 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 страници
...what friends and read what books I 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 ; VOL. v. N Can sleep without a poem in my bead, Nor know if Dennis be alive or dead.... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 страници
...friends, and read what books I please : Above a patron, tho' 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. • A ses... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 страници
...and read what books I please : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister try 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, Nnr know if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 страници
...have eyes upon him, and hU affaire* come to me on the wind : where is he now? Shakxp. Ant.tf Cleop. I was not born for courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and suy my prayers. Pope. A good acquaintance with method will greatly assist every one, in ranging, disposing,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 страници
...and read what books I please : Above a patron, though 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 страници
...friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister s and painted cluYfs admire Our speech, our colour, and our strange attire ! Oh stre say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 страници
...enough to live quite at our ease : when I desire more than that, may I lose what I have 1 " — E.] 2 " 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." TO SIR... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 страници
...friends, and read what books I please : Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister , And therefore haled, therefore so beset With fbes, for daring single to l>e just, say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head. Nor know, if Dennis be olive or dead. Why am... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 страници
...and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister ray he leads : Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow, Amid the verdant landscape flow. say my prayers ; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis he alive or dead. Why am... | |
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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. 
