Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said;
Tie up the knocker! say I 'm sick, I 'm dead.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 1
Tie up the knocker! say I 'm sick, I 'm dead.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 1
Related:
- Fired that the house rejects him, "'Sdeath! I 'll print it,
And shame the fools." -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
I lisp'd in numbers,
for the numbers came. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires,... - On wings of winds came flying all abroad."
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires,... - E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires,... - No creature smarts so little as a fool.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires,... - Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot... - Destroy his fib or sophistry--in vain!
The creature 's at his dirty work again.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot... - That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long,
But stoop'd to truth,
and moraliz'd his song. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)...
From the same category:
- Anarchy begins at home,
but it doesn't have to end... - Out of intense complexities,
intense simplicities emerge... - Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and
immorality... - There is not a minute to lose and not a franc...
Jean-Marie Descarpentries,
newly appointed chairman of Groupe Bull... - Something is VERY
wrong here...
