 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 страници
...friends, and read what books, I please; Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Deunis be alive or dead. Why am I... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 страници
...friends, and read what books, I please , Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, 'Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. Has life... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 страници
...fricmls.imd read what boo kslpleast. Above a patron, tho' 1 condescend Sometimes to call a minister ain say my prav'rs; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be. alive or dead. Why am I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 страници
...friends, and read what books I please : Above a patron, tho' I condescend 265 Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs ; Can sleep without a poem in my head. Nor know, if -Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 страници
...friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 страници
...friends, and read what books, I Above a patron, though I condescend [please ; Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 страници
...and read what books, I please : Above a Patron, tho' I condescend 265 Sometimes to call a Minister my friend. I was not born for Courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs ; Can sleep without a Poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 VARIATIONS.... | |
 | 1822 - 440 страници
...of the most refreshing beings in the world. He may generally say (as Pope writes to Arbnthnot) — " I was not born for Courts, or great affairs— " I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers." Fed. 1022. Ff T. MUSICAL SPORTING, or BALLAD SINGING RECOLLECTIONS. To the Editor... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страници
...friends, and read what books I please : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister wassailers; yet oh, where else Shall I inform my unacquainted feet In the blind mazes say my prayers; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 страници
...friends, and read what books I please : Above a patron, tho' I condescend 265 Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for Courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
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Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. 
