 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 sivua
...Swift, hlrara great condenser, says, " In Pope 1 cannot read a line But with a sigh I wlih It mine ; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six.'* P. CUNNINGHAM. " Death's a destroyer of quotidian prey," and in my friend's Dictionary,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 sivua
...essay on — his own death !— " 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 flt, " I cry — Deuce take him and his wit !" Think me not... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 he outdone... | |
 | 1852 - 874 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine : sides. Come, and trip it, as you go, On do in six ; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 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 humurous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend,... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 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 Johnson - 1854 - 512 sivua
...ever had such an illustrious imitator. 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. SWIFT: On Poetry. A Rhapsody. No one ever threw so much sense, together with .so nmch ease,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 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, J cry " Pox take him and his wit f I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 sivua
...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 Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 sivua
...and Lopez's sprightly strain. SWIFT. 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. Pope's filial piety excels Whatever Grecian story tells. Send those to paper-sparing Pope;... | |
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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! 
