 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : Y Y Y I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head ; ! And drop at last, but in... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and 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 anguish and an aching head ; And drop at last, but in... | |
 | Children's literature - 1846 - 872 pages
...feeling even a bishop or a jndge must have had just then, much more the little readers of these lines. " To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of face." Now shall I give you to understand all and every thing which I got thinking about, as I came away from... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...me dead. Seiz'd and tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : Y d b n i/n d o I sit with sad civility ; I read Wilh honest anguish, and an achjng head ; And drop at last, but in... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1845 - 104 pages
...Transcends his " power of face," * and he must fly Till the first burst of glory has swept by. * " To laugh were want of goodness and of grace; And to be grave exceeds all power of face." POPE, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Launch'd on the Rhine, he well may bear the light Toned down by distance... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...magnanimity, which is the character of Prince Arthur, shines throughout the whole poem. — Dryden. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of face. — Pope. Thy form benign, 0 goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart; Thy philosophic train be •... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...me dead. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and 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 anguish, and an aching head ; And drop at last, but in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...me dead. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I git with sad civility! I read With honest anguish, and an aching head ; And drop at last, but in... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 268 pages
...magnanimity, which is the character of Prince Arthur, shines throughout the whole poem. — Drydtn. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of dee. — Pope. Thy form benign, 0 goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart ; Thy philosophic train... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...me dead. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power efface. I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish, and an aching head ; And drop at last,... | |
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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, 'Keep your piece nine years. 
