Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de Société and Vers D'occasion in the English Language by Deceased AuthorsFrederick Locker-Lampson |
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... mixed , and where two authors have written on the same sub- ject , though at different epochs , it has been thought interesting to bring them side by side . For this reason the epitaphs , epigrams , political squibs , and PREFACE . XV.
... mixed , and where two authors have written on the same sub- ject , though at different epochs , it has been thought interesting to bring them side by side . For this reason the epitaphs , epigrams , political squibs , and PREFACE . XV.
Page xvi
... reason the epitaphs , epigrams , political squibs , and convival pieces , etc. , have been kept together , and occur at intervals throughout the volume . The collection has been restricted to the writ- ings of deceased authors , and as ...
... reason the epitaphs , epigrams , political squibs , and convival pieces , etc. , have been kept together , and occur at intervals throughout the volume . The collection has been restricted to the writ- ings of deceased authors , and as ...
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... reason I should be the same ? He that can love unloved again , Hath better store of love than brain : God send me love my debts to pay , While unthrifts fool their love away ! Nothing could have my love o'erthrown , If thou hadst still ...
... reason I should be the same ? He that can love unloved again , Hath better store of love than brain : God send me love my debts to pay , While unthrifts fool their love away ! Nothing could have my love o'erthrown , If thou hadst still ...
Page 32
... reason was , Before the parson could say grace , The company were seated . Now hats fly off , and youth carouse ; Healths first go round , and then the house , The bride's come thick and thick ; And when ' twas named another's health ...
... reason was , Before the parson could say grace , The company were seated . Now hats fly off , and youth carouse ; Healths first go round , and then the house , The bride's come thick and thick ; And when ' twas named another's health ...
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... reason rotten . Thy belt of straw , and ivy buds , Thy coral clasps , and amber studs , All these in me no means can move , To come to thee , and be thy love . But could youth last , and love still breed , Had joys no date , and age no ...
... reason rotten . Thy belt of straw , and ivy buds , Thy coral clasps , and amber studs , All these in me no means can move , To come to thee , and be thy love . But could youth last , and love still breed , Had joys no date , and age no ...
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Alexander Pope Araminta beauty bliss blush bright Burnham-beeches charms cheek Chloe Cupid dance dear delight Derry doth e'er Earl eyes fair fate fear flowers gaze give gone grace hand happy haste hath hear heart Heaven heigh-ho Henry Luttrell hour John Wolcot Jonathan Swift kind kiss kiss'd Lady Landor lass laugh lips live look Lord Love's lover maid Matthew Prior mind morning muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once pain play pleasant pleasure poet poor Praed pray Robert Herrick rose round shepherd sigh sing Sir John Suckling sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sure swain sweet taste tears tell there's thine thing Thomas Carew Thomas Hood Thomas Moore thou thought thro to-morrow true Twas Unknown vers de société verse vex'd Walter wife William William Cowper wish young youth