The Cheltenham mail bag; or, Letters from Gloucestershire [in verse] ed. [really written?] by Peter Quince, the younger |
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... author . I would not willingly be known . If I be pressed , I will as readily reply , as that Egyptian in PLUTARCH , when a curious fellow would needs know what he had in his basket . Quum vides velatam , cur inquiris in rem absconditam ...
... author . I would not willingly be known . If I be pressed , I will as readily reply , as that Egyptian in PLUTARCH , when a curious fellow would needs know what he had in his basket . Quum vides velatam , cur inquiris in rem absconditam ...
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... author of several luminous treatises on the planets ; and an expounder of the solar system ; a prodigious admirer of fish - and claims descent from the noble family of RAY - Wherefore I venerate him . He is also an essayist on finance ...
... author of several luminous treatises on the planets ; and an expounder of the solar system ; a prodigious admirer of fish - and claims descent from the noble family of RAY - Wherefore I venerate him . He is also an essayist on finance ...
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... author - tribe , + An indefatigable scribe- But far more famous , far more known , To all his brethren of the Ton , Great with the great - but condescending , Like his loved Prince - to all men lending His best and warmest services ...
... author - tribe , + An indefatigable scribe- But far more famous , far more known , To all his brethren of the Ton , Great with the great - but condescending , Like his loved Prince - to all men lending His best and warmest services ...
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... Author , my dear and intimate friend , who begs me to say that the collegiate allusions introduced were indispensable , and must therefore be accounted for by the scene of the poem . - Gibs , in the instance of this note , is a bye ...
... Author , my dear and intimate friend , who begs me to say that the collegiate allusions introduced were indispensable , and must therefore be accounted for by the scene of the poem . - Gibs , in the instance of this note , is a bye ...
Page 115
... danced a strathspey thro ' the stars , With curled Endymion ; -Venus ogled Mars , * " Locke and Murray , " the authors of ancient and mo- dern logic read in T. C. D. I 2 The long - tailed comet * trimmed his bushy beard 115.
... danced a strathspey thro ' the stars , With curled Endymion ; -Venus ogled Mars , * " Locke and Murray , " the authors of ancient and mo- dern logic read in T. C. D. I 2 The long - tailed comet * trimmed his bushy beard 115.
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The Cheltenham Mail Bag; Or, Letters from Gloucestershire [In Verse] Ed ... William Henry Halpin No preview available - 2016 |
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ACERBUS SKETCH Adieu April 23 bard beam beauty beauty's blest bloom blushing Boarding House bosom BOTTOM'S DREAM breath bright bright eyes brow C-BB-TT called charm Charon Cheltenham COMMODUS dear Lord delight divine DOLLY SKETCH dream dull e'er EARL OF P-F-T earth earthly entre nous exquisite eyes fair Falstaff fancy Fancy's fashion feeling flame flowers forget FR-NKS friendship genius gentle girl glow gold gout grace heart Heaven humour Jove kind King LALLA ROOKH LETTER lisping looks lover mind mirth MISS DOLLY MORPHEUS Muse nature ne'er never nought o'er OLD BOND STREET once peruke PETER QUINCE play Poems rapture rhyme round royalty's scene scorn SHAKESPERE shed shew shine sighs slumber smile song soul sparkling spirit spleen springs strain swear sweet tears thee There's thine thou thought thro true truth Twas vulgar Whilst young
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Page 57 - High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
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Page 108 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
Page 112 - Sunt geminae Somni portae; quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, 895 sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes.
Page 30 - twere vain to tell, But gaze on that of the Gazelle, It will assist thy fancy well, As large, as languishingly dark, But Soul beam'd forth in every spark...
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Page 10 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.