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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... Heaven sent down to raise The price of prologues and of plays , Be every birthday more a winner , Digest his thirty - thousandth dinner ; Walk to his grave without reproach , And scorn a rascal and a coach ! Alexander Pope . D XLVIII ...
... Heaven sent down to raise The price of prologues and of plays , Be every birthday more a winner , Digest his thirty - thousandth dinner ; Walk to his grave without reproach , And scorn a rascal and a coach ! Alexander Pope . D XLVIII ...
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... heaven , their earthly bodies left behind . LV . Richard Lovelace . WERT thou yet fairer in thy feature , Which lies not in the power of nature ; Or hadst thou in thine eyes more darts Than ever Cupid shot at hearts ; Yet if they were ...
... heaven , their earthly bodies left behind . LV . Richard Lovelace . WERT thou yet fairer in thy feature , Which lies not in the power of nature ; Or hadst thou in thine eyes more darts Than ever Cupid shot at hearts ; Yet if they were ...
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... heaven allows ! John Wilmot , Earl of Rochester . LXIV . THE VICTOR AND THE VANQUISHED . WHILE on those lovely looks I gaze , And see a wretch pursuing , In raptures of a bless'd amaze , His pleasing , happy ruin ; ' Tis not for pity ...
... heaven allows ! John Wilmot , Earl of Rochester . LXIV . THE VICTOR AND THE VANQUISHED . WHILE on those lovely looks I gaze , And see a wretch pursuing , In raptures of a bless'd amaze , His pleasing , happy ruin ; ' Tis not for pity ...
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... Heaven did always choose their way ; And therefore we may boldly say That ' tis the way too thither . How happy here should I , And one dear She , live , and embracing die ! She , who is all the world , and can exclude In deserts ...
... Heaven did always choose their way ; And therefore we may boldly say That ' tis the way too thither . How happy here should I , And one dear She , live , and embracing die ! She , who is all the world , and can exclude In deserts ...
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... heaven sent On care , and pains , and industry : And truly he must be so free To own he thought your airy beaux , With powder'd wigs , and dancing shoes , Were good for nothing ( mend his soul ! ) But prate , and talk , and play the ...
... heaven sent On care , and pains , and industry : And truly he must be so free To own he thought your airy beaux , With powder'd wigs , and dancing shoes , Were good for nothing ( mend his soul ! ) But prate , and talk , and play the ...
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Alexander Pope beauty Ben Jonson bliss blush Bouillabaisse bright Burnham-beeches C. S. Calverley charms cheek Chloe cried Cupid dear delight Derry doth Earl eyes face fair fear flowers give gone grace grave hand happy hath hear heart Heaven heigh-ho John Wolcot kind kiss Lady laugh lips live look Lord Love's lover maid Matthew Prior mind morning muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once pain passion play pleasant pleasure poem poet Poetical poor Praed pray Robert Herrick rose round shepherd sigh sing sleep smile soft song soul sure swain sweet taste tears tell thee There's thine thing Thomas Thomas Carew Thomas Hood Thomas Moore thou thought thro tree true Twas Unknown verse Walter Savage Landor wife William William Cowper William Makepeace Thackeray wine wish young youth