Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorPhillips, Sampson, 1857 |
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... , and Pope as the most pleasing versifier . - Cibber's Lives . He comes , he comes ! bid every bard prepare The song of triumph , and attend his car . THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE . PASTORALS . SPRING ZLA LIFE OF POPE .
... , and Pope as the most pleasing versifier . - Cibber's Lives . He comes , he comes ! bid every bard prepare The song of triumph , and attend his car . THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE . PASTORALS . SPRING ZLA LIFE OF POPE .
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... Cibber , nay , has rhymed for Moore : Full ten years slander'd , did he once reply ? Three thousand suns went down on Welsted's lie To please a mistress one aspersed his life ; He lash'd him not , but let her be his wife : Let Budgell ...
... Cibber , nay , has rhymed for Moore : Full ten years slander'd , did he once reply ? Three thousand suns went down on Welsted's lie To please a mistress one aspersed his life ; He lash'd him not , but let her be his wife : Let Budgell ...
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... Cibber , I'll maintain it still , Than ridicule all taste , blaspheme quadrille , Abuse the city's best good men in metre , And laugh at peers that put their trust in Peter ; E'en those you touch not , hate you . P. What should ail ' em ...
... Cibber , I'll maintain it still , Than ridicule all taste , blaspheme quadrille , Abuse the city's best good men in metre , And laugh at peers that put their trust in Peter ; E'en those you touch not , hate you . P. What should ail ' em ...
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... Cibber now has left the stage : Our generals now , retired to their estates , Hang their old trophies o'er the garden gates , In life's cool evening satiate of applause , Nor fond of bleeding , e'en in Brunswick's cause . A voice there ...
... Cibber now has left the stage : Our generals now , retired to their estates , Hang their old trophies o'er the garden gates , In life's cool evening satiate of applause , Nor fond of bleeding , e'en in Brunswick's cause . A voice there ...
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... Cibber's age . ' All this may be ; the people's voice is odd , It is , and it is not , the voice of God . To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays , And yet deny the Careless Husband praise , Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then ...
... Cibber's age . ' All this may be ; the people's voice is odd , It is , and it is not , the voice of God . To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays , And yet deny the Careless Husband praise , Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then ...
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