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 Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems - Sayfa 335Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott tarafından - 1814Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 578 sayfa
...subject." "When we recollect Swift's anticipation of the effect 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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 sayfa
...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... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1860 - 360 sayfa
...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...drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, ' I 'm sorry — but we all must die! ' Indifference, clad in Wisdom's guise, All fortitude of mind... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 626 sayfa
...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...shrug, and cry : " I'm sorry — but we all must die !" Why do we grieve that friends should die I No loss more easy to supply. One year is past ; a different... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 698 sayfa
...worthy friend, no poor relation? So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood!.... Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day.... My female friends, whose tender hearts Have belter learned to act their parts, Receive the news in... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 sayfa
...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. John3 himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and... | |
| 1871 - 632 sayfa
..." His other friend, the Dean of St. Patrick's, in his poem On the Death of Dr. Swift, writes — " Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Ar'buthnot a day " ; yet the same piece contains the couplet — " Arbuth'not U no more my friend, Who dares to irony... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 sayfa
...friend, no poor relation ? So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood ! " . . . Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. . . . My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learu'd to act their parts, Receive the news... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 sayfa
...friend, no poor relation ? So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood ! " . . . Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. . . . My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learn 'd to act their parts, Receive the news... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 sayfa
...Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those T love ray death lament. 'd profuse, their piercing genius plann'd And swell'd ihe pomp of peace their faithful R " I 'm sorry — but we all must die !" Inditterence, clad in wisdom's guise, All fortitude of mind... | |
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