 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 - Pagina 21door Alexander Pope - 1751 - 341 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pagina’s
...are apparently quite justified by the facts. But whyit are we to say to such a passage as this ? — 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. Admitting... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1874 - 418 pagina’s
...are apparently quite justified by the facts. But what are we to say to such a passage as this ? — 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. Admitting... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pagina’s
...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 pray'rs; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. O friend!... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pagina’s
...man, with God he pass'd the days; Pray'r all his business, all his pleasure praise. PARNELL: Hermit. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers. POPE. Nor pray'rs nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain : Nor tears, for ages taught... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pagina’s
...read what books I please : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. ( ( say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 pagina’s
...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 asked what next shall see the light? Heavens ! was I born for nothing but to write ? Has life no joys... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pagina’s
...man, with God he pass'd the days; Pray'r all his business, all his pleasure praise. PARNELL: Hermit. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers. POPE. Nor pray'rs nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain : Nor tears, for ages taught... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pagina’s
...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 pray'rs; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pagina’s
...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. Why am I... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 pagina’s
...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. Why am I... | |
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