f- satire !' * He would have said, (but it luckily escaped him) The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out ! Pope's Prolog, to Satires, v. 3, 4. t I subjoin my authority for this somewhat unusual expression.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...ilone Uy inne, since a nameless character can never be ibund out but hy its truth and likeness. P." SHUT, shut the door, good John !" fatigued, I said; " Tie up the knocker; say Tin sick, I'm dead." The dog-star rages! nay,^tis past a doubt, All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out:... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...the door, cood John '. fatigu'd I said, Tie up the knocker, say 1 'm sick, I 'm dead, '('he Dog star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each each eye, and papt-is in each hand, They rave, recite, mid madden round the land. What walls can guard... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...door, good John ! fatigu'd I said, Tye up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star rages 1 nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus,...let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, g They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide ?... | |
 | England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...pillory of prosing ; witness the agonies of Tope when he burst forth into that indignant strain — ' Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued I said, Tie up the knocker — say I'm sick— I'm dead." How feelingly even the stern-minded Johnson (in his satire on London) classes the evil of a woman's... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...Complaint to Dr.Arbuthnot,oft/te Impertinence of Scribblers. SHUT, shut the door, good John !— fatigu'd I said : Tie up the knocker — say, I'm sick, I'm dead. The dogstar rages i. Nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus is let out. 4 Fire in each eye, and papers in each... | |
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