EpigramsRobert Maynard Leonard H. Milford, 1915 - 127 strani |
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asses BEN JONSON BYROM Cain been Scot Chloe Chloris COVENTRY PATMORE CowPER CRASHAW cries Cupid dead death divine doth Eheu fugaces epigram Epitaph fair fame fool Fortune Gardener's Rule GARNETT give God's Graces grave Greek Anthology Grief and Gladness H. J. BYRON HARINGTON heart Heaven HERRICK Honour HOOD HORACE J. E. THOROLD ROGERS J. K. STEPHEN JAMES SMITH JEKYLL JONSON King kiss knave know'st Lady LAMB Latin by Owen live LORD ERSKINE LORD HOLLAND LORD LANSDOWNE LUTTRELL Martial MOORE Muse never Nymphs O.G.-EPIGRAMS o'er Oxford Parson permission of Messrs poet POPE praise pray PRIOR R. B. SHERIDAN R. H. BARHAM R. W. EMERSON S. T. COLERIDGE sage sighs sinner smile soul sweet SWIFT tell THEODORE HOOK thine thing thou art thou hast thou mayst Thou shalt Topaz Twas Unquiet Venus verse W. S. LANDOR wife wine wise witty young
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Stran 17 - Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune : Could love and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit ;— he believed in a God. A post or a pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire.
Stran 22 - In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen, about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Stran 5 - CHARLES II. Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
Stran 90 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Stran 48 - Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.' Strange all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Stran 30 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
Stran 35 - TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH. You did late review my lays, Crusty Christopher; You did mingle blame and praise, Rusty Christopher. When I learnt from whom it came, I forgave you all the blame, Musty Christopher ; I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher.
Stran 84 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Stran 23 - THOU wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light had fled ; Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving New splendour to the dead.
Stran 67 - I'll leave her : Would I were free from this restraint, Or else had hopes to win her : Would she could make of me a saint, Or I of her a sinner ! " What a conquering air there is about these ! What an irresistible Mr.