 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...Is there a parson much be-mus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk f oredoom'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 desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls?... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed 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?... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. 3884 Pope : Epis.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...12. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? Line 15. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Line... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 906 pages
...Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross? 1 Approximately the first half of the poem. Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...Is there a Parson much bemused in beer, 16 A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A clerk foredoomed his x_ {U AJ w / y ꋝ= o <f_ 1 Is there who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darkened walls?... | |
 | Book collecting - 1908 - 1036 pages
...Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross; All fly to Twitnam, and in humble strain, Apply to me to keep them mad or vain." It may be inferred... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...Is there a Parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross? Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls, With desp'rate charcoal round his darkened walls?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed 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?... | |
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All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. 
