 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 σελίδες
...from ink and paper, scrawls "With desperate charcoal round hie darkened walls ? All fly to Twit'imm, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. . . . Who shames a scribbler? Break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 380 σελίδες
...pens a stanza when he should engross ? Is there, who lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam,...strain Apply to ME to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause. Poor Cornus sees his... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 σελίδες
...a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam,...strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause. Poor Cornus sees his... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 σελίδες
...a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam,...strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause. Poor Cornus sees his... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 σελίδες
...a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to Twit'nam,...strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause. Poor Cornus sees his... | |
 | 1908 - 1036 σελίδες
...rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross; All fly to Twitnam, and in humble strain, Apply to me to keep them mad or vain." It may be inferred that on the day during which the copy found below was prepared the last straw had... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 σελίδες
...engross? Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls, With desp'rate charcoal round his darkened walls? All fly to Twit-nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. The intimate air he adopts in addressing his close friend Arbuthnot preserves a colloquial strain throughout... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 σελίδες
...there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls? 20 All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damned works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his... | |
 | Clifford Siskin - 1999 - 298 σελίδες
...himself as the unwilling target of aspiring hordes of writers who hope they can ride his fame to market: "All fly to Twit'na.m, and in humble strain /Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain" (21-22). In the later version, however, die gatherer is an "old Man" who invites the leeches onto his... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 σελίδες
...engross ? Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darkened walls ? All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damned works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his... | |
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A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep... 
