 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 566 páginas
...rather older. Writing of his own death, Swift says : — " Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day ; St. John himself will...drop a tear ; The rest will give a shrug and cry, ''Tis pity, but we all must die.' " Pope in the " Dunciad " refers to Swift : — " Oh thou ! whatever... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 564 páginas
...Writing of his own death, Swift says : — " Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthuot a day ; St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite...drop a tear ; The rest will give a shrug and cry, ''Tis pity, but we all must die.' " Pope in the " Dunciad " refers to Swift : — " Oh thou ! whatever... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 páginas
...the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope would grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce...shrug, and cry, 'I'm sorry — but we all must die l' * * * ft * Suppose me dead ; and then suppose A club assembled at the Rose ; Where, from discourse... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1901 - 584 páginas
...foreign post day, nay, I will read verses in your presence till you snatch them out of my hands." 5 "St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen and drop a tear." Laughed jocund, and aloud he cried To Matthew, seated on t' oth' side, 'To thee, lean bard, it doth... | |
 | Eduard Engel - 1902 - 516 páginas
...shift the scene to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce...shrug and cry : " I'm sorry — but we all must die !" We may add a few words upon a work by Swift's friend JOHN ARBUTHNOT (1667-1735), the title of which... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 360 páginas
...on his own death, assigns Gay a week in which to grieve: ' Poor Pope would grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day: St. John himself will scarce...shrug and cry, " I'm sorry, but we all must die." * It is a matter of notoriety that Gay was very fat and fond of eating. He is, as we have already said,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 páginas
...represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arhuthnot will not time subdue !) An horrid chasm disclosed...orifice Wide, discontinuous ; at which the winds Eurus a : ' I 'm sorry — but we all must die ! ' . . . One year is past ; a different scene ! No further... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 páginas
...shift the scne, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A wned. Nor good, nor bad, nor fools, nor wise, They would not learn, nor could advis «frop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry : ' I 'm sorry — but wf all must die ! ' . . .... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 496 páginas
...the scene to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope would grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce...drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, " I 'm sorry — but we all must die." When we are lashed they kiss the rod, Resigning to the will... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1902 - 476 páginas
...the scene to represent * How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce...melt In those who never pity felt ! , When we are lashed they kiss the rod, Resigning to the will of God. The fools, my juniors by a year, , Are tortured... | |
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Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, "I'm sorry—... 
