 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - Liczba stron: 510
...parents' or my own 7 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | 1846 - Liczba stron: 670
...Arbuthnot :' — " As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came ; , I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed." He told Spence that he had begun writing verses farther back than he could well remember.... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1847 - Liczba stron: 634
...AUTHOR OF " VELASCO, A TKAOEDY," &c. ION ; IN FIVE ACTS BY THOMAS NOON TALFOURD SERGEANT AT LAW. •" I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed." FROM THE AOTHOH'S LATEST EDITION. With the Stage Directions, Descriptions of Costumes,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - Liczba stron: 524
...parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. 130 NOTES. with his usual humour, is true in tact : " I have observed that a reader seldom... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - Liczba stron: 618
...have pursued the study of that fertile literature with such distinguished success."— SoUTHEV.] 1 [" I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd.'1 — POPE.] 9ö who was solicitous for my more essential interests, as well as benevolently... | |
 | 1847 - Liczba stron: 610
...Pope's own : — " As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed ; The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife; To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - Liczba stron: 646
...parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - Liczba stron: 510
...parents' or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I hsp'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd : The muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease,... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - Liczba stron: 442
...parents', or my own 7 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came : I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disoheyed : The Muse but served to ease '<ome friend, not To help me through this long Disease, my... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - Liczba stron: 586
...Charlotte had to be thankful for such a letter. If she did write poetry, she might truly say with Pope, ' I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed.' Indeed it was because she wished it to be not " an idle trade" that she wrote. Southey,... | |
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And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? 
