 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 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.' 40... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r 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 years4." 40 "Nine... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...lie : To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to lie grave exceeds all power of face. I sit salt is" There the eye 0' the chrysolite, And a sky Of dia ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, Thissavingeounsel, "Keep your piece nine yean." "Nine years!"... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...lye : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 pages
...lye : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r 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... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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 «. , Why... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 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, Thissavingcounsel, "Keepyourpiecenineyears." " N ine years... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace; \tid to be erave, exceeds all power of face I sit th divining eyes, They ; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears. This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine yeirs.' " Nine... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r 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. 
