Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month; and Gay A week ; and Arbuthnot a day. St John himself will scarce forbear, To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry I'm sorry;... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 214von Alexander Pope - 1853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 516 Seiten
...wortuy friend, no poor relation ? So ready to do strangars good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood ! Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day .... My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to act their parts, Beceive the news... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 Seiten
...walks and courts the Muse." Swift, anticipating the effect of his death on different friends, said : " Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day." Pope's last letter to Swift, in 1740, when his friend was weak and helpless, was so expressive of sincere... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 654 Seiten
...walks and courts the Muse." Swift, anticipating the effect of his death on different friends, said : " Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day." Pope's last letter to Swift, in 1740, when his friend was weak and helpless, was so expressive of sincere... | |
| 1889 - 610 Seiten
...in which he chose to anticipate the way in which his friends would receive the news of his decease. 'Poor Pope will grieve a month and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his tongue and drop a tear, The rest will give a shrug... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 592 Seiten
...how amiably she took it. Upon the same principle, he tells us in the verses on his death that Friend Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. This was to vex them, and make them prove his words false by complaining of their injustice. He himself... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1889 - 604 Seiten
...mingled pathos and bitterness give both the glow of passion and the unmistakable stamp of truth : — ' Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day, St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen and drop a tear, The rest will give a shrug and... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 586 Seiten
...how amiably she took it. Upon the same principle, he tells us in the verses on his death that Friend Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. This was to vex them, and make them prove his words false by complaining of their injustice. He himself... | |
| James Hay - 1891 - 392 Seiten
...Cries Bob, I'm sorry for the news. Here shift the scene to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. * Mrs. Howard, at one time a favourite with the Dean. 1 3U SWIFT. St. John himself will scarce forbear... | |
| John Morley - 1894 - 630 Seiten
...perfect confidence in his friend's affection. Poor Pope, as he says in the verses on his own death, — " Will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day ;" and they were the only friends to whom he attributes sincere sorrow. Meanwhile two volumes of Miscellanies,... | |
| Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 Seiten
...Grub Street at the chance of passing off rubbish by calling it his. His friends are really touched. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day, St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen aud drop a tear, The rest will give a shrug and... | |
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