The Cheltenham mail bag; or, Letters from Gloucestershire [in verse] ed. [really written?] by Peter Quince, the younger |
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... sense - such as my friend Of the goosequill fraternity scribbles at times , Of poetry dreaming in common - place rhymes ; Poor H- -N , I mean - my dear lord ! by the bye I'm in want of a SEC . and I've him in my eye ; — If I had but a ...
... sense - such as my friend Of the goosequill fraternity scribbles at times , Of poetry dreaming in common - place rhymes ; Poor H- -N , I mean - my dear lord ! by the bye I'm in want of a SEC . and I've him in my eye ; — If I had but a ...
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... sense - and her shrewdness - at once you dis- cover , From the top to the toe she's her mother all over ! —Apropos , a discovery lately I've hit on , That critics and lawyers have puzzled their wit on ; That has posed all the world ...
... sense - and her shrewdness - at once you dis- cover , From the top to the toe she's her mother all over ! —Apropos , a discovery lately I've hit on , That critics and lawyers have puzzled their wit on ; That has posed all the world ...
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... sense , " which you know I possess , In a bountiful , liberal , and beauteous excess , * See a brief notice in a recent Courier , of " AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND , & c . & c . & c . !! " which has made much noise in the highest ...
... sense , " which you know I possess , In a bountiful , liberal , and beauteous excess , * See a brief notice in a recent Courier , of " AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND , & c . & c . & c . !! " which has made much noise in the highest ...
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... sense of my merits ? -oh were I appointed To present to all EUROPE the LORD's own ANOINT- ED , On so firm , so secure , and so safe a foundation , I'd settle the peaceable peace of each nation , That my zeal and my genius should both be ...
... sense of my merits ? -oh were I appointed To present to all EUROPE the LORD's own ANOINT- ED , On so firm , so secure , and so safe a foundation , I'd settle the peaceable peace of each nation , That my zeal and my genius should both be ...
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... wit - nor yet for wit alone , But common sense and common spirit , And every other earthly merit , I might with philosophic grace Endure your unpropitious face , By neither sentiment nor feeling Illumined with the least revealing 62.
... wit - nor yet for wit alone , But common sense and common spirit , And every other earthly merit , I might with philosophic grace Endure your unpropitious face , By neither sentiment nor feeling Illumined with the least revealing 62.
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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.