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, and papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden... General principles of grammar - Page 19by General principles - 1847 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOT1, BEING THE PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES. SHUT, shut the door, good John2! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages3! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers... | |
| Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...TO DR ARBUTHNOT1, BEING THE PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES. P. QHUT, shut the door, good John2! fatigu'd, I said, ^^ Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages3! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers... | |
| 1867 - 420 pages
...of Horace 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,...'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out j * Fire in each eye and papers in each hand They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...dead, 1 Authors] Lord Hervey and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 1. good John] Pope's servant, John Serle. The Dog-star rages ! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam,...let out : Fire in each eye, and Papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What Walls can guard me, or what Shades can hide ?... | |
| Frederick Adolphus Packard - Education - 1866 - 180 pages
...and would let 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 I Say I'm sick I I'm dead 1" Only seven of the eighteen words were correctly parsed, their own teacher... | |
| George Lewis Levine, Alan Rauch - English literature - 1987 - 372 pages
...verse was as antithetical to true poetry as madness to sanity, sickness to health. When The dog star rages! Nay, 'tis past a doubt All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out. A cordon sanitaire to protect the healthy was the only answer: Shut, shut the door, good John.27 Other... | |
| C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 392 pages
...confin'd. Who from his study rails at human kind ... Shut, shut the door, good John\ fatigu'd I said, Tye up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead, The Dog-star...'tis past a doubt. All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out.42 When there is no classical precedent for such an opening, Pope is usually less dramatic, and... | |
| Mary A. Favret - Literary Collections - 2004 - 288 pages
...from a threatening mob. Pope's epistle begins : Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd I said Tye up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead, The Dog-star...'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out.56 At the other end of the century, however, a loosely defined and broadly discursive letter "to... | |
| Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - Authors and printing - 1996 - 258 pages
...the "person 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... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. 8850 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' 8851 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' You think this cruel? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little... | |
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