 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...let me know Great Homer dy'd three thoufand years ago. Why did I write ? what fin to me unknown 125 Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a...this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. 130 y The Mufe but ferv'd to cafe fome friend, not Wife, To help me thro' this long difeafe, my Life,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 358 pages
...let me know Great Homer dy'd three thoufand years ago. Why did I write ? what fin to me unknown 125 Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a...to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. VARIATIONS. After $ 124. ¡n the MS. But, Friend, this fhape, which You and Curl a admire, Came not... | |
 | 1751 - 222 pages
...erat. I left no calling for this idle trade; No duty broke, no father difobey'd: While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. — This plain floor, Believe me, Reader, can fay no more Than many a braver marble can, Here lies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...let me know Great Homer dy'd three thoufand years ago. Why did I write ? what fin to me unknown 125 Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a...to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. VARIATIONS. After f 124. in the MS. But, friend, this fhape, which You and Curl' admire, Came not from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 pages
...let me know Great Homer dy'd three thoufand years ago. Why did I write ? what (in to me unknown iae Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a...to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. VARIATION i. After VIR. 154. in the MS. But friend, this fliape, which You and Curl * admire, Carre... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd ; While yet a child, e'er yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE. -- . This plain floor, $ See the fruitless and impudent attack of Lauder on Milton. tN° 143.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 272 pages
...die, be fare you let me know Great Hon-.er dy'd three thoufand years ago. Why did I wlhe '. what Jin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifjp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. VARIATIONS. After VER. 124. in the MS. But friend, this fhape,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 360 pages
...held his head :" And when I die, be fure you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thoufand years ago. Why did I write ? what fin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? 126 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I liip'd in numbers, for the numbers came. VARIATIONS*... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...in the epiftle above mentioned, that he broke no duty, nor difobeyed any parent by commencing poet " I left no calling for this idle trade, " No duty broke, no father difobey'd." M By the time he was fifteen, having made a very refpedtable proficiency in the learned languages,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...epiftle above mentioned, that he broke no duty, nor difobeyed any parent by commencing poet——~ " I left no calling for this idle trade, " No duty broke, no father difobey'd." By the time he was fifteen, having made a very refpe&able proficiency in the learned languages, he... | |
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Why did I write ? what fin, to me unknown, Dipt me in ink, my parents or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd 
