 The impression we receive is of a feverish struggle for literary existence, a terrible pressure of the poetical population on the means of subsistence. 'Pope writes: — When sick of muse our follies we deplore And promise our best friends to write no...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 3171927Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 358 pages
...more Fibs than I; When fick of Mufe, our follies we deplore, And promife our beil Friends to rhyme no more} We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to ihovv our Wit. 180 k He ferv'da 'Prenticeihip, who fets up ihop; Ward try'd on Puppies, and the Poor,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 290 pages
...more Fibs than I; When fick of Mufe, our follies we deplore, And promife our beft Friends to rhyme no more; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to (how our Wit. 180 k He ferv'da 'Prenticefbip, who fets up {hop; Ward try'd on Puppies, and the Poor,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...more Fibs than I; When fick of Mufe, our follies we deplore, And promife our beft Friends to rhyme no more; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to fhow our Wit. 180 k He ferv'da 'Prenticelhip, who fets up mop; Ward try'd on Puppies, and the Poor,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 272 pages
...more Filbs than I; When lick of Mufe, our follies we deplore, And promife our beft Friends to rhyme no more ; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to mow our Wit. 180 k He ferv'da 'Prenticefhip, who fets up {hop; Ward try'd on Puppies, and the Poor,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 360 pages
...Fibs than I; When fick of Mufe, or follies we deplore, And promife our beft Friends to rhyme no morej We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to mow our Wit. 180 NOTES. " Englilh madnefs, but by Englilh Wifdom and Englilh " fpifmg Life and Death,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 418 pages
...more Fibbs than I ; When fick of Mufe, our follies we deplore, And promife our bcli Friends to rhyme no more ; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to fhow our Wit. zget k He ferv'da 'Prenticefhip, who lets up fhop ; Ward try'd on Puppies, and the Poor,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 392 pages
...than I; When fick of Mufe, our follies we deplore, And promife our beft Friends .to rhyme no more j "We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to ftiow our Wit. jgo k He ferv'da 'Prenticeftiip, who fets up mop ; Ward try'd on Puppies, and the Poor,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779
...When fick of Mufe, cur follies we deplore, And promife our belt Friends to rhyme no more ; We w^ke next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to (how our Wit. 180 k He ferv'da 'Prenticeihip, who fcts up (hop ; Ward try'd on Puppies, and the Poor,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 400 pages
...more Fibbs than I; When fick of Mufe, our follies we deplore, And promife our Vjeft Friends to rhyme no more; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to fliow our Wit. 180 k He ferv'da 'Prenticefhip, who fets up fhop; Ward try'd on Puppies, and the Poor,... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 492 pages
...niinui damnosa libido, Mutjvit mentem populus levis, * et calel uw iğul sen c ci Lena muic uus limn i. When sick of Muse, our follies we deplore, And promise our best friends to rhyme no m We wake next morning in a raging til, And call for pen and ink, to show our wit. i He serv'da... | |
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