The Cheltenham mail bag; or, Letters from Gloucestershire [in verse] ed. [really written?] by Peter Quince, the younger |
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... genius like mine you know baffles concealing ; ) And now with affection heart - feeling and fervent , Whilst my pen has a nib , or my heart has a nerve in't , I'm your faithful , obliged and obsequious servant JM D , OF C - KS . P. S. ...
... genius like mine you know baffles concealing ; ) And now with affection heart - feeling and fervent , Whilst my pen has a nib , or my heart has a nerve in't , I'm your faithful , obliged and obsequious servant JM D , OF C - KS . P. S. ...
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... genius we all have admired so long " In its garment of prose , breaks at last into song , " And we all of us thought , though his prose was ❝ divine , " That his forte was poetic - and destined to shine " In the regions of fiction , he ...
... genius we all have admired so long " In its garment of prose , breaks at last into song , " And we all of us thought , though his prose was ❝ divine , " That his forte was poetic - and destined to shine " In the regions of fiction , he ...
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... genius - I blush at this moment to mention- The lad could compile , and prepare for the press Such a quarto of wonderful wonderfulness ! - Would he be but satirical ! -trust me , my Lord , On the hone of my wit like a double - edged ...
... genius - I blush at this moment to mention- The lad could compile , and prepare for the press Such a quarto of wonderful wonderfulness ! - Would he be but satirical ! -trust me , my Lord , On the hone of my wit like a double - edged ...
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... genius elate , He'll reflect all my talents * —and give to the world The true standard of history proudly unfurled ! - I'd a gossip last week with the Chevalier W — X — LL , About " MEMOIRS " and stories , he means to prove facts all ...
... genius elate , He'll reflect all my talents * —and give to the world The true standard of history proudly unfurled ! - I'd a gossip last week with the Chevalier W — X — LL , About " MEMOIRS " and stories , he means to prove facts all ...
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... Genius like mine Should to learning , belles - lettres , -and such things incline ; And hence you may guess the chief things I delight in , Are writing and reading — and reading and writing— " Je redemandois LAURE a l'echo du vallon ...
... Genius like mine Should to learning , belles - lettres , -and such things incline ; And hence you may guess the chief things I delight in , Are writing and reading — and reading and writing— " Je redemandois LAURE a l'echo du vallon ...
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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...
Page 100 - This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions : these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion : But the gilt is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it.
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...
Page 55 - Monarchies,'' it is laid down that " a Free monarchy is one in which the monarch is perfectly free to do as he pleases.
Page 52 - I have, not without a little envy, observed of late the style of some great ministers very much to exceed that of any other productions.
Page 94 - And as plump, aye as any Princess of the blood, Carved in stone, but a good imitation of wood ; — With her vest all in plaits — like some ancient costume Either Roman or Grecian, I fairly presume ; Tho...
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.