English SatiresWilliam Henry Oliphant Smeaton Blackie & Son, 1906 - 298 Seiten |
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... heroes and poets , no women but nymphs and shepherdesses : trees have borne fritters , and rivers flowed plum - porridge . When he writes , he commonly steers the sense of his lines by the rhyme that is at the end of them , as butchers ...
... heroes and poets , no women but nymphs and shepherdesses : trees have borne fritters , and rivers flowed plum - porridge . When he writes , he commonly steers the sense of his lines by the rhyme that is at the end of them , as butchers ...
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... heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry , Where infant punks their tender voices try , And little Maximins the gods defy . Great Fletcher never treads in buskins here , Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear ; But ...
... heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry , Where infant punks their tender voices try , And little Maximins the gods defy . Great Fletcher never treads in buskins here , Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear ; But ...
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... hero : ' Tis the picture drawn at length , which you admire and prize so much in little . None of your orna- ments are wanting ; neither the landscape of the tower , nor the rising sun ; nor the Anno Domini of your new sovereign's ...
... hero : ' Tis the picture drawn at length , which you admire and prize so much in little . None of your orna- ments are wanting ; neither the landscape of the tower , nor the rising sun ; nor the Anno Domini of your new sovereign's ...
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... heroes , by silencing at once the whole university of Grub Street . I am persuaded that nothing but the pros- pect of an approaching peace could have encouraged them to make so bold a step . But suffer me , in the name of the rest of ...
... heroes , by silencing at once the whole university of Grub Street . I am persuaded that nothing but the pros- pect of an approaching peace could have encouraged them to make so bold a step . But suffer me , in the name of the rest of ...
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... heroes of the Old Bailey ? How didst thou describe their intrepid march up Holborn Hill ? Nor didst thou shine less in thy theological capa- city , when thou gavest ghostly counsels to dying felons , and didst record the guilty pangs of ...
... heroes of the Old Bailey ? How didst thou describe their intrepid march up Holborn Hill ? Nor didst thou shine less in thy theological capa- city , when thou gavest ghostly counsels to dying felons , and didst record the guilty pangs of ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Anticyra Baboon better bless Bossuet Bull and Frog called Catholics character Church costive court dance devil Do-best Do-wel Dryden dulness English ev'ry eyes fame favour fear folly Fontanges fool Friend of Humanity Frog genius give grace hand head hear heart heigh-ho hero honour House House of Commons House of Hanover Hudibras John John Bull John Dryden king Knave Lady laugh laws learned live Lord Strutt Majesty mind Muse Nahum Tate nature ne'er never niversity of Gottingen numbers o'er once Ovid Parliament peace person pleased poem poet political poor Popanilla Pope pow'r praise pride prince religion satire satirist sense smile soul style tarts tell thee things thou thought tion true truth turn verse virtue Waltz Whig wise write young