 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...Is there a parson, much be-mus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls?... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 530 pages
...comprehends a multitudinous company, in its presentation, a representative one, of " A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." That fathers have flinty hearts, is almost as trite and threadbare a truism of sentimental complaint... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...12. Is there a parson much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? Line 15. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Line... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1875 - 804 pages
...addition to the museum of literary curiosities. Poetry could ill afford to spare the Clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Petrarch was a law-student — and an idle one — at Bologna. Goldoni, till he turned strolling player,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...12. Is there a parson much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? Line 15. Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Line... | |
 | 1875 - 822 pages
...addition to the museum of literary curiosities. Poetry could ill afford to spare Clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Petrarch was a law-student — and an idle one — at Bologna. Goldoni, till he turned strolling player,... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...Is there a parson, much be-mus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...Parnassus glancing o'er at once, Behold a hundred sons, and each a dunce. POPE. A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. POPE. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. POPE. Fired at first... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 392 pages
...obtain 1 Barney's ' History of Music,' vol. iv. p. 655. * Ibid., pp. 655, 656. " A clork, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." — Pope. from Michael Festing, an eminent performer on that instrument, the future composer may be... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls?... | |
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All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. 
