 Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month; and Gay A week ; and Arbuthnot a day. St John himself will scarce forbear, To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry I'm sorry;...  The Warner Library - Página 6176editado por - 1917Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 páginas
...how amiably she took it. Upon the same principle, he tells us in the verses on his death, that Friend Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. This was to vex them, and make them prove his words false by complaining of their injustice. He himself... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 páginas
...Pope must bear, as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 páginas
...Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug,... | |
 | 1852 - 874 páginas
...'Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. d St, John himself will scarce forbear ITo bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 páginas
...present he had sent to the princess. Here shift the scene to represent, How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 páginas
...Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene , to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month , and Gay A week , and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen , and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug,... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 páginas
...Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 384 páginas
...subject." When we recollect Swift's anticipation of the eifect of his own death among his friends— Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day, this expression of the grief of the Duchess of Queensberry, so long after the loss of her friend, is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 378 páginas
...certain levity of feeling, with all his goodness, when he says, in anticipation of his own death, " Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day!'' though the habitual cheerfulness of his disposition may have been all that the poet had in his eye.... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 páginas
...Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug,... | |
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