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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... never surges into passion , and where humour never overflows into boisterous merriment . The Editor is not aware that a Collection of this peculiar species of exquisitely rounded and polished verse , which , for want of a better title ...
... never surges into passion , and where humour never overflows into boisterous merriment . The Editor is not aware that a Collection of this peculiar species of exquisitely rounded and polished verse , which , for want of a better title ...
Page xix
... never in reality , and even when he seems to do so , like Landor's shell remote from the sea , he still ' remembers its august abodes . ' " Suckling and Herrick , Swift and Prior , Cowper , Landor , and Thomas Moore , and Praed , and ...
... never in reality , and even when he seems to do so , like Landor's shell remote from the sea , he still ' remembers its august abodes . ' " Suckling and Herrick , Swift and Prior , Cowper , Landor , and Thomas Moore , and Praed , and ...
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... just exchange one to the other given : I hold his dear , and mine he cannot miss , There never was a better bargain driven : My true love hath my heart , and I have his . His heart in me keeps him and me in one Lyra Elegantiarum . 3.
... just exchange one to the other given : I hold his dear , and mine he cannot miss , There never was a better bargain driven : My true love hath my heart , and I have his . His heart in me keeps him and me in one Lyra Elegantiarum . 3.
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... never man was true : He says , none was false to you . He said , he had loved her long : She says , Love should have no wrong . Corydon would kiss her then , She says , maids must kiss no men , Till they do for good and all . Then she ...
... never man was true : He says , none was false to you . He said , he had loved her long : She says , Love should have no wrong . Corydon would kiss her then , She says , maids must kiss no men , Till they do for good and all . Then she ...
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... never known you . What ? I that loved , and you that liked- Shall we begin to wrangle ? — No , no , no , my heart is fast , And cannot disentangle ! If I admire or praise too much , That fault you may forgive me ; Or if my hands had ...
... never known you . What ? I that loved , and you that liked- Shall we begin to wrangle ? — No , no , no , my heart is fast , And cannot disentangle ! If I admire or praise too much , That fault you may forgive me ; Or if my hands had ...
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