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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... stirred- ' Because the Light was gone ! ' 66 Ah , Cupid ! wanton Cupid ! ' Twas ever thus your Way : When Maids would bid you ply your Wings , You find Excuse to stay ! " L THE COUNTESS . Famous ! He earned whate'er he got : - But ...
... stirred- ' Because the Light was gone ! ' 66 Ah , Cupid ! wanton Cupid ! ' Twas ever thus your Way : When Maids would bid you ply your Wings , You find Excuse to stay ! " L THE COUNTESS . Famous ! He earned whate'er he got : - But ...
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... stirred ! — DOLLY grew white as a Windsor curd . Slipped not less from the mare , and bound Strips of her kirtle about his wound . Then , lest his Worship should rise and flee , Fettered his ankles - tenderly . Jumped on his chestnut ...
... stirred ! — DOLLY grew white as a Windsor curd . Slipped not less from the mare , and bound Strips of her kirtle about his wound . Then , lest his Worship should rise and flee , Fettered his ankles - tenderly . Jumped on his chestnut ...
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... stirred With pipe and flute ! But now for gold we plot and plan ; And from Beersheba unto Dan , An Orpheus ' self might pass unheard , Or find the night - jar's note preferred . Not so it fared , when time began , With pipe and flute ...
... stirred With pipe and flute ! But now for gold we plot and plan ; And from Beersheba unto Dan , An Orpheus ' self might pass unheard , Or find the night - jar's note preferred . Not so it fared , when time began , With pipe and flute ...
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... stirred him now or voῦς , He read " The Angel in the House ! " Nay worse . He , once sublime to chaff , Grew whimsically sore If we but named a photograph We found him simpering o'er ; Or told how in his chambers lurked A watch - guard ...
... stirred him now or voῦς , He read " The Angel in the House ! " Nay worse . He , once sublime to chaff , Grew whimsically sore If we but named a photograph We found him simpering o'er ; Or told how in his chambers lurked A watch - guard ...
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... Stirred by all instincts of the bestial breed ; But O Unmerciful ! O Pitiless ! Leave us not thus with sick men's hearts to bleed ! — To waste long days in yearning , dumb distress And memory of things gone , and utter hopelessness ...
... Stirred by all instincts of the bestial breed ; But O Unmerciful ! O Pitiless ! Leave us not thus with sick men's hearts to bleed ! — To waste long days in yearning , dumb distress And memory of things gone , and utter hopelessness ...
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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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