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1. A dreadful plague from angry Juno came

First Line:
A dreadful plague from angry Juno came
Last Line:
To fill your sails and favour your intent
Author:
William Stonestreet (Absolute)
DMI number:
4174

2. A faultless sonnet finished thus would be

First Line:
A faultless sonnet finished thus would be
Last Line:
Worth tedious volumes of loose poetry
DMI number:
10398

3. A fool is known by looking wise

First Line:
A fool is known by looking wise
Last Line:
As men find woodcocks by their eyes
Author:
Samuel Butler (Absolute)
DMI number:
9580

4. A form more fine more accurately wrought

First Line:
A form more fine more accurately wrought
Last Line:
To me the heavenly messengers appear
Author:
Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer] (Confident)
DMI number:
6816

5. A genius formed to hold a kingdom's reins

First Line:
A genius formed to hold a kingdom's reins
Last Line:
Should slight the loitering life of idle swains
DMI number:
9573

6. A giant shepherd here his flock maintains

First Line:
A giant shepherd here his flock maintains
Last Line:
Crowned with rough thickets and a nodding wood
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31650

7. A being darkly wise and rudely great

First Line:
A being darkly wise and rudely great
Last Line:
The glory jest and riddle of the world
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28217

8. A bloom like thine attends the vernal rose

First Line:
A bloom like thine attends the vernal rose
Last Line:
And leave the strong impression deep behind
Author:
Samuel Croxall (Speculation)
DMI number:
12689

9. A brow-beat husband and triumphant wife

First Line:
A brow-beat husband and triumphant wife
Last Line:
Even let him try and be convinced who dares
Author:
Matthew Concanen (Absolute)
DMI number:
11332

10. A clergyman of special note

First Line:
A clergyman of special note
Last Line:
Take care betimes to run him down
Author:
Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:
40246

11. A critic was of old a glorious name

First Line:
A critic was of old a glorious name
Last Line:
And stab like bravoes all who come that way
Author:
Charles Churchill (Absolute)
DMI number:
30984

12. A curious eye

First Line:
A curious eye
Last Line:
And superscribed this from suspicion
Author:
John Chalkhill (Absolute)
DMI number:
13215

13. A Hama-Dryad flourished in these days

First Line:
A Hama-Dryad flourished in these days
Last Line:
How Venus once revenged neglected love
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
12025

14. A heat that glows in every line that's writ

First Line:
A heat that glows in every line that's writ
Last Line:
Describing all men yet described by none &c
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
10775

15. A higher flight and of a happier force

First Line:
A higher flight and of a happier force
Last Line:
With fury too as well as fancy fired
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
10414

16. A judge in equal scales cross arguments should lay

First Line:
A judge in equal scales cross arguments should lay
Last Line:
And let that be his rule which heaviest does weigh
DMI number:
9590

17. a just coherence made

First Line:
a just coherence made
Last Line:
Like goodly mountains till they reach the skies
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
13064

18. A king is sought to guide the growing state

First Line:
A king is sought to guide the growing state
Last Line:
And all the muses over his acts preside
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
12035

19. A mother who vast pleasure finds

First Line:
A mother who vast pleasure finds
Last Line:
And tell of Addison and Pope
Author:
Mary Barber (Absolute)
DMI number:
30509

20. A man so sedulous sincere and kind

First Line:
A man so sedulous sincere and kind
Last Line:
For his own works shall praise him in the gate
DMI number:
9615

21. A man so various that he seemed to be

First Line:
A man so various that he seemed to be
Last Line:
And nothing unrewarded went except desert
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
17610

22. A man so various that he seemed to be

First Line:
A man so various that he seemed to be
Last Line:
He left not faction but of that was left
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
28732

23. A matter of the most important weight

First Line:
A matter of the most important weight
Last Line:
All things to ruin and confusion run
DMI number:
7617

24. A messenger came to the king

First Line:
A messenger came to the king
Last Line:
Ywis of none never heard ye
DMI number:
37596

25. A moment's space a transient span

First Line:
A moment's space a transient span
Last Line:
So short is life so frail is man
DMI number:
34207

26. A perfect judge will read each work of wit

First Line:
A perfect judge will read each work of wit
Last Line:
Dulness is ever apt to magnify
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30645

27. A perfect judge will read each work of wit

First Line:
A perfect judge will read each work of wit
Last Line:
Invention labours less but judgment more
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute) & Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:
29633

28. A poem's life and death dependeth still

First Line:
A poem's life and death dependeth still
Last Line:
Not on the poet's wit but reader's will
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
17212

29. A poet to applaud or boldly blame

First Line:
A poet to applaud or boldly blame
Last Line:
And vice to dark oblivion is betrayed
Author:
Dermot O'Connor (Absolute)
DMI number:
27118

30. A poet's then exact in every part

First Line:
A poet's then exact in every part
Last Line:
In lightest dressings and becomes them too
Author:
Martin Lluelyn (Absolute)
DMI number:
17207

31. A poor wydowe som dele ystept in age

First Line:
A poor wydowe som dele ystept in age
Last Line:
And like the burned gold was his coloure
Author:
Geoffrey Chaucer (Absolute)
DMI number:
9822

32. A serious lover can alone explain

First Line:
A serious lover can alone explain
Last Line:
Than all the flowers of rhetoric can do
DMI number:
6838

33. A spirit that inspires the work throughout

First Line:
A spirit that inspires the work throughout
Last Line:
As that of nature moves the world about
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
10773

34. A spirit which inspires the work throughout

First Line:
A spirit which inspires the work throughout
Last Line:
As that of nature moves the world about
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
10390

35. A spirit which inspires the work throughout

First Line:
A spirit which inspires the work throughout
Last Line:
Describing all men but described by none
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
10391

36. A squire he had whose name was Ralph

First Line:
A squire he had whose name was Ralph
Last Line:
With which like ships they steer their courses
Author:
Samuel Butler (Absolute)
DMI number:
31548

37. A primitive christian and a saint in this

First Line:
A primitive christian and a saint in this
Last Line:
And glorious as a rising sun her eye
DMI number:
6869

38. A pure an active an auspicious flame

First Line:
A pure an active an auspicious flame
Last Line:
And bright as heaven from whence the blessing came
Author:
Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:
10774

39. A quack too scandalously mean to name

First Line:
A quack too scandalously mean to name
Last Line:
With maudling eloquence of trickling eyes
Author:
Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:
10799

40. A real grief with silent steps proceeds

First Line:
A real grief with silent steps proceeds
Last Line:
And love unfeigned with inward passion bleeds
Author:
William King (Absolute) & Jonathan Swift (Speculation)
DMI number:
9566

41. A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn

First Line:
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn
Last Line:
More wise more learned more just more everything
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
22413

42. A scanty fortune clips the wings of fame

First Line:
A scanty fortune clips the wings of fame
Last Line:
And wit in rags is turned to ridicule
Author:
Thomas Parnell (Confident) & John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
29813

43. A verse may find him who a sermon flies

First Line:
A verse may find him who a sermon flies
Last Line:
And turn delight into a sacrifice
Author:
George Herbert (Absolute)
DMI number:
17203

44. A verse may hit him whom a sermon flies

First Line:
A verse may hit him whom a sermon flies
Last Line:
And turn delight into a sacrifice
Author:
George Herbert (Absolute)
DMI number:
6942

45. A vile conceit in pompous words expressed

First Line:
A vile conceit in pompous words expressed
Last Line:
Is like a clown in regal purple dressed
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
9499

46. A large conscience is all one

First Line:
A large conscience is all one
Last Line:
And signifies the same with none
Author:
Samuel Butler (Absolute)
DMI number:
9595

47. A list the cobblers temple ties

First Line:
A list the cobblers temple ties
Last Line:
That princes wear derives from them
Author:
Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:
18202

48. A long remove from prudence wit and arts

First Line:
A long remove from prudence wit and arts
Last Line:
Sets us below our very natural parts
Author:
Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:
9561

49. Ah friend to dazzle let the vain design

First Line:
Ah friend to dazzle let the vain design
Last Line:
And mistress of herself though China fall
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31286

50. Ah he who first found out the way

First Line:
Ah he who first found out the way
Last Line:
That was by the dear billet doux betrayed
Author:
Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:
2858