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" A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep... "
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq;: Faithfully ... - Page 79
by William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...engross Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'!) 1 must also acknowledge, with infinite pleasure, the many friendly offices, as well as sincer whose giddy son neglects the law? , Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...pens a stanza when he should engross ? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls All fly to Twit'nam,...strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, . Imputes to me avid my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...pens a stanza when he should engross ; Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate it your admiration call, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his...
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walJs ? n hill. Now I g«iu the mount,-! in' v brow, » What a landscape lies below ! No . . , Who shamef a scribbler? Break one cobweb througb, He spins the slight, teli'-pleasing thread,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...engross ? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round hisdarken'd walls? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain. Arthur,3 whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...a stanza, when he should engross ? Is 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 21 Apply to me to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls I All fly to TWIT'XAM, / whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...pens a stanza when he should engross? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam,...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 : Poor Cornus sees his...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...day to me ; Then from the mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble 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 : Poor Cornus sees his...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken' J Son, etc. whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his...
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