 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. sit mind's disease, its ruling passion came ; Each vital humour, which ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, ' Keep your piece nine year*.' ' Nine... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 unwillingears, This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." Nine years!... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; 35 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, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, — ' Keep your piece nine years.'... | |
 | lady Dorothea Knighton - 1838 - 480 pages
...worse ? 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, though in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, Keep your PEACE nine years. *' As... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit ; ! And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, "Keep your piece nine years." Nine... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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 unwilling ears, This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nipe years." •'... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...lie: To laugh, «ere want of goodness and of grace ; 4nd to be grave, exceeds all poner of face. sit and that, perhaps. To swell the riot of th' autumnal feast, Won b ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ear», 'his saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." " Nine... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - United States - 1846 - 530 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...were generally on the republican side, neither to practise or accept of any office under the constitution, which, in that case, they would be bound,... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 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...were generally on the republican side, neither to practise or aecept of any office under the constitution, which, in that case, they would be bound,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...: 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 unwilling ears, This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." " Nine... | |
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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, — 'Keep your piece nine years. 
