 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...darken'd walls ) All fly to Twit'nam, and in humhle strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause i Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. What drop or nostrum... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 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... | |
 | William Beattie - 1850 - 534 pages
...affection on the outside of my heart which much afflicted me. I may well say of Dr. Beattie— ' Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song!— but I beg to remark, that I allude to pain on the outside of my heart. In the inside of my heart all... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 628 pages
...darken'd waUij All fly to Twit'nam, and in humhle strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and...! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted manr an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1851 - 518 pages
...when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend Dr Arbuthnot, ' Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an Idle song ! Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in Ihe taste of the times, and he there... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...walls I All fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain. Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, ituous, and pure, As nearer to him plac'd, or nearer...Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop of nostrum can this plague remove... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 450 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain. Arthur,8 whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my... 
