The Cheltenham mail bag; or, Letters from Gloucestershire [in verse] ed. [really written?] by Peter Quince, the younger |
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William Henry Halpin. PREFACE . vii which is hid - if the contents please thee , and be for thy use , suppose the man in the moon , or whom thou wilt , to be the author . I would not willingly be known . If I be pressed , I will as ...
William Henry Halpin. PREFACE . vii which is hid - if the contents please thee , and be for thy use , suppose the man in the moon , or whom thou wilt , to be the author . I would not willingly be known . If I be pressed , I will as ...
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... dull dome of Downing Street , From C -h and state affairs , To Nature's smiles and fragrant airs ; And true to friendship and to thee , I sit me down contentedly Even by the Chelt's * retiring banks , Thro ' 9 LETTER II. ...
... dull dome of Downing Street , From C -h and state affairs , To Nature's smiles and fragrant airs ; And true to friendship and to thee , I sit me down contentedly Even by the Chelt's * retiring banks , Thro ' 9 LETTER II. ...
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... nook ! Where blest with thee , with bowl and book No fiddler's grinding could disturb us , But all be peace , -so prays ACERBUS . LETTER III . FROM MISS DOLLY SKETCH TO MISS BIDDY C 2 19 That, in his own peculiar air, ...
... nook ! Where blest with thee , with bowl and book No fiddler's grinding could disturb us , But all be peace , -so prays ACERBUS . LETTER III . FROM MISS DOLLY SKETCH TO MISS BIDDY C 2 19 That, in his own peculiar air, ...
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... thee in thy life's decline Unhonored with a niche in song , Like a prim Evergreen to shine The parterre's lovelier sweets among ! M - N , I've long been in your debt , Say , are you unrequited yet ? - -Hence from my sight ! -for spruce ...
... thee in thy life's decline Unhonored with a niche in song , Like a prim Evergreen to shine The parterre's lovelier sweets among ! M - N , I've long been in your debt , Say , are you unrequited yet ? - -Hence from my sight ! -for spruce ...
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... thee , And upon Fancy's richest shrine , Like thine own spirit see it shine , " Exempt from every weak decay " That withers vulgar souls away ! " * -I own your charms , nor am I blind To all the tenderness of mind , The feelings ...
... thee , And upon Fancy's richest shrine , Like thine own spirit see it shine , " Exempt from every weak decay " That withers vulgar souls away ! " * -I own your charms , nor am I blind To all the tenderness of mind , The feelings ...
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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
Popular passages
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.