 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 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... | |
 | John Adams - 1927 - 198 sivua
...Mankind would but seriously consider it, is worth as much as your kine Pock Inoculation. Dean Swift's Yahoos are not half so instructive as your Westphalia...Parties I have ever known. I am your steady Friend. QUINCY, May 3Oth, '15. WATERHOUSE, — You made that Westphalian Couplet yourself. Sleeping or waking,... | |
 | 1924 - 348 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.... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 sivua
...VIII Augustan voice and Augustan verse 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. Asked what is the most characteristic sort of verse employed by the Augustans, any reader... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1920 - 274 sivua
...brevity—to illustrate from Dean 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." And the warning of the praised Pope I shall heed, not to write that which must be understood,... | |
 | Charles A. Knight - 2004 - 327 sivua
...illustrate the interpretive difficulty: 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." Why must I be outdone... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1920 - 276 sivua
...brevity — to illustrate from Dean 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." And the warning of the praised Pope I shall heed, not to write that which must be understood,... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2005 - 465 sivua
...these two standard sources. 10 "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": see Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, in Selected Poems, ed. A. Norman Jeffares (London:... | |
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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! 
