Proverbs in Porcelain, and Other VersesC. Kegan Paul, 1878 - 216 psl. A manuscript revision of: Proverbs in porcelain and other verses / by Austin Dobson. London : H.S. King & Co., 1877. A printed copy of the 1st ed., with holograph corrections made in preparation of the 2nd ed. Punctuation, formatting, words, lines and poems are corrected or crossed out, pages are reordered, and holograph and printed pages are tipped in before or pasted over existing text. |
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... DENISE , are my Suitors ! DENISE . Where ? THE PRINCESS . These fish . I feed them daily here at morn and night With crumbs of favour , -scraps of graciousness , Not The Idyll of the Carp.
... DENISE , are my Suitors ! DENISE . Where ? THE PRINCESS . These fish . I feed them daily here at morn and night With crumbs of favour , -scraps of graciousness , Not The Idyll of the Carp.
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... DENISE . You're jesting ! THE PRINCESS . Not at all . Watch but the great one yonder ! There's the Duke ; — Those gill - marks mean his Order of St. Luke ; Those old skin - stains his boasted quarterings . Look what a swirl and roll of ...
... DENISE . You're jesting ! THE PRINCESS . Not at all . Watch but the great one yonder ! There's the Duke ; — Those gill - marks mean his Order of St. Luke ; Those old skin - stains his boasted quarterings . Look what a swirl and roll of ...
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... DENISE . DENISE . I think I have . But there's another , older and more grave , — The one that wears the round patch on the throat , And swims with such slow fins . Is he of note ? THE PRINCESS . Why that's my good chambellan — with his ...
... DENISE . DENISE . I think I have . But there's another , older and more grave , — The one that wears the round patch on the throat , And swims with such slow fins . Is he of note ? THE PRINCESS . Why that's my good chambellan — with his ...
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... DENISE . Ai ! what a splash ! Who is it comes with such a sudden dash Plump in the midst , and leaps the others clear ? THE PRINCESS . Ho ! for a trumpet ! Let the bells be rung ! Baron of Sans - terre , Lord of Prés - 90 The Idyll of ...
... DENISE . Ai ! what a splash ! Who is it comes with such a sudden dash Plump in the midst , and leaps the others clear ? THE PRINCESS . Ho ! for a trumpet ! Let the bells be rung ! Baron of Sans - terre , Lord of Prés - 90 The Idyll of ...
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... DENISE . I'd rather wear E'en such a patched and melancholy air , As his , —that motley one , —who keeps the wall , And hugs his own lean thoughts for carnival . THE PRINCESS . My frankest wooer ! Thus his love he tells To mournful ...
... DENISE . I'd rather wear E'en such a patched and melancholy air , As his , —that motley one , —who keeps the wall , And hugs his own lean thoughts for carnival . THE PRINCESS . My frankest wooer ! Thus his love he tells To mournful ...
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ABBÉ Austin Dobson Autonoë BALLAD BARON BEAU BROCADE birds blow Bluebottle brow Caliph CHALCEDONY Child COUNTESS Cupid's Alley Cyclops dance Davus dear DENISE DOLLY the Chambermaid door Dora dream e'en eau de Cologne Etesian eyes fancies Farewell Fate Finis comes Gallions of Spayne GEORGE the Guard give us-but Yesterday goat graceful green HORTENSE L'ÉTOILE laughing rhyme little Bowes London stones look Love Love's LOYAL M'sieu Maid Monsieur morning Muse night NINETTE NINON NOTE o'er once Ovid pains of prose pale PANTOUM pipe and flute poem poetic Poets poor Miss Tox Porto Bello PRINCESS ripple of laughing Rondeau Rondel saw you last Shepherdess Dorine adored smile soft song Stand and Deliver stirred strange surely sweet swine tear There's thou thought Triolets turned twas vers de société verse VIEUXBOIS Vignettes in Rhyme Villanelle voice waken woes youth
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