 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...aspiration, " I, too, am a poet." Pone adopts with apparent sincerity the Ovidian phrase, As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. His father corrected his early performances and when not satisfied, sent him back with the phrase,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 726
...promise, serv'd no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend.* Ib. iv. As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Epistle to Dr. Arbutfmot, line 128. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...others' breath, A thing beyond us, e'en before our death. Pope, E. Af. iv. 237. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Pope, Sat. Prol.\27. Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call : She comes unlocked for, if she comes at... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 298
...; MHG rim. Cp. Lat. numerus (i) a number, (2) musical measure ; hence Pope's ' As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.' Prol. Sat. 127. The meaning, and later spelling of the word (rhyme), have been influenced by Lat. rhythmus,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 176
...Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. \ I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. 130 To second, Arbuthnot!... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd ; The muse but serv'd to... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 914
...Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipt' me in ink, my parents' or my own ? As yet a child, nor m the bosom of others. s. BENTHAM. Hard —Prologue to ¿Satire. Line 125. 'Tis not how well an author says; But 'tis how much, that gathers... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, — my parents' or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd; The muse but serv'd to ease... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 926
...did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt' me in ink, my parents' or my own ''. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. j. POPE — Prohijan to Satire. Line 125. Tis not how well an author says; But 'tis how much, that... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 954
...Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt' me in ink, my parents' or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. (Pope. PRAYER. Father of life and light ! Thou Good Supreme ! Save me from folly, vanity and vice, From every... | |
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And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in Ink, my parents, or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left... 
