 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...a jealous fit, I cry " Pox take him and his wit!" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares...irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and show'd its use.7 St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for prose... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pages
...jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares...irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and show'd its use.7 St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for prose... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...wit /" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my fritnd, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and show'd its use.7 St. John, as well as Pulteney, knowa That I had some repute for prose... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous Said he, " with one thrice-acceptable stroke To end...Truth fail to keep her word, Justice Divine not ha first, and show'd its use. St, John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for prose ;... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six. I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humurous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares...pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd at first, and show'd its use. St. John , as well as Pultcney , knows That I had some repute for prose;... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...Pox take him and his wit ! " I grieve to he outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arhuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refined at first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 pages
...than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit." I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own hum'rous biting way. Arbuthnot...irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for prose,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...his wit f I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more myfritnd, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and show'd its use.' St John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for prose... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 pages
...jealous fit, I cry, ' Pox take him and his wit!' I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous, biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refined at first, and showed its use. St John, as well as Pultney, knows That I had some repute for... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthuot inlroduce, Refin'd at first, nnd show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some... | |
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In Pope I cannot read a line But, with a sigh, I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit. 
