The Witty and Humorous of the English Poets: With Specimens Arranged in PeriodsLow, 1880 - 335 psl. |
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... live in a monastery constructed of all sorts of luscious viands . The writer tells us that There is a well fair abbey Of white monks and grey ; There be bowers and halls ; All of pasties be the walls , Of flesh and fish and rich meat ...
... live in a monastery constructed of all sorts of luscious viands . The writer tells us that There is a well fair abbey Of white monks and grey ; There be bowers and halls ; All of pasties be the walls , Of flesh and fish and rich meat ...
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... lives in literature in his Utopia . It is not , perhaps , generally known that he possessed considerable powers of satire , apart from those which are displayed in his great work , and are visible in certain scraps of English verse . He ...
... lives in literature in his Utopia . It is not , perhaps , generally known that he possessed considerable powers of satire , apart from those which are displayed in his great work , and are visible in certain scraps of English verse . He ...
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... towers , plain life and lettered peace , To read and rhyme in solitary fields , The lark above , the nightingale below , And answer them in song . nevertheless despised the life that he was forced to live CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE . 19.
... towers , plain life and lettered peace , To read and rhyme in solitary fields , The lark above , the nightingale below , And answer them in song . nevertheless despised the life that he was forced to live CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE . 19.
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... live ,. and has attacked it in one of the few Satires ( three only- in number ) that he wrote . He there says of it : Mine own John Poins , since you delight to know The causes why that homeward I me draw , And fly the press of courts ...
... live ,. and has attacked it in one of the few Satires ( three only- in number ) that he wrote . He there says of it : Mine own John Poins , since you delight to know The causes why that homeward I me draw , And fly the press of courts ...
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... live and lie at rest . The rich old man that sees his end draw on so fore , How he would be a boy again , to live so much the more . Whereat full oft I smiled , to see how all these three , From boy to man , from man to boy , would chop ...
... live and lie at rest . The rich old man that sees his end draw on so fore , How he would be a boy again , to live so much the more . Whereat full oft I smiled , to see how all these three , From boy to man , from man to boy , would chop ...
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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 famous fancy fool George Gascoigne give grace hand heart Henry Luttrell 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 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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