 | Max Plessow - 1906 - 556 pages
...bedauert Gay, daß er sie verfaßt habe, ohne den 'Rat des Freundes befolgt zu haben: Why did I not take your advice before my writing fables for the Duke, not to write them; denn seine Hoffnungen auf eine gute Stelle bei Hofe waren nicht in Erfüllung gegangen. Damit sind... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 430 pages
...have been striving to produce something out of ! Why did I not take your advice before writing my ' Fables ' for the duke, not to write them ? Or, rather, to write them for some young nobleman ? It is very hard fate that I must get nothing, write for or against them." Gay concludes by begging Pope to... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1921 - 196 pages
...did I not take your advice before my writing Fables for the Duke, not to write them ! It is my very hard fate I must get nothing, write for them or against them. I find myself in such a strange confusion and depression of spirits that I have not strength enough... | |
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O that I had never known what a court was! Dear Pope, what a barren soil (to me so) have I been striving to produce something out of! Why did I not take your advice before my writing fables for the duke, not to write them? Or rather, to write them for... 
