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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... Heigh - ho ! Love is a torment of the mind , A tempest everlasting ; And Jove hath made it of a kind Not well , nor full , nor fasting . Why so ? More we enjoy it , more it dies ; If not enjoy'd , it sighing cries Heigh - ho ! Samuel ...
... Heigh - ho ! Love is a torment of the mind , A tempest everlasting ; And Jove hath made it of a kind Not well , nor full , nor fasting . Why so ? More we enjoy it , more it dies ; If not enjoy'd , it sighing cries Heigh - ho ! Samuel ...
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... heigh - ho ! So pleasant it is to have money . Your Chablis is acid , away with the hock , Give me the pure juice of the purple Médoc ; St. Peray is exquisite ; but , if you please , Some Burgundy just before tasting the cheese . So ...
... heigh - ho ! So pleasant it is to have money . Your Chablis is acid , away with the hock , Give me the pure juice of the purple Médoc ; St. Peray is exquisite ; but , if you please , Some Burgundy just before tasting the cheese . So ...
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... heigh ho ! So useful it is to have money . O dear what a pity they ever should lose it , Since they are the people who know how to use it ; So easy , so stately , such manners , such dinners ; And yet , after all , it is we are the ...
... heigh ho ! So useful it is to have money . O dear what a pity they ever should lose it , Since they are the people who know how to use it ; So easy , so stately , such manners , such dinners ; And yet , after all , it is we are the ...
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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