 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 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... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 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 ? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped ; If foes, they write ; if friends, they read me dead. Seized... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 706 pages
...Francis, and others. Think of Arbuthnot beside Pope's sick-bed, and the latter's apostrophe — Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an Idle song ; — Garth ministering to Johnson, and Rush philosophizing with Dr. Franklin ; Bell's comments on... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 710 pages
...Francis, and others. Think of Arbuthnot beside Pope's sick-bed, and the latter's apostrophe — Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many on Idle song ;— Garth ministering to Johnson, and Rush philosophizing with Dr. Franklin ; Bell's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...works the cause: I Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 Friend to my life! (which did not yon prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What...fool's wrath or love? 30 A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped, \ If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 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 ? B Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? 30 A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped, If foes,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...Pope. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The iV' irlil had wanted many an idle song, POPE. What drop or nostrum can this plague 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 dead. Siezed... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - Authorship - 1908 - 328 pages
...and Cautions in English Grammar. The sequence of tenses is incorrect in the following examples : — Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had granted many an idle song. — Pope's Epistle to Arbuthnot. Some, who the depths of eloquence have... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...damn'd works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a Fool's wrath or love ? A dire delemma! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and... | |
 | English poetry - 1911 - 784 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? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized and... | |
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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? 
