The Witty and Humorous of the English Poets: With Specimens Arranged in PeriodsLow, 1880 - 335 psl. |
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... effort ; they have all the latter's buffoonery and horseplay , and none of his occasionally genuine humour . For Heywood's happiest work the reader must needs go to his book of epigrams , a form of verse of which he was the earliest ...
... effort ; they have all the latter's buffoonery and horseplay , and none of his occasionally genuine humour . For Heywood's happiest work the reader must needs go to his book of epigrams , a form of verse of which he was the earliest ...
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... efforts is his Satire on the Town Ladies of his time , from which the following stanzas are extracted : Some wifis of the borrowstoun Sae wonder vain are , and wantoun , In warld they wait [ wot ] not what to weir : On claithis they ...
... efforts is his Satire on the Town Ladies of his time , from which the following stanzas are extracted : Some wifis of the borrowstoun Sae wonder vain are , and wantoun , In warld they wait [ wot ] not what to weir : On claithis they ...
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... efforts can claim any consideration what- One of these , On the House of Commons , ' runs : ever . When lately Pym descended into hell , Ere he the cups of Lethè did carouse , What place that was , he called loud to tell- To whom a ...
... efforts can claim any consideration what- One of these , On the House of Commons , ' runs : ever . When lately Pym descended into hell , Ere he the cups of Lethè did carouse , What place that was , he called loud to tell- To whom a ...
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... effort and without boredom . We have a very different caterer in Robert Herrick- Herrick , the Anacreon of England - who , with all his quaintness , is but rarely obscure , and is very often as clear and limpid as the most cherished of ...
... effort and without boredom . We have a very different caterer in Robert Herrick- Herrick , the Anacreon of England - who , with all his quaintness , is but rarely obscure , and is very often as clear and limpid as the most cherished of ...
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... efforts . Not even Pope - certainly neither Gifford nor yet Byron - has bequeathed to us personal satire of so biting and discerning a description . The leading politicians of the time stand before us in all the nakedness of an ex ...
... efforts . Not even Pope - certainly neither Gifford nor yet Byron - has bequeathed to us personal satire of so biting and discerning a description . The leading politicians of the time stand before us in all the nakedness of an ex ...
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Absalom and Achitophel admirable amusing Ballads Bards black crow Born burlesque Byron called character charming Chaucer clever comedy comic contemporaries courtier Cowper dance Devil died doth dramatists Dryden Dunciad English epigram example eyes fair familiar famous fancy fool George Gascoigne give grace hand heart Hood Horace Horace Smith humourist John King lady laughed Leigh Hunt lines live look Lord Lord Lytton lover maid merry Mortimer Collins Muse ne'er never o'er once parody perhaps persiflage pieces play poem poet poetry poor Pope prose quoted R. H. Barham racter rhyme Rolliad satire satirist sigh sing smile song specimen style sweet tell thee There's things thou thought tone true Twas vein verse W. S. Gilbert whilst wit and humour witty and humorous writer written wrote young
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