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1.
A gold watch found on cinder whore
First Line:
A gold watch found on cinder whore
Last Line:
Not that they're rich but that they steal
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
2931
2.
Accept a miracle instead of wit
First Line:
Accept a miracle instead of wit
Last Line:
See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
33960
3.
Alas poor Aeschylus unlucky dog
First Line:
Alas poor Aeschylus unlucky dog
Last Line:
Whom once a lobster killed and now a log
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
2762
4.
Annius crafty seer with ebon wand
First Line:
Annius crafty seer with ebon wand
Last Line:
Blessed in one Niger till he knows of two
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28190
5.
Authors the world and their dull brains have traced
First Line:
Authors the world and their dull brains have traced
Last Line:
Here here's the place where these bright angels walk
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
22055
6.
Be gone ye critics and restrain your spite
First Line:
Be gone ye critics and restrain your spite
Last Line:
Since tis enough we find it so in you
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
7307
7.
Behold ambitious of the British bays
First Line:
Behold ambitious of the British bays
Last Line:
For Duck can thresh you know as well as write
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
2956
8.
Burnet and Ducket friends in spite
First Line:
Burnet and Ducket friends in spite
Last Line:
For both heads are but tails
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
2772
9.
But Annius crafty seer with ebon wand
First Line:
But Annius crafty seer with ebon wand
Last Line:
And Douglas lend his soft obstetric hand
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28163
10.
But where each science lifts its modern type
First Line:
But where each science lifts its modern type
Last Line:
In Toland's Tindal's and in Woolston's days
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
2995
11.
Close to the best known author Umbra sits
First Line:
Close to the best known author Umbra sits
Last Line:
Know sense like charity begins at home
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
1973
12.
Did Milton's prose o Charles thy death defend
First Line:
Did Milton's prose o Charles thy death defend
Last Line:
The murderous critic has avenged thy murder
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
3047
13.
Dulness the safe opiate of the mind
First Line:
Dulness the safe opiate of the mind
Last Line:
Unfeared unhated undisturbed it lives
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28998
14.
In clouded majesty here dulness shone
First Line:
In clouded majesty here dulness shone
Last Line:
And solid pudding against empty praise
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
29802
15.
In merry old England it once was a rule
First Line:
In merry old England it once was a rule
Last Line:
That C----r can serve both for fool and for poet
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
15802
16.
In merry old England it once was a rule
First Line:
In merry old England it once was a rule
Last Line:
That Cibber can serve for both fool and for poet
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
2756
17.
Jove called before him the other day
First Line:
Jove called before him the other day
Last Line:
To the great name of Tom Durfy
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
1969
18.
My sons she answered both have done your parts
First Line:
My sons she answered both have done your parts
Last Line:
Mother of arrogance and source of pride
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28193
19.
Moore always smiles whenever he recites
First Line:
Moore always smiles whenever he recites
Last Line:
A modest man may like what's not his own
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
2764
20.
If meagre Gildon draw his venal quill
First Line:
If meagre Gildon draw his venal quill
Last Line:
Who would not weep if A---n were he
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
3050
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