| 1878 - 446 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 pray'rs; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. Why am I... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 страници
...man, with God he pass'd the days; Pray'r all his business, all his pleasure praise. PARNELL: Hermit. I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers. POPE. Nor pray'rs nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain : Nor tears, for ages taught... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 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. Why am I... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 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. Why am I... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 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 pray'rs; 4 Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 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. Why am I... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1881 - 196 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 pray'rs; Can sleep without a poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1881 - 608 страници
...what hooks I please : Above a patron, though I condescend 265 Sometimes to call a minister my friend.3 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.4 ::n "Why... | |
| Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 страници
...friends, aiid 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. Not fortune's... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 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; 1 This is Pope's famous satire upon Addison. » What is the allusion? Can sleep without... | |
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