 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope 1 cannot read a line, But, with a sigh, I wish it mine: When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh £ wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six ; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | Ebenezer Mack - 1824 - 276 sivua
...when you sink, I seem the higher, (n Pope I cannot read a line, But, with a sigh, I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, ft gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" \iid when it cleared... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824
...Yet when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line But, with a sigh, I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, ' Pox take -him and his wit !' I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 380 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine ; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six ; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six. I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six. I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine : is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That do in six ; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 807 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine : rmor watch : on smooth the seal, And bended dolphins do in six ; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine. When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone... | |
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In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a Sigh I wish it mine ; When He can in one Couplet fix More Sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous Fit, I cry "Pox take him and his Wit! 
