| Isaac Disraeli - 1867 - 572 Seiten
...translated by him into English •verse," 1641. Prynne literally verifies Pope's description — " Is there who lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls T' <Ve have also a catalogue of printed books written by Wm. Prynne, of Lincoln's- Inn, Esq., in these... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 Seiten
...Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin *" poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? Is there la! who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls? All fly... | |
| John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 Seiten
...land. Line 5. E'en Sunday shines no sabbath day to me. Line 12. Is there a parson much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pen^ a stanza when he should engross ? Line 15. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 Seiten
...forth the Man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at Dinner-time. Is there a Parson, much bemusM in beer5, 15 A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal0 round his darken'd walls7? 20 All fly to TWIT' N А~м8, and in humble strain Apply... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 Seiten
...peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross 'I Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls...desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to TWIC'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
.... . Is there a Parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross? Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls, With desp'rate charcoal round his darkened walls? All fly to Twit-nam,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 Seiten
...time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross? Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls? 20 All fly to... | |
| Charlotte Smith - 1798 - 448 Seiten
...nearest the English border. 48. Chitty-face or baby-face. 49. Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, altered: "A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, / Who pens a stanza, when he should engross" (lines 17-18). 50. Should be une belle soiree: one beautiful evening. 5 1 . A bird that frequents the... | |
| Edward L. Bond - 2004 - 590 Seiten
...Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" (1735), line 19. Is there a Parson, much be-mus'd in Beer, A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd...to cross, Who pens a Stanza when he should engross? The Truth of it is, where there is a Strong Presumption, that a Youth, when he shall have attained... | |
| W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 Seiten
...dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darkened walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM,... | |
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