 | Charles Whibley - 1917 - 64 sivua
...confession in the poem 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. But otherwise his comradeship knows no restraint. Not unnaturally it is with Bolingbroke... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 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, Tox take him and his wit!' I grieve to be outdone... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 428 sivua
...short of marvelous — said 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 Weakness. — Yet the readers who to-day give Pope high rank as a poet are not numerous.... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 342 sivua
...it turned to the service of flattery: 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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 322 sivua
...it turned to the service of flattery: 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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 sivua
...it turned to the service of flattery: 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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 sivua
...it turned to the service of flattery: 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... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1921 - 232 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 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... | |
 | University of Texas - 1925 - 232 sivua
...conversation with his father, Swift's lines, — "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." 20Miss Margaret Alterton in her recent study of the Origins of Poe's Critical Theory, pp.... | |
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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! 
