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1.
A pleasing subject first with care provide
First Line:
A pleasing subject first with care provide
Last Line:
And sure to please although ten times repeated
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
3045
2.
Ah kind physician thy receipt will prove
First Line:
Ah kind physician thy receipt will prove
Last Line:
He can prescribe in love and write receipts
Author:
John Hervey (Speculation)
DMI number:
25077
3.
All materials are the same
First Line:
All materials are the same
Last Line:
But pleads within for me
Author:
Charles Montagu (Speculation) & John Wilson (Absolute)
DMI number:
3238
4.
Fashioned alike by nature and by art
First Line:
Fashioned alike by nature and by art
Last Line:
In private life by all who knew her loved
Author:
John Hervey (Speculation) & Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont] (Confident)
DMI number:
17574
5.
Forbear my dear Stephen with a fruitless desire
First Line:
Forbear my dear Stephen with a fruitless desire
Last Line:
And taste not expect what hereafter will bestow
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
25551
6.
Forbear my dear Strephon with fruitless desire
First Line:
Forbear my dear Strephon with fruitless desire
Last Line:
And take not expect what hereafter'll bestow
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
18831
7.
For think how few the joys allowed by fate
First Line:
For think how few the joys allowed by fate
Last Line:
And find with meaner charms one common doom
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
30934
8.
In two large columns on thy motley page
First Line:
In two large columns on thy motley page
Last Line:
Wander like him accursed through the land
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute) & Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont] (Absolute) & William Windham (Absolute)
DMI number:
12337
9.
Old I to show his most elegant taste
First Line:
Old I to show his most elegant taste
Last Line:
With a clump of scotch firs by way of a screen
Author:
John Hervey (Speculation) & Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (Speculation) & James Bramston (Speculation) & Philip Dormer Stanhope (Speculation)
DMI number:
26812
10.
Old I------y to show a most elegant taste
First Line:
Old I------y to show a most elegant taste
Last Line:
With a clump of Scots firs by way of a screen
Author:
John Hervey (Speculation) & Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (Speculation) & James Bramston (Speculation) & Philip Dormer Stanhope (Speculation)
DMI number:
17978
11.
Oh E--g--d attend while thy fate I deplore
First Line:
Oh E--g--d attend while thy fate I deplore
Last Line:
I tremble to think where these ch--ges may end | Derry down
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
17951
12.
Reader attend and if thine eye let fall
First Line:
Reader attend and if thine eye let fall
Last Line:
You've lived in paradise she dwells in heaven
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
17653
13.
Since language never can describe my pain
First Line:
Since language never can describe my pain
Last Line:
Tis all I ask eternally adieu
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
25328
14.
Think not I write my innocence to prove
First Line:
Think not I write my innocence to prove
Last Line:
Be any curse my punishment but thee
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
24433
15.
Tis somewhat that exists within
First Line:
Tis somewhat that exists within
Last Line:
Yet know not why nor what it is
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
12126
16.
To N-----k House lords knights and squires repair
First Line:
To N-----k House lords knights and squires repair
Last Line:
Bad is its head but ten times worse its heart
Author:
John Hervey (Confident) & Philip Dormer Stanhope (Confident)
DMI number:
17908
17.
To heal a wound a bee had made
First Line:
To heal a wound a bee had made
Last Line:
The sting within my heart
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute) & Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:
17697
18.
To heal the wound a bee had made
First Line:
To heal the wound a bee had made
Last Line:
The sting went through my heart
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute) & Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:
16112
19.
To heal the wound a bee had made
First Line:
To heal the wound a bee had made
Last Line:
The sting within my heart
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute) & Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:
42
20.
To heal the wound the bee had made
First Line:
To heal the wound the bee had made
Last Line:
The sting went through my heart
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute) & Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:
23068
21.
Two hopeful sons are sprung from -- loins
First Line:
Two hopeful sons are sprung from -- loins
Last Line:
The prattling monkey or the lump of lead
Author:
John Hervey (Confident) & Philip Dormer Stanhope (Confident)
DMI number:
17909
22.
What shall I say to fix thy wavering mind
First Line:
What shall I say to fix thy wavering mind
Last Line:
And all that man can taste of heaven below
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
25721
23.
What shall I say to fix thy wavering mind
First Line:
What shall I say to fix thy wavering mind
Last Line:
That passion burns which once thy vows professed
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
25552
24.
What do scholars and bards and astronomers wise
First Line:
What do scholars and bards and astronomers wise
Last Line:
For Richmond that evening had lent her her face
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
40498
25.
What do scholars and bards and philosophers wise
First Line:
What do scholars and bards and philosophers wise
Last Line:
For Richmond that night had lent her her face
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
1129
26.
When the great Earl of B---- with most dog-like submission
First Line:
When the great Earl of B---- with most dog-like submission
Last Line:
And enjoy that still life which you always called blessed
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
18259
27.
When the heart aches with anguish pines with grief
First Line:
When the heart aches with anguish pines with grief
Last Line:
And dread the prospect of succeeding woe
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
22496
28.
Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow
First Line:
Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow
Last Line:
Her rules are fixed and all her ways are just
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
1128