 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...Is there a parson, much hemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, n rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his cts @! ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls... | |
 | Literature - 1875 - 860 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. Goldini, till he turned strolling player,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...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 ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...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 ? Is there, who, lock'd from infc and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...there a parson much bemused in beer, 15 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 desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...dinner-time. Is there a mortal much bemused 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... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...dinner-time. Is there a mortal much bemused 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... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1848 - 316 pages
...although he may not literally have realised Pope's couplet, and have been — " A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross," he yet exhibited an early bias towards literature, but the severer Clio — modern scholiasts write... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...is there a parson much be-mused 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 desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...Is there a parson much he-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross 1 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. 
