Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. The Cornhill Magazine - Page 590edited by - 1873Full view - About this book
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...thought it, a condefcenfion in an boneft Man to accept the friendlhip of any one, how high foever, whofe I was not born for Courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts, believe, and fay my pf ay'rs ; Can fleep without a Poem in my head, Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. 270 Why... | |
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