 | Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - 1864 - 504 ページ
...limbs and to preserve these ejes.' In another poem, addressing Dr. Arbuthnot, he says : " ' Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song.' When a country is invaded by a fatal epidemic, when " 'the blessed teals That close the pestilence... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 ページ
...peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Line 15, Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Line 27. Obliged by hunger and request of friends. Line 44. Fired that the house rejects him,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1866 - 388 ページ
...our Republican court so memorably attractive. DOCTORS. Throw physic to the dogs. MACBETH. Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. POPE. the moving panoramas of cities are to be seen certain vehicles of all degrees of locomotive... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1866 - 570 ページ
...when 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 songt Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the times, and he... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 ページ
...your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend — " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song !" How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chostcrfk-ld, on being desired to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 ページ
...him his " stannch and inestimable friend," and on a long prior occasion thus greets him : " Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an Idle song." \ He was naturally proud of being a clansman of the Clan-Campbells: Lady Charlotte Campbell... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 ページ
...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...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 ?... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 426 ページ
...with a caress : to the mother, who had watched over his troubled childhood ; and to the physician : Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song ; 21 without whose affectionate art and care even his faithful Muse would have been too hard tasked,... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 ページ
...laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, song) ! What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love... | |
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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? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? 
