 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his rstanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her bei ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls... | |
 | 1853 - 820 pages
...phenomenon described by Pope as being so perplexing to parents, namely :— "Л youth foredoomed bis father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he...tortuous, though golden windings, of the temple of Themis, arc sufficient materials in themselves for an excellent comedy. The incipient comedy, however, promised... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1853 - 748 pages
...naissant." While Pope, in his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, speaks of — " Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." HARRY LEROY TEMPLE. PS — At p. 123. of Vol. vi. are inserted some other parallels, noted by me in... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? POPE. 250 Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, fore-doomed.his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross '< Is there who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...there a parson, much bemused in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, forcdoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken 'd walls?3... | |
 | Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 pages
...smiling, bowing, Then crying — " Gem'men, going, going, going !" Dr Wolcot. 51 A clerk, condemn'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Pope. 52 A thing in black called A poet; his means Are what the gentle fates please to allow him. Cowley.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross \ Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...Is there a parson, much bcmu*'d in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd wall*... | |
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All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. 
