Eighteenth-century PoetryPatricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks Prentice-Hall, 1964 - 451 pages |
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Page 57
... face . Whate'er those dire forebodings meant , In mirth the wedding - day was spent ; The wedding - day , you take me right , I promise nothing for the night . The bridegroom , dressed to make a figure , Assumes an artificial vigor ; A ...
... face . Whate'er those dire forebodings meant , In mirth the wedding - day was spent ; The wedding - day , you take me right , I promise nothing for the night . The bridegroom , dressed to make a figure , Assumes an artificial vigor ; A ...
Page 196
... face of mortal seen ; In chamber brooding like a loathly toad , And sure his linen was not very clean ; Through secret loop - hole , that had practised been Near to his bed , his dinner vile he took ; 545 Unkempt , and rough , of squalid ...
... face of mortal seen ; In chamber brooding like a loathly toad , And sure his linen was not very clean ; Through secret loop - hole , that had practised been Near to his bed , his dinner vile he took ; 545 Unkempt , and rough , of squalid ...
Page 389
... like the gorget showed , Dye - varying on the pigeon ; And for a mantle large and broad , He wrapped him in Religion . HYPOCRISY À - LA - MODE 10 15 20 20 Upon a simmer Sunday morn , When Nature's face is Robert Burns 389 The Holy Fair.
... like the gorget showed , Dye - varying on the pigeon ; And for a mantle large and broad , He wrapped him in Religion . HYPOCRISY À - LA - MODE 10 15 20 20 Upon a simmer Sunday morn , When Nature's face is Robert Burns 389 The Holy Fair.
Contents
Introduction | xvii |
Matthew Prior | xxiv |
To the Honorable Charles Montague Esq | 2 |
Copyright | |
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ADORATION auld auld lang syne bard beauty beneath bless breast breath charms Christopher Smart clouds Cowper death delight Dunciad e'er earth eighteenth-century ev'n ev'ry fair fame fancy fate fear fire flame flowers frae golden reign grace hand hear heart heav'n honor hour human J. V. Cunningham John John Gay Jonathan Swift king lasses light Lord lyre maid Matthew Prior mind morn Muse nature Nature's ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace periphrasis Philip Larkin plain play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry pow'r praise pride rise round scene scorn sense shade shine sighs sing skelpin sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit Spring strain stream swain sweet Swift thee thou thought toil trembling Twas vale verse virtue voice walk wild William Cowper wind wing woods youth