 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame. I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came : I left no calling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink ? my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...Plutarch, that writes his life, Tells us that Cato dearly loved his wife. POPE. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink? my parents' or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE. Exact Racine... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin Y P ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to Fame, 1 liip'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama (Comedy) - 1876 - 474 pages
...dignity, which poets and painters then led. Thus he says to Arbuthnot : " Why did I write ? What sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents' or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...Plutarch, that writes his life, Tells us that Cato dearly loved his wife. POPE. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink? my parents' or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. POPE. Exact Racine... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...to say that he could not remember the time when he began to make verses : Why did I write? What sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents' or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...Character of Bufo, 1. 227-244. QUOTATIONS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INTEREST. " Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - English literature - 1892 - 220 pages
...friends. ' Johnson's " Works," vii. 451. III.— A POET'S DECORATIONS. 109 *' Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came ; I left no calling... | |
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Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father... 
