 Say, for my comfort, languishing in bed, 'Just so immortal Maro held his head'; And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?  Satires and Epistles - Side 27av Alexander Pope - 1872 - 164 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Alexander Pope - 1885 - 68 sider
...disgrac'd my Betters, met in me. 120 Say for my comfort, languishing in bed, " Just so immortal Metro held his head." And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipt me in ink, my parents',... | |
 | 1889 - 72 sider
...'88 " Who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright." The Renaissance of '89, - - - - HW Vernon, '89 "Why did I write? What sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink ?" Detroit, - - - - - HF Walker, '89 " He's tough, ma'am — tough and devilish sly." The guests were,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1885 - 72 sider
...of Pope's letters to Cromwell had been printed by Curll in 1726, without; the author's permission. Such Ovid's nose, and " Sir! you have an Eye " —...And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipt me in ink, my parents',... | |
 | 1892 - 728 sider
...let me see All that disgraced my betters, met in me ; Say for my comfort, languishing in bed, i;Ju<t so immortal Maro held his head," And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago.' Yet the fact remains that poets, however warmly they may protest against... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 sider
...have an eye." — Go on, obliging creatures, make me see, All that disgraced my betters, met in me. Say for my comfort, languishing in bed, "Just so immortal...And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents',... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 sider
...Boulter. 113. Letters] Some of P's letters had been surreptitiously printed by Curll in 1726. Amman's great Son one shoulder had too high, Such Ovid's nose,...years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipt me in Ink, my Parents', or my own ? As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, I lisp'd in Numbers,... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 sider
...that disgrac'd my Betters, met in me: Say for my comfort, languishing in bed, 'Just so immortal Mara held his head:' And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. With cynical amusement Pope calls on Arbuthnot (and the reader) to judge the lowness of the minds that... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sider
...throughout the poem, which moves with great speed and variety. The justification of his writingWhy did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? which goes on to tell how Walsh, Congreve, and others encouraged him as a youngster, is done with a... | |
 | Janet Sternburg - 1980 - 240 sider
...from outside? Probably not. The nearest approach is to try and sec how she has become what she is: Why did I write? What sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents or my own? It would seem that all writers draw heavily on their early experience but in different ways. Some directly... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1994 - 290 sider
...as a poet has brought him, so much so that he wonders whether by writing he is doing penance—"Why did I write, what sin to me unknown, / Dipt me in ink, my Parents', or my own?" 5 In much the same way, Hunt conceives his political writing as a vocation so hellish that it might... | |
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