 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 σελίδες
...sole return My verse, and Queensbury l weeping o'er thy urn ! O, let me live my own,2 and die so too! (To live and die is all I have to do : ) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books, I please; Above a patron, though I condescend Sohietimes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 σελίδες
...same spirit he exclaims in the ' Epistle to Arbuthnot ' : " Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 634 σελίδες
...return My verse, and Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn I Oh let me live my own, and die so too! (To Jive and die is all I have to do :; Maintain a poet's dignity and case, And see what friends, and read what books I please; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes... | |
 | James Hay - 1891 - 390 σελίδες
...spirit of independence, which he embodied in these •words: Oh ! let me-live my own and die so soon ; To live and' die is all I have to do ; Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books, I please. Pope, like Swift, had a large share of good... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 σελίδες
...much. He died worth upwards of ^3000.' As to the Duchess of Queensbury see Moral Essays, II. v. 193.] (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please; Above a Patron, tho' I condescend 765 Sometimes... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 σελίδες
...for much. He died worth upwards of ^3000.' As to the Duchess of Queensbury see Moral Essays, nv 193.] (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please; Above a Patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 σελίδες
...sole return My verse, and QUEENSBERRY weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh let me lire my own, and die so tool (To live and die is all I have to do) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 630 σελίδες
...strangest mixture of honesty and hypocrisy. Let ' • me, he says, live my own, and die so too — " (To live and die is all I have to do) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends and read what books I please !" Well, he was independent in his fashion,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 σελίδες
...free to fall. a. MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 99. Oh 1 let me live my own, and die so too 1 lls Company"+ ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please. b. PorE— Prologue to Satires. L. 261. Blandishments... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 σελίδες
...Alexander Pope. 65 HIS OWN CHARACTER (Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.) OH let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes... | |
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Oh, let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do): Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please; Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. 
