 I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face.  Literary and Historical Memorials of London - Page 71by John Heneage Jesse - 1847Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...not lie. To laugh Were want of goodness and of grace, 55 And to be grave exceeds«ll pow'rof face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish,...aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, 39 This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he, who, high in Drury Lane,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...not lie. 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,...aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, 39 This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." Nine years ! cries he who, high in Drury-Lane,... | |
 | James Burgh - Elocution - 1804 - 308 pages
...po-w'r of face. I sit with sad civility. I read (1) With serious anguish, and an aching head ; Then drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel. " Keep your piece nine years," (2) Nine years!" cries he, who high in Drury- o(f with Surprife. Lull'd by io/5? zephyrs through the... | |
 | James Burgh - 1804 - 312 pages
...pow'r of face. I sit with si2<^ civility. I read (1) With serious anguish, and an aching head; Then drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel. " Keep your piece nine Advifinyears," (9) ' " Nine years. '" cries he, who high in Drury- off W;A Lane, LulTd by soft zephyrs... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...will not lie. To langh 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...in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, " Keep your peace nine years." ' " Nine years !" cries he, who, high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs throngh... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to he grave exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish,...in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, " Keep your peace nine years." " Nine years!" cries \-e, who, high in DruryLune, Lull'd by soft zephyrs tbrough... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, 3i And to be grave exceeds all pow'rof face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish,...aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, 39 This saving counsel, ' Keep your piece nine years.' Nine years ! cries he, who, high in Drury Lane,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...not lie : To langh, 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,...last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, ' Kec p your piece nine years.* ' Nine years !' crirs he, who, high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...will not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of .face. With honest anguish and an aching head, And drop at...in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, ' Keep your peace cine years.' ' Nine years !' cries be, who, high in Drury Lane, Iiidl'd by soft zephyri through... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...will not lie. To langh 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...counsel, 'Keep your piece nine years.* * Nine years !* cries he, who, high in Drury-lane. Luil'd by soft aephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he... | |
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