 | John Dennis - 1883 - 432 sivua
...half, retain all their freshness.* * " In I'ope I cannot read a line Hut with a sigh I wish it mine ; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can <lo in six." (Swift.) The poem is a mistake, for the subject was beyond the grasp of the poet ; but... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 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 witj^ I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 sivua
...of praising him — that was all. ' 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 !" ' Swift would say this... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 738 sivua
...study his grammar. — JONATHAN 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. — Ibid. He [Dryden] died, nevertheless, in a good old age, possessed of the kingdom of... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1886 - 480 sivua
...Twickenham," Poe quoted Swift's stanza: " In Pope I cannot md a line Bui with a sigh I wish it mine, When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six." „— Much good literary work was done by Poe and the other Knickerbocker writers, that... | |
 | Lady Jane Maria Grant Strachey, Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - 376 sivua
...you sink, I seem the higher P °P«- 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!" Gay I grieve to be... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 sivua
...BUCEINGHAM : On Mr. Popt and his Poems In Hope 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 !' SWIFT : On the Death... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 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 wii !' I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 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. SWIFT. Pope's filial piety excels Whatever Grecian story tells. Send those to paper-sparing... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the highex, In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I w1sh 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' 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! 
