 | 1809 - 402 ページ
...bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A dirk, rorcdoora'd his father's soul to cross, Win pens a stanza when he should engross? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? AH fly to Twit'nam, and in hnmble strain Apply to me,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 ページ
...of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-mus'd in beer, A mandlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanaa when he should engross ? Is there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 ページ
...the man of Happy! to catch me just at dinner time, [rhyme, Is there a Parson, much bemus'd in beer, Theseus died. But he, erase, Who pens a Stanza when he should eitffrosi? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 ページ
...at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bcmus'd in beer, A maudlm poetess, a rhyming peer, A cl< rk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engro«s ? Is there! who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkcn'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 ページ
...observation, used to mention many pleasing instances. VOI.. III. 42 Is there a parson much be-mus'd in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain 2 1 Apply to... | |
 | 1814 - 670 ページ
...us in hoping that he may in time write better. From one of his sonnets it appears that he is " Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should, engross." This information is conveyed in the following beautiful lines, with which we shall gratify our readers... | |
 | 1814 - 678 ページ
...us in hoping that he may in time write better. From one of his sonnets it appears that he is " Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." This information is conveyed in the following beautiful lines, with which we shall gratify our readers... | |
 | 1814 - 676 ページ
...he may in time write better. From one of his sonnets it appears that he is " Some clerk, fbredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." This information is conveyed in the following beautiful lines, with which we shall gratify our readers... | |
 | George Daniel - 1815 - 130 ページ
...BARRETT'S * doggrel be preferr'd to mine ; * Mr. Eaton Standard Barrett, Student of the Inner Temple , A Clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engrots. No threats can sway me, no opinions bend, I care not; — let them censure or commend. Yet... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 ページ
...burns, Yet bliss, through each, must centre in the mind. 20 TO MRS. HM BOWDLER. " A clerk, foredoomed his Father's soul to cross, ** Who pens a stanza when he should engross." POPE. — " Prologue to Satires." Too long, dear Aunt, has cold neglect delay'd, What earlier gratitude... | |
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Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me just at Dinner-time. 
