 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 ページ
...dinner-time. Is there a parson much bemused in beer A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross Who pens a stanza when he should engross? Is there who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls f All fly to Twit'nam,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 ページ
...2. Is there a parson much he-mused in beer, A maudlin" poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross t Is there10" who, locked from ink and paper, scrawh With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 ページ
...parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin13 poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, fore-doomed his fathers soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? Is there18" who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls ?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 ページ
...catch me just at dinner time. Is there a parson much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,...there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 ページ
.... . Is there a Parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross? Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls, With desp'rate charcoal round his darkened walls? All fly to Twit-nam,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 ページ
...time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross? Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls? 20 All fly to... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 1798 - 448 ページ
...nearest the English border. 48. Chitty-face or baby-face. 49. Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, altered: "A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, / Who pens a stanza, when he should engross" (lines 17-18). 50. Should be une belle soiree: one beautiful evening. 5 1 . A bird that frequents the... | |
 | Edward L. Bond - 2004 - 590 ページ
...Arbuthnot" (1735), line 19. Is there a Parson, much be-mus'd in Beer, A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd his Father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza when he should engross? The Truth of it is, where there is a Strong Presumption, that a Youth, when he shall have attained... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 ページ
...dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darkened walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM,... | |
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A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross? 
