 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 836 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 Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 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;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 638 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... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope l 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 sivua
...Yet, when yon 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 jealoua fit, I cry : • Pox take htm and his wit.1 I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 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... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 200 sivua
...higher. On the Death of Dr. Swift. 1 1 r 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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