 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 ページ
...Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop of nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 ページ
...works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The...end me, a Fool's wrath or love ? 30 A dire dilemma I either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and tied down to... | |
 | 1822 - 284 ページ
...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 prolong, The...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped; If foes, they write ; if friends, they read me dead. Seized... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 ページ
...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 prolong, The...song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove 1 Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped; If foes, they... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 ページ
...to me. Then, from the mint walks forth the man of rhyme— " Happy to catch me just at dinner-time." Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma !— either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write ; if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 354 ページ
...with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend Dr. Arbuthnot, " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song!" Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the times, and he there... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 ページ
...dainn'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 prolong, The...remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write; if friends, they read me dead. Seized... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 ページ
...his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did you not o'er again ; [the slain. And thrice he routed all...saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ard J A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 ページ
...with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend Dr. Arbuthnot, " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song!" Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the times, and he there... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 ページ
...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 prolong, The...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma t either way I'm sped; If foes, they write ; if friends, they read me dead. Seized... | |
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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? 
