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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... song , the parody , the epigram , and even the riddle . Lest any reader who may not be familiar with this description of poetry should be misled by the adoption of the French title , which the absence of any precise English equivalent ...
... song , the parody , the epigram , and even the riddle . Lest any reader who may not be familiar with this description of poetry should be misled by the adoption of the French title , which the absence of any precise English equivalent ...
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... song or crystallise into mere epigram , though in these cases , as already observed , the border line is often extremely difficult to define . Riddles , parodies , and punning couplets are for the most part omitted ; not , as some ...
... song or crystallise into mere epigram , though in these cases , as already observed , the border line is often extremely difficult to define . Riddles , parodies , and punning couplets are for the most part omitted ; not , as some ...
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... Song , com- mencing : " Come live with me , and be my love , " appears to be too poetical , while the less beautiful , but almost as charming Reply has been admitted , because it is depressed to the requisite level by the tone of ...
... Song , com- mencing : " Come live with me , and be my love , " appears to be too poetical , while the less beautiful , but almost as charming Reply has been admitted , because it is depressed to the requisite level by the tone of ...
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... song . ' Now and again , it may be , he appears to quit it , but 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 ...
... song . ' Now and again , it may be , he appears to quit it , but 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 ...
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... song , Like Phoebus thus , acquiring unsought praise , He catch'd at love , and fill'd his arms with bays . Edmund Waller LXXIII . PHILLIS , for shame ! let us improve , A thousand different ways , These few short moments snatch'd by ...
... song , Like Phoebus thus , acquiring unsought praise , He catch'd at love , and fill'd his arms with bays . Edmund Waller LXXIII . PHILLIS , for shame ! let us improve , A thousand different ways , These few short moments snatch'd by ...
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