 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pagina’s
...England as in France : — the art is general. 23 Arthur. Arthur Moore, Esq. is Warburton's elucidation. 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 ?... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 474 pagina’s
...when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend DrArhuthnot, * Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an iule son s ! Howvll has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the tim<'S,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pagina’s
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And cuEses X ¤ Yx 9/[ O \ +` =r l w song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which mast end me, .. fool's wrath or love ?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 320 pagina’s
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prulong, ^he world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which... | |
 | Francis Mahony - 1836 - 696 pagina’s
...mao-azines. Sad abortions ! on which even you, O Queen sometimes take compassion, infusing into them a life " Which did not you prolong, * The world had wanted many an idle song." To return to his conversational powers : he did n waste them on the generality of folks, for... | |
 | Johann Sporschil - 1838 - 510 pagina’s
...boppclre SBeife in einen п'ф tigcn umgereonbelt roerbcn. 2)ке gilt oon meíjrm bet folgenben @á|c. which did not you prolong , . the world had wanted many an idle song. The innovation in the military system was quickly followed -by another, which the custom of employing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pagina’s
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses U R X!R UNN song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove Î Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ?... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pagina’s
...had he been invited. Be that as it will. I only done one exercise. His arguments were what follow. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Poverty turns our thoughts too much on the supplying our wants, and riches on the enjoying our... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - 1839 - 398 pagina’s
...there is no hope of lucre."* * Life of Sir S. Garth. Pope, in his epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, says, " Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." Dryden, in his " Postscript " to the translation of Virgil, pays a high compliment to his own... | |
 | 1843 - 678 pagina’s
...expressed himself twice with generous warmth in grateful acknowledgment of the skill of his friend : — « Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song)." And, a little further on, he pathetically sings, — " The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend,... | |
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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? 
