 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...damned works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The...song, What drop or nostrum can this plague remove T Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? 0 dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...damned works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? 0 dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write; if friends, they read me dend. Siezed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong The...remove ? Or which must end me, a. fool's wrath or love 1 A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped*, If foes, they write • if friends, they read me dead. Seized... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...the impertinence of scribblers. Gratitude. Friend* to my life ! (which did not you prolong, Vexation. The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop,...remove ¥ Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A dire dilemma! Either way I'm sped; If foes, they write, if friends they read me dead. Seiz'd, and... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend — " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to write some... | |
 | William Beattie - 1850 - 534 pages
...affection on the outside of my heart which much afflicted me. I may well say of Dr. Beattie— ' Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song!— but I beg to remark, that I allude to pain on the outside of my heart. In the inside of my heart all... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend— " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to write some... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1851 - 518 pages
...when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend Dr Arbuthnot, ' Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an Idle song ! Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in Ihe taste of the times, and he there... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 450 pages
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend — " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to write some... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop of now pleases more,' She most, and in her look sums all delight : Such pleasur ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd... | |
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Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove? 
