 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And tc 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... | |
 | Thomas Costley - English literature - 1897 - 378 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 peace nine years." MOUNSEY.... | |
 | Thomas Costley - English literature - 1897 - 404 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 peace nine years." MOUNSEY.... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 596 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Catholics - 1901 - 120 pages
...lie. M 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, 40 This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." "... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And tc 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... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - English poetry - 1902 - 432 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 years.' 40 '... | |
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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. 
