 | 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
...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, Who...humble strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain. Arthur,8 whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 ページ
...me— just at dinner time. Is there a parson, much bcmu*'d in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who...scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd wall* .' All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 ページ
...be-mused in bcer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming pcer, A elerk, foredootn'd his father's soul to eross, to the serawls With desperate chareoal round his darken'd walls ! All fly to TWIT'NAH, and in humble strain... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Clifford Siskin - 1999 - 298 ページ
...himself as the unwilling target of aspiring hordes of writers who hope they can ride his fame to market: "All fly to Twit'na.m, and in humble strain /Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain" (21-22). In the later version, however, die gatherer is an "old Man" who invites the leeches onto his... | |
 | 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... | |
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A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross? 
