 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 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.' <o 1... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 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.' 4*0... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 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." 4. " Nino... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 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... | |
 | Benjamin Lambert - Humor in literature - 1861 - 62 pages
...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, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, ' Keep your piece nine years.' ' Nine... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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." Bless... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 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." • Pope's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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.** "The... | |
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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. 
