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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 5
by Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pages
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the ...

Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...the man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me, just at dinner-time. is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...time. Is there a parson much he-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross 1 Is there who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls?...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 628 pages
...man of rhyme, Ilappy to catch me !— just at dinner time. Is there a parson, much hemused in heer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd...engross ; Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawhi With desperate charcoal round his darken'd waUij All fly to Twit'nam, and in humhle strain...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy...is her being, Discursive, or intuitive ; discourse desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls I All fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain. Apply to...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 7

Electronic journals - 1853 - 748 pages
...poudre du greft'e un poete naissant." While Pope, in his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, speaks of — " Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." HARRY LEROY TEMPLE. PS — At p. 123. of Vol. vi. are inserted some other parallels, noted by me in...
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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered ...

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pages
...individual allusion than a modern poet, when, in the very same spirit, he wrote the couplet, ic Some Z~Ȧ = 7 ] 2o w k W=j~xW fUm U m ^ Q : > /u ӳb!K n*y X ingross." * It is certain also that Shakespeare wrote with great facility, and that his compositions...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...dinner-time. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? POPE. 250 Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 41

1853 - 820 pages
...phenomenon described by Pope as being so perplexing to parents, namely :— "Л youth foredoomed bis father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." In fact the laudable efforts of the elder Zorilla (a successful lawyer, full of years, business, and...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 41

1853 - 796 pages
...phenomenon described by Pope as being so perplexing to parents, namely :— , "A youth foredoomed Ilia father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." In fact the laudable efforts of the elder Zorilla (a successful lawyer, full of years, business, and...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...,.walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk,...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? 3 20 All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to...
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