 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 Seiten
...fine-spun theories into lumber, little better than nonsense. However, like the' rest of my countrymen, With sad civility, I read, With honest anguish and an aching head. To counteract the constitutionalists, the disaffected to the revolution were invited to fall into the... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 530 Seiten
...fine-spun theories into lumber, little better than nonsense. However, like the rest of my countrymen, With sad civility, I read, With honest anguish and an aching head. To counteract the constitutionalists, the disaffected to the revolution were invited to fall into the... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 488 Seiten
...speaking of the disagreeable manner in which he was pestered by authors to read their MSS., writes : — I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish,...counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." " Nine years 1" cries he, who high in Drury Lane, Lulled by soft zephyrs through the window-pane, Rhymes ere he... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...will not lie ; To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." 40 "Nine years!" cries he, who high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane,... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 Seiten
...who will not lie : To laugh were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish and with aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 Seiten
...who will not lie : To laugh were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish and with aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 Seiten
...will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he, who high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the brokenpane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 Seiten
...lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power efface. I ait with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish, and...nine years.' ' Nine years !' cries he, who, high in Drury-Iane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 Seiten
...goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. 1 sit with sad civility, I rend With honest anguish and an aching head, And drop at...' Nine years !' cries he, who, high in DrUry Lane, Lulled by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before term ends, Obliged... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 Seiten
...were coming; and the remaining part of the line, " many an idle song," in a ludicrous manner. Then drop, at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, "Keep your piece nine years."* Advising. " Nine years!" cries he, who high in Drury-lane, Offence with Lull'd by soft zephyrs through... | |
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And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, 
