 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...will not lie : To laugh, were want or goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish, and an aching bead ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, 39 This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years."... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - History - 1811 - 394 pages
...fine-spun theories into lumber, little better than nonsense. However, like the rest of my comitrymen, •with sad civility, I read, With honest anguish and an aching head. To counteract the constitutionalists, the disaffected to the revolution, were invited to fall into... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...friendship worse ; To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r of face. I sit with sad civility, I read, With honest...piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he, who high in Drury-lane, 41 Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1813 - 596 pages
...has nothing to do with the subject. J Mere assertion again — mere bold, impudent assertion. § " I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish,...in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, 'keep your peace nine years.' " WC REVIEW OF LITERATURE. ART. II. — An Essay towards a Theory of Apparitions.... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...all power of face. 1 sit, with sad civility ; I read, With serious anguish and an aching head: Then drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel..."Keep your piece nine years." " Nine years !" (cries lie, who, high in Drurylanc, Ltill'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes' ere he wakes,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...all power of face. I sit, with sad civility ; I read, With serious anguish and an aching head : Then drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel...nine years." " Nine years !" (cries he, who, high in Drurylane, LulPd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before term... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...will not lie : To laugh, WITC want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, ejceeds all power of 1820 "L0nN+ ywrs." " Nine yean !" cries he, who high in Drury-buw, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...of face. I sit, with sad civility; I read, '" • " > With serious anguish and an aching head : Then drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel...nine years." " Nine years !'' (cries he, who, high in Ururylane, Lull'd by seft zephyrs through the broken pane, . Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...all power efface. I sit, with sad civility ; I read, With serious anguish and an aching head : Then drop at last, but in unwilling ears. This saving counsel...nine years," " Nine years !" (cries he, who, high in Drurylane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before term... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...serious anguish and an aching head : Then drop at last, but in unwilling ears. This saving ctansel — "Keep your piece nine years." " Nine years !" (cries he, who, high in Druryfane, Luli'dby soft zephyrs through the broken pane. Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before term... | |
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