 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 426 páginas
...to a hope that, when his friends should hear of his death : 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.11 Such glimpses within reveal to us much more than an egotist labouring to condense into five... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 342 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 ! " This heartiness of feeling for his friends 5s not peculiar to Swift; it was, indeed, characteristic... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 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 ! " This heartiness of feeling for his friends is not peculiar... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 322 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 ! " This heartiness of feeling for his friends is not peculiar... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1921 - 626 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 l' ***** Suppose me dead ; and then suppose A club assembled at... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 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,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 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...a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, "I'm sorry—but we all must die!" Indifference, clad in Wisdom's guise, All fortitude of mind supplies:... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 224 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...a Shrug, and Cry, " I'm sorry but we all must die ! " • • • • My female Friends, whose tender Hearts Have better learn'd to act their Parts,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1928 - 280 páginas
...will cause a brief regret to his most intimate friends : ' Poor Pope will grieve a month ; and Gay A week ; and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will...give a shrug, and cry, "I'm sorry— but we all must He."' Why griere, indeed, at the death of friends, since no loss is more easy to supply, and in a year... | |
 | Sidney Dark - 1928 - 264 páginas
...poem on the death of Dr. Swift, in which he prophesied : — 'Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day, St. John himself will scarce...and drop a tear, The rest will give a shrug and cry, '"Tis pity, but we all must die!" ' Like many another writer of genius Swift lost his intellectsome... | |
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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—... 
