 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...: 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 unwilling ears, This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." " Nine... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 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." 40 "Nine... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 488 pages
...the disagreeable manner in which he was pestered by authors to read their MSS., writes : — 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 nine years." Nine... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; .vj,! to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit s one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewer ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years.' . Nine... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1854 - 384 pages
...Romish Church is an outrage on nature, and language cannot express its evils." CHAPTER XXIII. " I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish and an aching head." — POPE. To Lady Edith Tremorne all the withered joys and hopes of her past life had been like autumn... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 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 nine years." " Xine... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. 1 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 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." 40... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...poetasters. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I, Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish and an aching head. But though "the bard more fat than bard beseems" was restive under her ladyship's " poetical operations,"... | |
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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. 
