Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de Société and Vers D'occasion in the English Language by Deceased Authors |
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... DEAR MR . DEAN : You have given me great pleasure in allowing me to dedicate this little work to yourself . I hesitated to ask the favor , because the book might seem to be of too trifling a character , to be connected with so venerable ...
... DEAR MR . DEAN : You have given me great pleasure in allowing me to dedicate this little work to yourself . I hesitated to ask the favor , because the book might seem to be of too trifling a character , to be connected with so venerable ...
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... Dear , when you find change in me , Though from me you be estranged , Let my change to ruin be . " What if you new beauties see ? Will not they stir new affection ? " , I will think they pictures be ( Image - like of saint perfection ) ...
... Dear , when you find change in me , Though from me you be estranged , Let my change to ruin be . " What if you new beauties see ? Will not they stir new affection ? " , I will think they pictures be ( Image - like of saint perfection ) ...
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... 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 . J His heart in me keeps him and me in one LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . 3.
... 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 . J His heart in me keeps him and me in one LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . 3.
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... dear , Yea , a thousand liked well near ; And in love with all together , Feared the enjoying either : ' Cause to be of one possess'd , Barr'd the hope of all the rest . George Wither . XX . CHARIS . Her Triumph . SEE the chariot at ...
... dear , Yea , a thousand liked well near ; And in love with all together , Feared the enjoying either : ' Cause to be of one possess'd , Barr'd the hope of all the rest . George Wither . XX . CHARIS . Her Triumph . SEE the chariot at ...
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... Dear , so much , Loved I not Honour more ! Richard Lovelace . XLVI . A BALLAD UPON A Wedding . I TELL thee , Dick , where I have been , Where I the rarest things have seen ; O things without compare ! Such sights again cannot be found ...
... Dear , so much , Loved I not Honour more ! Richard Lovelace . XLVI . A BALLAD UPON A Wedding . I TELL thee , Dick , where I have been , Where I the rarest things have seen ; O things without compare ! Such sights again cannot be found ...
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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 king 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