 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 sivua
...Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine : W 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 - 1902 - 864 sivua
...\et, 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, II gives me such a jealous fit, I cry: ' Pox take him and his wit.' I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 sivua
...his words alive. Swift said of this: " 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." A few quotations from different poems will further illustrate the value of his couplet... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1905 - 440 sivua
...them the truest compliment : — VOL. IO 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 "plague take him and his wit." I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 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, 50 It gives me such a jealous fit I cry, "Pox take him and his will" I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 sivua
...Plain Satyr upon a Pompous Satyrist. 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, JONATHAN,... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1913 - 370 sivua
...irony of those verses beginning : " 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, ' Plague take him and his wit.' I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 sivua
...of rivalling his friend's verse: " In Pope I cannot read a line But with a sigh I wish it mine, For he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can put in six." Hardly had he passed away, however, when the warmth of his eulogists began to decrease. Cowper charged... | |
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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! 
