 Oh let me live my own, and die so too! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.  The Works of Alexander Pope Esq - Seite 21von Alexander Pope - 1751 - 341 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 Seiten
...I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light ? Heavens! was I born for nothing but to write ? Has life no joys... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 Seiten
...read what books I please : Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend, I was not born for courts or great affairs : I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. • A ses... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 Seiten
...friends and read what books I Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; VOL. v. N Can sleep without a poem in my bead, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 Seiten
...what books I please : Above a patron, tho' I condescend 265 Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for Courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 Seiten
...what books I please : Above a patron, tho' I condescend 265 Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for Courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...read what books I please : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. yet oh, where else Shall I inform my unacquainted feet In the blind mazes say my prayers; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...was not bom for eourts, or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; ( 'an sleep s all her homely eheer : Brown bread, and Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light ? ' Heavens ! was I bom for nothing but to write ? Has... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 Seiten
...was not born for courts or great affairs ; 1 pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light? Heavens ! was I born for nothing but to write? Has life... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 Seiten
...Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse, and Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn ! Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light t Heavens 1 was I born for nothing but to write t Has... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 Seiten
...not born for courts or great aiiairs: I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers; Can sleep wihout a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light ? Heavens ! was I born for nothing but to write ? Has... | |
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