...Not a bow-shot from the college : Half the globe from sense and knowledge. ALEXANDER POPE. [When Pope can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six. SWIFT on his own Death.} From THE ESSAY ON MAN. Epistle I. Opening Lines. Awake my St. John ! leave...

...On the Death of Dr. Swift. 1 1 r 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 ! " I grieve to be outdone by Gay...

...sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, Hut with л sigh 1 wish it mine: — When ho any waters ; and had bade Thy flood to chroniclu the ag It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!" I grieve to he outdone by Gny In...

...when you sink, I seem the higher. 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 witj^ I grieve to be outdone by Gay...

...retain all their freshness.* * "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." (Swift.) The poem is a mistake, for the subject was beyond the grasp of the poet ; but it is a splendid...

...praising him — that was all. ' 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 !" ' Swift would say this to make...

...his grammar. — JONATHAN SWIFT. 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. — Ibid. He [Dryden] died, nevertheless, in a good old age, possessed of the kingdom of Wit, and was...

...his grammar. — JONATHAN SWIFT. 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. — Ibid. He [Dryden] died, nevertheless, in a good old age, possessed of the kingdom of Wit, and was...

...Twickenham," Poe quoted Swift's stanza: " 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." Much good literary work was done by Poe and the other Knickerbocker writers, that is now entombed in...

...master of condensation, write : — In Pope I cannot read a line But with a sigh I wish it mine ; While he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six. Of the poets whose writings are less copious, Gray is specially remarkable for his epigrammatic style,...