 | 1898 - 788 Seiten
...upon theearth. J. RUSKIN. POPE AU Dr ARBUTHNOT Friend to my Life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum...fool's wrath, or love? A dire dilemma! either way l'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and tied down to judge, how wretched... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1995 - 562 Seiten
...curse? Say, is their Anger, or their Friendship worse?" (1l. 29-30) The lines were later changed to: "What Drop or Nostrum can this Plague remove? Or which must end me, a Fool's Wrath or Love?" (The Poems of Alexander Pope (Twickenham Edition), ed. John Butt, 12 vols., 1939-69.) 6 RH refers to... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 Seiten
..."Slaver" and "Venom" (106, 320) of the morally deranged, driven to the point of the death of the soul ("either way I'm sped, / If Foes, they write, if Friends, they read me dead" [31-32]). "What Drop or Nostrum," he pleads to Dr. Arbuthnot, "can this Plague remove?" (29). It is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 Seiten
...wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum...remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? 30 A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 Seiten
...wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum...remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? 248 A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized... | |
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And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped.... 
