 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 322 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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English wit and humor - 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 sua, at once an excuse for the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 406 pages
...dignity, which poeti 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... | |
 | Gregor von Rezzori - Fiction - 1988 - 684 pages
...lingua significano i confini del mio mondo. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Diari) Why did I write? What sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink? My parents' or my own? (Alexander Pope) II timore è un deliquio femminile in cui la libertà perde conoscenza; in termini... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...AWP; ChTr; InPS; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OBSV; OxBoLi; PoE; PoEL-3; SCV 13 Why did I write? what sin P; InPK; NAEL-2; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-2; OBD; OBEY; OBNC; Po As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. 14 The Muse but... | |
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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... 
