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" They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge. "
The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c - Page 6
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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A lecture on wit, humour, and pathos

Benjamin Lambert - Humor in literature - 1861 - 62 pages
...board the barge. No place is sacred, not the church is free, Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me : Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me — just at dinner time. "Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many...
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Poets' Wit and Humour

English poetry - 1861 - 300 pages
...board the barge. No plaee is saered, not the ehureh is free, Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me : Then from the mint walks forth the man of rhyme. Happy ! to eateh me — just at dinner time. Is there a parson, mueh bemus'd in beer. A maudlin poetess, a rhyming...
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Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with biogr. notices ...

English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...board the barge. No place is sacred, not the church is free, Even Sunday shines no sabbath-day to me ; Then from the mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...board the barge. No place is sacred, not the church is free, E'en Sunday shines no sabbath day to me : Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner time. Is there a parson much bemus'd in beer. A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk...
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Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons ..., Volume 2

John Timbs - London (England) - 1865 - 338 pages
...needy poets : No place is sacred, not the church is free, E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. Johnson has truly said : " The great topic of his (Pope's) ridicule is poverty...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. Cary

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...board the barge. No place is sacred, not the church is free, Even Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me : Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A...
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The Standard Fifth Reader for Public and Private Schools: Containing a ...

Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...board the barge. No place is sacred, not the church is free, Even Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me ; Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. 2. Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin *" poetess, a rhyming peer,...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...could uotdie. Sh. V. SfA. 41. Let me not stay a jot for dinner : go, Get it ready. Sfs. Lear, i. 4. Then from the mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies thro their mouths, or I mistake...
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London: It's Celebrated Characters And Remarkable Places

J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 pages
...decayed poets. " No place is sacred, not the church is free, Even Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me : Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time." Epistle to Arbuthnot. And again in the same inimitable poem — "If want provoked,...
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Satires and Epistles

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 pages
...the barge. 10 No place is sacred, not the church is free, Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me : Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much be-mus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A...
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