 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pàgines
...unknown 125 Dipt me in ink) my parents'* or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. 13© The Mufe but ferv'd to eafe fome friend, not Wife, To help me thro' this long difeafe,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pàgines
...unknown 125 Dipt me in ink, my parents') or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. 130 The Mufe but ferv'd to eafe fome friend, not Wife, To help me thro' this long difeafe,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 pàgines
...unknown 125 Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. 130 The Mufe but ferv'd to cafe fome friend, not Wife, To help me thro' this long difeafe,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pàgines
...contrived to have all the adtors dreiTed after ihe pictures in his favourite Ogilby. At twelve he went with I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. 130 The Mufe but ferv'd to cafe fome friend, not Wife, To he,lp me thro' this long difeafe,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 pàgines
...flattery was as odious to him when there was feme ground for commendation, as when there was none. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'4. The Mufe but ferv'd to eafe feme friend, not Wife, To help me thro' this long difesfe, my... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pàgines
...ipfe reliquit opes Sponte fua carmen numeros veniebat ad aptos, Et quod conabar fcribere, verfus erat. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd ; While yet a child, e'er yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 360 pàgines
...with verfes of his own. He had the addrefs to perfuade the upper boys to aft it ; he even prevailed on I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. 130 The Mufe butferv'd to eafefome friend, not Wife, To help me thro' this long difeafe,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pàgines
...reliquit opes Sponte fua carmen numeros veniebat ad aptos, Et quod conabar fcribere, verfus erat. OVID. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd; While yet a child, e'er yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE.... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 pàgines
...ia the epiftle above mentioned, that he broke no duty, nor difobeyed any parent by commencing poet I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd.' By the time he was fifteen, having made a very refpe&able proficiency in the learned languages,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 pàgines
...in the epiftle above mentioned, that he broke no duty, nor difobeyed any parent by commencing poet " I left no calling for this idle trade, " No duty broke, no father difobey'd." By the time he was fifteen, having made a very refpe&able proficiency in the learned languages,... | |
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And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? 
