Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.’]
Ah! voila de la pervenche. Confessions, Part I. Book VI.
That wandering voice. Wordsworth. To the Cuckoo.
VI. ON SWIFT, YOUNG, GRAY, COLLINS, Etc.
[104]. Parnell. Thomas Parnell (1679–1717). His poems were published by Pope, and his life was written by Goldsmith.
Arbuthnot. John Arbuthnot (1667–1735), physician and writer. He had the chief share in the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, which was published amongst Pope’s works in 1741. His History of John Bull was published in 1712.
[105]. Trim ... the old jack-boots. Tristram Shandy, III. 20.