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1. Accept a miracle instead of wit

First Line:
Accept a miracle instead of wit
Last Line:
See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
13498

2. An epigram that's new sharp near and witty

First Line:
An epigram that's new sharp near and witty
Last Line:
Once common though still good they are neglected
DMI number:
43775

3. Arise ye glimmering stars of wit

First Line:
Arise ye glimmering stars of wit
Last Line:
For lo the sun of verse is set
DMI number:
25174

4. B-- though with scraps of others wit

First Line:
B-- though with scraps of others wit
Last Line:
For silence can't like books be bought
DMI number:
12731

5. Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit

First Line:
Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit
Last Line:
Hammering out paltry lines twelve times twelve hundred
DMI number:
9446

6. Could witty Rochester return again

First Line:
Could witty Rochester return again
Last Line:
He'd silence Rochester for want of wit
DMI number:
27959

7. Each softening charm of Clio's smiling song

First Line:
Each softening charm of Clio's smiling song
Last Line:
The muses and the virtues tune thy mind
Author:
Richard Savage (Confident)
DMI number:
13091

8. Fate rules us then to fate give way

First Line:
Fate rules us then to fate give way
Last Line:
What have you against this to say
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
35384

9. Great wits do not live many days

First Line:
Great wits do not live many days
Last Line:
But thou o laureate live for ever
DMI number:
24800

10. In all the epigrams you write we trace

First Line:
In all the epigrams you write we trace
Last Line:
High seasoned like my dishes be my wit
DMI number:
27490

11. In Greece of old the candidates of fame

First Line:
In Greece of old the candidates of fame
Last Line:
And where she took him up will lay him down
DMI number:
3522

12. Invectives we too oft at others throw

First Line:
Invectives we too oft at others throw
Last Line:
Nor spoke to Fuller more in all his life
DMI number:
24681

13. My Pylades what Juvenal says no jest is

First Line:
My Pylades what Juvenal says no jest is
Last Line:
Scriptus et in tergo nec dum finitus Orestes
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
35385

14. If B----re labours as he writes to please

First Line:
If B----re labours as he writes to please
Last Line:
As if cannot fall it cannot rise
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3605

15. If bards would have a shortlived poem writ

First Line:
If bards would have a shortlived poem writ
Last Line:
To file the rust of wit from P----ck's sense
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3583

16. If wit as we are told be a disease

First Line:
If wit as we are told be a disease
Last Line:
Tis from his pen the grand elixir flows
Author:
Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
3763

17. If you those epigrams commend

First Line:
If you those epigrams commend
Last Line:
Because it ends with --- none at all
DMI number:
21073

18. Leave off for shame thy scribbling itch give over

First Line:
Leave off for shame thy scribbling itch give over
Last Line:
Yet even heroic verse shall stoop to thee
DMI number:
43411

19. Playwright me reads and still my verses damns

First Line:
Playwright me reads and still my verses damns
Last Line:
In my chaste book profess them in thine own
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
13069

20. Poet said Chloe with a laugh

First Line:
Poet said Chloe with a laugh
Last Line:
Both epitaph and elegy
DMI number:
36024