The Cat-fight: A Mock Heroic Poem. Supported with Copious Extracts from Ancient and Modern Classic Authors ...1824 - Cats - 276 pages |
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... once stood high on fortune's ladder ; From whence contrive the fickle jilt did , That your petitioner should be tilted . And soon the unconscionable flirt , Will wield me fairly in the dirt ; Unless , perchance , these pithy lays ...
... once stood high on fortune's ladder ; From whence contrive the fickle jilt did , That your petitioner should be tilted . And soon the unconscionable flirt , Will wield me fairly in the dirt ; Unless , perchance , these pithy lays ...
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... once , in words which , it is thought , will be bedewed by the tears of ages . 86 The Poet's account of the Nocturnal Enterprise of Nisus and Euryalus . Mnestheus and brave Serestus walk the round , Commission'd by their absent prince ...
... once , in words which , it is thought , will be bedewed by the tears of ages . 86 The Poet's account of the Nocturnal Enterprise of Nisus and Euryalus . Mnestheus and brave Serestus walk the round , Commission'd by their absent prince ...
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... . The hyacinth betrays the doleful Ai , And calls the tribute of Apollo's sigh ; Still on its bloom the mournful flowers retain The lovely blue that died the stripling's vein . And roughen'd up the once smooth face of nature . 55.
... . The hyacinth betrays the doleful Ai , And calls the tribute of Apollo's sigh ; Still on its bloom the mournful flowers retain The lovely blue that died the stripling's vein . And roughen'd up the once smooth face of nature . 55.
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... once smooth face of nature . Hence see Vesuvius with his boiling crater : Pomona , fir'd with rival envy , views The glaring pride of Flora's darting hues , Where Flora bids the purple Iris spread , She hangs the wielding blossom white ...
... once smooth face of nature . Hence see Vesuvius with his boiling crater : Pomona , fir'd with rival envy , views The glaring pride of Flora's darting hues , Where Flora bids the purple Iris spread , She hangs the wielding blossom white ...
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... once they rose , at once their course renew'd , And up the steep ascent the way pursued . When lo ! a serpent , rushing from his cell , Oppos'd their passage , horrible and fell ! Aloft his head and squalid breast he held Bestreak'd ...
... once they rose , at once their course renew'd , And up the steep ascent the way pursued . When lo ! a serpent , rushing from his cell , Oppos'd their passage , horrible and fell ! Aloft his head and squalid breast he held Bestreak'd ...
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Page 274 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore, When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Page 134 - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, "I'm sorry— but we all must die!
Page 162 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night, A glimmering dawn : here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Page 88 - By four cherubic shapes ; four faces each Had wondrous ; as with stars, their bodies all, And wings, were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...
Page 83 - Yet soon he heal'd ; for Spirits, that live throughout Vital in every part, not as frail Man In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die; Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more than can the fluid air...
Page 82 - Was given him temper'd so, that neither keen Nor solid might resist that edge : it met The sword of Satan, with steep force to smite Descending, and in half cut sheer...
Page 90 - Among them he arriv'd ; in his right hand Grasping ten thousand thunders, which he sent Before him, such as in their souls infix'd Plagues...
Page 132 - Now the departing prayer is read: He hardly breathes. The Dean is dead. Before the passing-bell begun, The news through half the town has run. O, may we all for Death prepare! What has he left? And who's his heir?
Page 274 - In yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ; The year's best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its poet's sylvan grave.
Page 133 - Lady Suffolk, in the spleen, Runs laughing up to tell the queen. The queen, so gracious, mild, and good, Cries, " Is he gone ? 'tis time he should.