 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 страници
...Line 12 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. Line 15, Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Line... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 страници
...the man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken' d walls * John Searle, Pope's servant. t Formerly a sanctuary... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 страници
...the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to TWIC'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me,... | |
 | 1867 - 672 страници
...serious business of life in an Advocate's or law-agent's office in Aberdeen. He was not, perhaps, ' A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross.' He even derived some benefit afterwards from a little acquaintance with the language of law-process... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 страници
...Is there a parson much be-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 ? Is there la! who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls? All fly... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страници
.... . 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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" (1735), line 19. Is there a Parson, much be-mus'd in Beer, A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd...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 страници
...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 maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross! 
