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1. A dog who had the envied hap

First Line:
A dog who had the envied hap
Last Line:
The dog must fast the boy be whipped
DMI number:
24971

2. A dying Latinist of great renown

First Line:
A dying Latinist of great renown
Last Line:
With female gender the case masculine
DMI number:
17152

3. 1 Positive is termed hard

First Line:
1 Positive is termed hard
Last Line:
A wearied spirit is the worst of all
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Absolute)
DMI number:
36502

4. A Berwick's cause tried by the laws

First Line:
A Berwick's cause tried by the laws
Last Line:
By which ye may expel him
DMI number:
37751

5. A Cambridge soph just freed from band and gown

First Line:
A Cambridge soph just freed from band and gown
Last Line:
I knew our fate for he's an Oxford man
DMI number:
31048

6. A clerk of Oxford next appeared in sight

First Line:
A clerk of Oxford next appeared in sight
Last Line:
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach
Author:
George Ogle (Absolute)
DMI number:
18340

7. A harlequin p-v-st cognomine prancer

First Line:
A harlequin p-v-st cognomine prancer
Last Line:
For who knows so much as our head of the c-ge
DMI number:
37743

8. A hen one evening to enjoy the cool

First Line:
A hen one evening to enjoy the cool
Last Line:
Strangers to thee and to thy schools
Author:
John Hall-Stevenson (Absolute)
DMI number:
30860

9. A trade of knowledge as replete

First Line:
A trade of knowledge as replete
Last Line:
And then they fall to th'argument
Author:
Samuel Butler (Absolute)
DMI number:
5545

10. A single comma set alone

First Line:
A single comma set alone
Last Line:
Et cetera so forth the rest
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Absolute)
DMI number:
36485

11. A stands for Adam made of earth

First Line:
A stands for Adam made of earth
Last Line:
In music Are Almire
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Speculation)
DMI number:
36510

12. A little learning is a dangerous thing

First Line:
A little learning is a dangerous thing
Last Line:
New distant scenes of endless science rise
DMI number:
30190

13. Ah me full sorely is my heart forlorn

First Line:
Ah me full sorely is my heart forlorn
Last Line:
Till reason's morn arise and light them on their way
Author:
William Shenstone (Absolute)
DMI number:
19721

14. Ah me is all our pleasure mixed with woe

First Line:
Ah me is all our pleasure mixed with woe
Last Line:
And braves the indignant flood and thunders over the field
Author:
Robert Bedingfield (Absolute)
DMI number:
22526

15. Above these thousand years

First Line:
Above these thousand years
Last Line:
Is an eternal truth
Author:
Archibald Pitcairn (Speculation)
DMI number:
4663

16. Accept dear miss these fine essays

First Line:
Accept dear miss these fine essays
Last Line:
And lead to eternal joys
DMI number:
36340

17. Adverbs denote and make appear

First Line:
Adverbs denote and make appear
Last Line:
And always answer no
DMI number:
36492

18. Ah tell me why deluded sex thus we

First Line:
Ah tell me why deluded sex thus we
Last Line:
Will owe our charms of wit of parts and poetry
DMI number:
43034

19. All monkies as the fable says

First Line:
All monkies as the fable says
Last Line:
To take from him the use of speech
DMI number:
37783

20. An inner room receives the humorous souls

First Line:
An inner room receives the humorous souls
Last Line:
To promise future health for present fees
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
5482

21. As on a board well poised boys sink and rise

First Line:
As on a board well poised boys sink and rise
Last Line:
Beware ye Westminsters of P-tt and P-tt
DMI number:
31359

22. Arra dear joy save all your faces

First Line:
Arra dear joy save all your faces
Last Line:
Ay no indeed I've done your servant
DMI number:
19990

23. As sage sowgelder roves the country round

First Line:
As sage sowgelder roves the country round
Last Line:
That here at leisure they may all forget
DMI number:
8082

24. As I walked along fair London town

First Line:
As I walked along fair London town
Last Line:
They have left all their friends to wear thyme and rue | Fa la la &c
DMI number:
11986

25. As I went forth to view the spring

First Line:
As I went forth to view the spring
Last Line:
For omnia vincit amor
DMI number:
1221

26. At length with vengeance bursts my raging vein

First Line:
At length with vengeance bursts my raging vein
Last Line:
And lost in transport beg to wake no more
Author:
Nicholas Amhurst (Absolute)
DMI number:
12000

27. Attend and I'll you a story that's new

First Line:
Attend and I'll you a story that's new
Last Line:
To traitors and villains confusion of face | Which nobody &c
DMI number:
11957

28. Behind the scenes sit mighty we

First Line:
Behind the scenes sit mighty we
Last Line:
All scabbed and old they in some hollow tree shall die
DMI number:
6953

29. Blessed sons of affluence meet for virtues friends

First Line:
Blessed sons of affluence meet for virtues friends
Last Line:
To fatten and refresh the plains below
DMI number:
28161

30. Bred up by parents' arbitrary rules

First Line:
Bred up by parents' arbitrary rules
Last Line:
True martyr to the cause rots stinks and dies
DMI number:
11161

31. Behold this awful dome of science full

First Line:
Behold this awful dome of science full
Last Line:
Except a regal hall or coronation day
DMI number:
28757

32. Believe me Will that they who have least sense

First Line:
Believe me Will that they who have least sense
Last Line:
Lies in the more or less degree of sense
DMI number:
3865

33. Believe me Will that those who have least sense

First Line:
Believe me Will that those who have least sense
Last Line:
Lies in the more or the less want of sense
DMI number:
6496

34. Can weave fine cobwebs fit for skull

First Line:
Can weave fine cobwebs fit for skull
Last Line:
When they throw out and miss the matter
Author:
Samuel Butler (Absolute)
DMI number:
5648

35. By nature savage till instructive art

First Line:
By nature savage till instructive art
Last Line:
And eager after knowledge wings her way
DMI number:
30417

36. By the blue taper's trembling light

First Line:
By the blue taper's trembling light
Last Line:
And mingle with the blaze of day
Author:
Thomas Parnell (Absolute)
DMI number:
21305

37. Bufo whose pride disdains to give attention

First Line:
Bufo whose pride disdains to give attention
Last Line:
A scholar is as great a fool as you
DMI number:
33354

38. Bufo whose pride disdains to give attention

First Line:
Bufo whose pride disdains to give attention
Last Line:
How just is thy antipathy to learning
DMI number:
35809

39. Busby forbear to chide the child

First Line:
Busby forbear to chide the child
Last Line:
To venture on the stilts of state
DMI number:
17800

40. By education nature is refined

First Line:
By education nature is refined
Last Line:
Of learning her power over all will rise
DMI number:
31183

41. Come philosophers come you that boast in your learning

First Line:
Come philosophers come you that boast in your learning
Last Line:
Whilst all speak in praise of the humorous rake | Your learning is little and little your knowledge | Come tope it about you old sots of the college
DMI number:
8921

42. Chloe your friend Pythagoras tis said

First Line:
Chloe your friend Pythagoras tis said
Last Line:
What Chloris wants is thrown away on you
DMI number:
22000

43. Conversing with your sprightly boys

First Line:
Conversing with your sprightly boys
Last Line:
But never give a blockhead sense
Author:
John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:
30510

44. Conversing with your sprightly boys

First Line:
Conversing with your sprightly boys
Last Line:
The blockhead had appeared an ass
Author:
John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:
23351

45. Could Horace poet critic wit

First Line:
Could Horace poet critic wit
Last Line:
Blessed with plain sense and sober reason
DMI number:
22181

46. Could I the gift of nature well display

First Line:
Could I the gift of nature well display
Last Line:
And charity ever dwell at Catherine Hall
DMI number:
3298

47. Conjunctions unite words together

First Line:
Conjunctions unite words together
Last Line:
Unhinges all their future joy
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Absolute)
DMI number:
36493

48. Conscious of guilt deserted by his friends

First Line:
Conscious of guilt deserted by his friends
Last Line:
That right or wrong you'll keep in him in his place
DMI number:
37769

49. Detested be the luckless hour

First Line:
Detested be the luckless hour
Last Line:
Send Prancer back to stamping frize
DMI number:
37761

50. E second vowel we espy

First Line:
E second vowel we espy
Last Line:
In music Ela Elami
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Speculation)
DMI number:
36511

51. First is the nominative case

First Line:
First is the nominative case
Last Line:
Tis vain to try to fret or fume
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Absolute)
DMI number:
36506

52. Feign would I kind and learned friend

First Line:
Feign would I kind and learned friend
Last Line:
Sung from the heart if sung in vain
DMI number:
33598

53. From a spoon without a handle

First Line:
From a spoon without a handle
Last Line:
And from college government | Libera me &c
DMI number:
5220

54. Free from the dull impertinence of chat

First Line:
Free from the dull impertinence of chat
Last Line:
Content if bright with borrowed rays to shine
DMI number:
32339

55. Fresh from the schools behold an Oxford smart

First Line:
Fresh from the schools behold an Oxford smart
Last Line:
Shall run like men and women upon two
Author:
George Colman (Absolute)
DMI number:
31732

56. For shame for shame Oxonians all

First Line:
For shame for shame Oxonians all
Last Line:
Should like to pick the bone
DMI number:
23312

57. From whence usurping man thy boasted claim

First Line:
From whence usurping man thy boasted claim
Last Line:
In choicer gifts but wit to use them well
DMI number:
43036

58. Go wondrous mount where science guides

First Line:
Go wondrous mount where science guides
Last Line:
Then drop into thyself and be a fool
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
35214

59. Go doting wretches and enquire

First Line:
Go doting wretches and enquire
Last Line:
Says Oxford and her Earl shall suffer
DMI number:
11972

60. Go go you vile bear

First Line:
Go go you vile bear
Last Line:
The four courts are not worth attending
DMI number:
37763

61. Gainst any man of sense

First Line:
Gainst any man of sense
Last Line:
Be best at night or noon
Author:
Archibald Pitcairn (Speculation)
DMI number:
4659

62. God prosper long our visitors

First Line:
God prosper long our visitors
Last Line:
What you've so well begun
DMI number:
37755

63. Great Pallas born of Jove's immortal brain

First Line:
Great Pallas born of Jove's immortal brain
Last Line:
Improved in arts with greater lustre reigns
DMI number:
2031

64. Good taste however exalted or depressed

First Line:
Good taste however exalted or depressed
Last Line:
The well bred nymph and upstarts haughty queen
DMI number:
28164

65. Grammar instructs us rightly to indite

First Line:
Grammar instructs us rightly to indite
Last Line:
Which here do follow in their sections
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Absolute)
DMI number:
36486

66. Hail ancient book most venerable code

First Line:
Hail ancient book most venerable code
Last Line:
And all her streams from thy deep fountain flow
Author:
Thomas Tickell (Absolute)
DMI number:
19869

67. Hail ancient book most venerable code

First Line:
Hail ancient book most venerable code
Last Line:
And at thy handle hang my crutches up
Author:
Thomas Tickell (Absolute)
DMI number:
16654

68. Good parents must endeavour all they can

First Line:
Good parents must endeavour all they can
Last Line:
To mend the youth it's better late than never
DMI number:
24973

69. He is the gender masculine

First Line:
He is the gender masculine
Last Line:
It made him smile and pleased his heart
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Absolute)
DMI number:
36498

70. He that intends to cultivate his parts

First Line:
He that intends to cultivate his parts
Last Line:
Will crown our age with pleasure and content
DMI number:
35448

71. Here lies a man who tamed wayward youth

First Line:
Here lies a man who tamed wayward youth
Last Line:
Priest of the muses well may named be
DMI number:
29986

72. How like you sir the splendor of the day

First Line:
How like you sir the splendor of the day
Last Line:
And education fix her empire here
Author:
Marius D'Assigny (Absolute)
DMI number:
29600

73. How like you sir the splendor of today

First Line:
How like you sir the splendor of today
Last Line:
And education fix her empire here
DMI number:
99

74. His beggarly cure when old barebone deserted

First Line:
His beggarly cure when old barebone deserted
Last Line:
Each swear through a plank and each slander his neighbour | derry down
DMI number:
37773

75. His builder harp when famed Amphion strung

First Line:
His builder harp when famed Amphion strung
Last Line:
Constrained to wonder where I wish to praise
DMI number:
1929

76. Hither as to an oracle I come

First Line:
Hither as to an oracle I come
Last Line:
To man and something more than man may grow
DMI number:
41854

77. Here terminations stand in view

First Line:
Here terminations stand in view
Last Line:
Such words that rhyme and what they mean
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Speculation)
DMI number:
36509

78. High on a hill's green bosom laid

First Line:
High on a hill's green bosom laid
Last Line:
And boasts an endless reign
Author:
William Julius Mickle (Absolute)
DMI number:
32540

79. How true the mimic forms appear

First Line:
How true the mimic forms appear
Last Line:
And then here fancy blushing paints the rest
DMI number:
36072

80. I address you my lord an Ecclesiae Primarius

First Line:
I address you my lord an Ecclesiae Primarius
Last Line:
But Murray's the man I would have at my head
DMI number:
37768

81. In that sweet isle where Venus keeps her court

First Line:
In that sweet isle where Venus keeps her court
Last Line:
And happy each at home enjoys his love
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
3931

82. In ancient times as bards indite

First Line:
In ancient times as bards indite
Last Line:
They hide their heads and hush their throats
Author:
Patrick Delany (Confident)
DMI number:
1133

83. In arts and arms the Prussian monarch reigns

First Line:
In arts and arms the Prussian monarch reigns
Last Line:
To whom Minerva's kind and greater Mars
DMI number:
6088

84. Imperial bird who wont to soar

First Line:
Imperial bird who wont to soar
Last Line:
Envelopes all around
Author:
Christopher Smart (Absolute)
DMI number:
22213

85. In a garden t'other day

First Line:
In a garden t'other day
Last Line:
When your arrows pierce his heart
DMI number:
3547

86. In beauty or wit

First Line:
In beauty or wit
Last Line:
Who have tasted and robbed the whole tree
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
15395

87. In learning's precepts spend thy utmost breath

First Line:
In learning's precepts spend thy utmost breath
Last Line:
Life without learning bears the stamp of death
Author:
Cato (Absolute)
DMI number:
6954

88. In days of yore tis said that oaken

First Line:
In days of yore tis said that oaken
Last Line:
In flames immediate to expire
DMI number:
37750

89. In eastern realms tis oft the weakest man

First Line:
In eastern realms tis oft the weakest man
Last Line:
Nor keep that workman thou hast turned away
DMI number:
35977

90. In former times when learning blessed our isle

First Line:
In former times when learning blessed our isle
Last Line:
And truth and justice seek their native skies
DMI number:
11140

91. Indulgent nature to each kind bestows

First Line:
Indulgent nature to each kind bestows
Last Line:
And bears the like antipathy to trees
Author:
Dr. Conyers (Confident)
DMI number:
12315

92. Inspired with joy we see the learned throng

First Line:
Inspired with joy we see the learned throng
Last Line:
And having felt our birch deserved your bays
DMI number:
35090

93. In vain the learned doctors rack their brains

First Line:
In vain the learned doctors rack their brains
Last Line:
Let Punch the beggar's beadle whip the rest
DMI number:
8092

94. Long on Golconda's shore a diamond lay

First Line:
Long on Golconda's shore a diamond lay
Last Line:
Rises with lustre polished and refined
DMI number:
32070

95. Look as a stately edifice raised high

First Line:
Look as a stately edifice raised high
Last Line:
Others will speak whilst thou with shame sets dumb
DMI number:
41891

96. Long did the sacred gown in vain entice

First Line:
Long did the sacred gown in vain entice
Last Line:
Not yet of age to stand her guardian sues
DMI number:
8050

97. Long had fair Venus and her son

First Line:
Long had fair Venus and her son
Last Line:
Fair Polly back to London
DMI number:
25253

98. Like shipwrecked wretches tossed from shore to shore

First Line:
Like shipwrecked wretches tossed from shore to shore
Last Line:
And tread ennobled the just paths to fame
DMI number:
3301

99. Love and tranquility

First Line:
Love and tranquility
Last Line:
Their Masters seldom are respected
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Speculation)
DMI number:
36524

100. Most worthy patron we

First Line:
Most worthy patron we
Last Line:
As Oliver's protector
Author:
Archibald Pitcairn (Speculation)
DMI number:
4661