 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest...nine years." " Nine years !" cries he, who high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...who will not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...in unwilling ears, This saving counsel,' Keep your peace nine years.' ' Nine years!' cries he, who, high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...an aching head ; And drop at last, but in unwilling years, This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." VARIATIONS. Ver. 29 in the first Ed. Dear... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds- all Pow'r of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...an aching head ; And drop at last, but in unwilling years, This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." VARIATIONS. Ver. 29 in the first Ed. Dear... | |
 | Alexander Graydon, John Galt - Pennsylvania - 1822 - 454 pages
...fine-spun theories into lumber, little better than nonsense. However, like the rest of my countrymen, With sad civility I read, With honest anguish and an aching head. To counteract the constitutionalists, the disaffected to the Revolution were invited to fall into the... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...all power of face. I sit, with sad civility ; I read, With serious anguish and an aching head : Then drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel...nine years." " Nine years !" (cries he, who, high in Drurylane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before term... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...will not lie ; To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...nine years." " Nine years !" cries he, who high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...will not lie; To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...nine years." " Nine years!" cries he, who high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...will not lie ; To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest...nine years." " Nine years !" cries he, who high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I ait with sad civility ; I read With b.mest tream, B -/ Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes e'er he wakes, and prints before... | |
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And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, 
