 | 1843 - Počet stránok 678
...twice with generous warmth in grateful acknowledgment of the skill of his friend : — « Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song)." And, a little further on, he pathetically sings, — " The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - Počet stránok 524
...praise — Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song,) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? 30 A dire... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - Počet stránok 376
...had not been for Arbuthnot, posterity might Lave been deprived of a great deal of Pope. " Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song ;" says he, in his Epistle to the Doctor. And Dryden, in the " Postscript" to his translation of "... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - Počet stránok 646
...the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire... | |
 | William Beattie - 1850 - Počet stránok 544
...spasmodic affection on the outside of my heart which much afflicted me. I may well say of Dr. Beattie — ' Friend of my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song ! — but I beg to remark, that I allude to pain on the outside of my heart In the inside of my heart... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - Počet stránok 52
...shall be your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend — " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to write some... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - Počet stránok 510
...the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a. fool's wrath or love 1 A dire... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - Počet stránok 442
...the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song, What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? 0 dire... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1851 - Počet stránok 54
...!' shall be your last." How beautiful is the couplet to Dr. Arbuthnot, his physician and friend— " Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song." How ingenious that to the famous Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, on being desired to write some... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1851 - Počet stránok 518
...Pope, when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend Dr Arbuthnot, ' Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an Idle song ! Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in Ihe taste of the times, and he there... | |
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Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? 
