 | Book collecting - 1908 - 1036 pages
...man! he did not conduct, and was not responsible for, the contents of a weekly periodical. "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,... | |
 | Literature - 1908 - 886 pages
...man! he did not conduct, and was not responsible for, the contents of a weekly periodical. "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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1882 - 850 pages
...poetasters requesting an opinion on their sorry productions. He cries to his servant : — 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,... | |
 | Frederick Adolphus Packard - Education - 1866 - 180 pages
...them take each word consecutively, and he would write their answers. The passage was, " Shut, shut the door, good John," fatigued I said ; " Tie up the knocker! Say I'm sick 1 I'm dead 1" Only seven of the eighteen words were correctly parsed, their own teacher himself being... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1896 - 1086 pages
...Pope's Epistle to Arbuihnot, where every word seems to throb and tingle with sensitive life : 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 and Parnassus is let out. Fire in... | |
 | Philip Hobsbaum - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 220 pages
...own verse, begs his servant to keep away from his secluded study these frenzied admirers: 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,... | |
 | Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - Authors and printing - 1996 - 258 pages
...from Porlock" may well be an allusion to the poetasters that besiege Pope at Twickenham: "Shut, shut the door, good John! (fatigued, I said) / Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead." And both works, though for very different reasons, are allegedly wrested from the poets' hands and... | |
 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 622 pages
...humour, and a poet. 1732—4 1735, 1744 EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOTt ‘Shut, shut the door, good John!' t fatigued, I said, ‘Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.' The Dog Start rages! nay ‘tis past a doubt, All Bedlam,t or Parnassus,t is let out: 5 Fire in each... | |
 | Vinayak Krishna Gokak - 1975 - 240 pages
...breaks a couplet into bits, communicating the rhythm of conversation in a memorable way : ''Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued I said, Tie up the knocker: say I'm sick, I'm dead." The opening inflections of a great address are suggested marvellously in Milton's Paradise Lost in... | |
 | 1867 - 420 pages
...has tried his satiric pen upon the poets of his age; it is addressed to Dr, Arbuthnot: "Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dogstar rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out j fire in each eye and... | |
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Shut,shut the door, good John, fatigued I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead! Wearied and overwhelmed with interruptions. Alas ! the pains and penalties of a literary life ! Must positively make some regulations to prevent such encroachments.... 
