Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English AuthorsFrederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan |
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... hand several have been omitted or given with omissions , because their tone is hardly suited to the more refined taste of the present day . Isaac D'Israeli , in his Miscellanies , has some in- teresting remarks on vers d'occasion ...
... hand several have been omitted or given with omissions , because their tone is hardly suited to the more refined taste of the present day . Isaac D'Israeli , in his Miscellanies , has some in- teresting remarks on vers d'occasion ...
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... hand of the Graces . " .... A reviewer in The Times newspaper has made the following noteworthy remarks on the subject of Social Verse , more especially in its exacter and narrower sense , as cultivated by Praed : " It is the poetry of ...
... hand of the Graces . " .... A reviewer in The Times newspaper has made the following noteworthy remarks on the subject of Social Verse , more especially in its exacter and narrower sense , as cultivated by Praed : " It is the poetry of ...
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... hand , Where shepherds laugh , and love upon the land : Ah then , & c . Robert Greene . IX . PHILLIDA AND CORYDON . IN the merry month of May , In a morn by break of day , With a troop of damsels playing Forth I rode , forsooth , a ...
... hand , Where shepherds laugh , and love upon the land : Ah then , & c . Robert Greene . IX . PHILLIDA AND CORYDON . IN the merry month of May , In a morn by break of day , With a troop of damsels playing Forth I rode , forsooth , a ...
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... hands had stray'd to touch , Then justly might you leave me . I ask'd you leave , you bade me love , Is't now a time to chide me ? No , no , no , I'll love you still , What fortune e'er betide me . The sun , whose beams most glorious ...
... hands had stray'd to touch , Then justly might you leave me . I ask'd you leave , you bade me love , Is't now a time to chide me ? No , no , no , I'll love you still , What fortune e'er betide me . The sun , whose beams most glorious ...
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... hands , Her sweets no longer with her dwell ; But scent and beauty both are gone , And leaves fall from her , one by one . Such fate , ere long , will thee betide , When thou has handled been awhile , Like sere flowers to be thrown ...
... hands , Her sweets no longer with her dwell ; But scent and beauty both are gone , And leaves fall from her , one by one . Such fate , ere long , will thee betide , When thou has handled been awhile , Like sere flowers to be thrown ...
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