 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
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 pages
...to rehearsals throng, And all our grace at table is a song. I, who so oft renounce the muses, lie, When sick of Muse, our follies we deplore, And promise our best friends to rhyme no more; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to show our wit. Not... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 pages
...grace at table is a song. To theatres, and to rehearsals throng, I, who so oft renounce the muses, lie, When sick of Muse, our follies we deplore, And promise our best friends to rhyme no more; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to show our wit. Not... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - Comparative literature - 1925 - 566 pages
...Horace), vs. 17;>-180 : I who so oft renounce the Muses, lie, Not —'s self e'er tells more fibs than 1; When sick of Muse, our follies we deplore, And promise our best friends lo rhyme no more ; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink lo show our wit,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 pages
...table is a Song. I, who so oft renounce the Muses, lie, 175 Not 's self e'er tells more Fibs than I ; When sick of Muse, our follies we deplore, And promise our best Friends to rhyme no more; We wake next morning in a raging fit And call for pen and ink to show our Wit. i&> He... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - American essays - 1928 - 184 pages
...by great men to do their dirty work. Then there were private brawls carried on with much ink shed. The impression we receive is of a feverish struggle...morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink and show our wit. For those who cannot write and those who can All rhyme and scrawl and scribble to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...is a Song. I, who so oft renounce the Muses, lye, 175 Not —‘s self e'er tells more Fibs than I; When, sick of Muse, our follies we deplore, And promise our best Friends to ryme no more; Horsemanship :theRomanceof Parthenissa (1654>, by the Earl of Orrery, and most of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...tells morels than I; When sick of muse, or follies we deplore, And promise our best friends to rhyme no more; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to show our wit. He served a 'prenticeship, who sets up shop; Ward tried on puppies, and the poor, his drop ; E'en Radcliffe's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...tells morels than I; When sick of Muse, or follies we deplore, And promise our best friends to rhyme no more; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to show our -wit. He served a 'prenticeship, who sets up shop; Ward 1 tried on puppies, and the poor, Ids drop; E'en... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...at table is a song. I, who so oft renounce the Muses, lie, Not 's self e'er tells more fibs than I; When sick of muse, our follies we deplore, And promise our best friends to rhyme no more; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to show our wit. 180... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...smile : But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man. "When sick of Muse, our follies we deplore, And promise our best friends to rhyme no more ; We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to show our wit. 180... | |
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