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Winthrop Mackworth Praed. measure of which is not to be relied upon as a fair criterion of its intrinsic excellence . Still posterity is apt to be careless and indiscriminating in its neglectfulness . True wit , true humour , true grace ...
Winthrop Mackworth Praed. measure of which is not to be relied upon as a fair criterion of its intrinsic excellence . Still posterity is apt to be careless and indiscriminating in its neglectfulness . True wit , true humour , true grace ...
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... fair , perhaps , to say all , for some half - dozen pieces at most survive , and have done duty with monotonous regularity , as representative specimens of his verse , in every volume of poetical selections of the Vers de Société order ...
... fair , perhaps , to say all , for some half - dozen pieces at most survive , and have done duty with monotonous regularity , as representative specimens of his verse , in every volume of poetical selections of the Vers de Société order ...
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... fair chance of life given to it . In the first instance , Praed was himself responsible for the smothering of his offspring . He seems to have been very indifferent about the ultimate fate of his productions , or about the permanence of ...
... fair chance of life given to it . In the first instance , Praed was himself responsible for the smothering of his offspring . He seems to have been very indifferent about the ultimate fate of his productions , or about the permanence of ...
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... contributions to the inevitable album that every fair one cherished in those days . Praed's style , as has been said , is not versatile : he never hazarded possible harshness by metrical experiments , and INTRODUCTORY NOTICE . 29.
... contributions to the inevitable album that every fair one cherished in those days . Praed's style , as has been said , is not versatile : he never hazarded possible harshness by metrical experiments , and INTRODUCTORY NOTICE . 29.
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... fair ; But the rose of her lip had faded away , And her cheek was as white and as cold as clay , And torn was her raven hair . " Ah , ha ! " said the Fisher , in merry guise , " Her gallant was hooked before ; And the Abbot heaved some ...
... fair ; But the rose of her lip had faded away , And her cheek was as white and as cold as clay , And torn was her raven hair . " Ah , ha ! " said the Fisher , in merry guise , " Her gallant was hooked before ; And the Abbot heaved some ...
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April Fools Araminta beam beauty Beauty's Bishop Monk bliss blue bowers Brazen Head breath bright brow charming cheek cold Count Otto courser dance dark dear Derwent Coleridge dream earth Eton eyes fair fancy Fanny Fare thee father fear flowers fool Francis Curzon frown Fustian gaze glance gout half Hall hath head hear heart heaven hope hour Lady laugh light lips lonely look Lord lover Lurley lute maid maiden Marriage mirth Muse ne'er never night nymph o'er pain passion poems poets Praed Praed's pray Quince Rhine rhyme rose round sigh sing Sir Isumbras sleep smile song sorrow soul strange swear sweet talk Tam O'Shanter tears tell thine things thought throng to-day to-night tone tree twas Valentine's Day voice wandered weep Whate'er whispered wine Winthrop Mackworth Praed young youth
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Page 206 - Little. Through sunny May, through sultry June, I loved her with a love eternal ; I spoke her praises to the moon, I wrote them for the Sunday Journal.
Page 201 - At his approach complaint grew mild ; And when his hand unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Caesar, or of Venus; From him I learnt the rule of three, I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal the staff he put such trust in, And make the puppy dance a jig, When he began to quote Augustine.
Page 164 - I think that friars and their hoods, Their doctrines and their maggots, Have lighted up too many feuds, And far too many faggots ; I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather more to Heaven.
Page 38 - The cock doth crow ; It is time for the Fisher to rise and go. Fair luck to the Abbot, fair luck to the shrine ; He hath gnawed in twain my choicest line ; Let him swim to the north, let him swim to the south, The Abbot will carry my hook in his mouth.
Page 27 - Persian stories ; Soft songs to Julia's cockatoo, Fierce odes to Famine and to Slaughter, And autographs of Prince Leboo, And recipes for elder-water.
Page 195 - Miss Lane, at her Temple of Fashion, Taught us both how to sing and to speak, And we loved one another with passion, Before we had been there a week : You gave me a ring for a token ; I wear it wherever I go ; I gave you a chain — is it broken ? My own Araminta, say
Page 196 - When I heard I was going abroad, love, I thought I was going to die; We walked arm in arm to the road, love, We looked arm in arm to the sky; And I said ' When a foreign postilion Has hurried me off to the Po, Forget not Medora Trevilian : My own Araminta, say
Page 220 - Where are my friends? I am alone; No playmate shares my beaker: Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, And some — before the Speaker; And some compose a tragedy, And some compose a rondo; And some draw sword for Liberty, And some draw pleas for John Doe. Tom Mill was used to blacken eyes Without the fear of sessions; Charles...
Page 197 - If he don't stand six feet in his shoes, If his lips are not redder than roses, If his hands are not whiter than snow, If he has not the model of noses, My own Araminta, say
Page 230 - ... is laid down with fresh gravel, Papa is laid up with the gout ; And Jane has gone on with her easels, And Anne has gone off with Sir Paul ; And Fanny is sick with the measles, — And I'll tell you the rest at the Ball.