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1. Are these the effects is this then all I gain

First Line:
Are these the effects is this then all I gain
Last Line:
Which the first chaos did but typify
DMI number:
42576

2. Climb at court for me that will

First Line:
Climb at court for me that will
Last Line:
Death to him's a strange surprise
Author:
Andrew Marvell (Absolute)
DMI number:
4009

3. Erminia by the centinels surprized

First Line:
Erminia by the centinels surprized
Last Line:
Pursues a nobler face in military arms
Author:
Torquato Tasso (Absolute) & Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer] (Absolute)
DMI number:
21611

4. Erminia by the centinels surprized

First Line:
Erminia by the centinels surprized
Last Line:
Pursues a nobler fate in military arms
Author:
Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer] (Absolute)
DMI number:
6975

5. He that would great in science grow

First Line:
He that would great in science grow
Last Line:
Leaving both common souls and common clay
Author:
Walter Titley (Absolute)
DMI number:
27843

6. He who would great in science grow

First Line:
He who would great in science grow
Last Line:
Leaving both common souls and common clay
Author:
Walter Titley (Absolute)
DMI number:
3186

7. In tedious exile now too long detained

First Line:
In tedious exile now too long detained
Last Line:
In suppliant terms implore a kind redress
Author:
Samuel Croxall (Confident)
DMI number:
11662

8. In each ambitious measure crossed

First Line:
In each ambitious measure crossed
Last Line:
As shamefully as they came in
Author:
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (Speculation)
DMI number:
18291

9. Licinius if you would obtain

First Line:
Licinius if you would obtain
Last Line:
Too fondly court the prosperous gale
DMI number:
22100

10. Let mercenary souls with endless pain

First Line:
Let mercenary souls with endless pain
Last Line:
Glanced at the feathered or the footed game
DMI number:
22143

11. Scaeva thou art wise enough to tell

First Line:
Scaeva thou art wise enough to tell
Last Line:
Get help you rascal where you are not known
DMI number:
42207

12. Since active man can in the air rebound

First Line:
Since active man can in the air rebound
Last Line:
The vast conceptions of our teeming brains
Author:
Edward Ward (Confident)
DMI number:
9674

13. Ship that to us sweet Virgil owest

First Line:
Ship that to us sweet Virgil owest
Last Line:
To lay his thunder by
Author:
Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:
42032

14. So may the auspicious queen of love

First Line:
So may the auspicious queen of love
Last Line:
And pull the unwilling thunder down
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
883

15. Tempt not too much the boisterous main

First Line:
Tempt not too much the boisterous main
Last Line:
And all presumption fly
DMI number:
31201

16. Their vast ambition to dethrone the gods

First Line:
Their vast ambition to dethrone the gods
Last Line:
And doubtless thy had done it &c
DMI number:
39931

17. The sun's bright palace on high columns raised

First Line:
The sun's bright palace on high columns raised
Last Line:
Far from his country in the western world
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11874

18. The sun's bright palace on high pillars raised

First Line:
The sun's bright palace on high pillars raised
Last Line:
Far from his country in the western world
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
4154

19. Though to no peer you are allied

First Line:
Though to no peer you are allied
Last Line:
And careless of all other praise
DMI number:
19588

20. Tis done I tower to that degree

First Line:
Tis done I tower to that degree
Last Line:
And deck with hood my shoulders
Author:
Christopher Smart (Absolute)
DMI number:
25610