 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - English literature - 1892 - 220 pages
...attacks Addison, a few lines earlier he had thus celebrated his friends. " 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 - 1899 - 534 pages
...I 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... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 880 pages
...reading was directed by hie own fancy. His early passion was to be a poet. " 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 DO calling... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 438 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 tame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 552 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 272 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... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin ( u ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 1 lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came: I left no calling... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1919 - 336 pages
...satire? What evil genius projected him into this hateful air of conflict? — Why did I write? What sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents' or my own? To understand the Epistle we must read it as Pope's apologia pro vita SIM, at once an excuse for the... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1919 - 342 pages
...satire? What evil genius projected him into this hateful air of conflict? — Why did I write? What sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents' or my own? To understand the Epistle we must read it as Pope's apologia pro vita sua, at once an excuse for the... | |
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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... 
