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1.
And shall great Halifax resign to fate
First Line:
And shall great Halifax resign to fate
Last Line:
Or Newton die in falling worlds of fire
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1470
2.
As when the king of peace and lord of love
First Line:
As when the king of peace and lord of love
Last Line:
And ask the certain way to rise as high
Author:
George Sewell (Confident) & William Broome (Confident)
DMI number:
1474
3.
But now suppose we may one woman find
First Line:
But now suppose we may one woman find
Last Line:
To blame the sex and scandal all the rest
Author:
George Sewell (Absolute)
DMI number:
30456
4.
Condemn me not Galesia fair unknown
First Line:
Condemn me not Galesia fair unknown
Last Line:
Enough he's punished in his losing thee
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1472
5.
Conscience thou home-felt friend or innate foe
First Line:
Conscience thou home-felt friend or innate foe
Last Line:
And heaven is half obtained before we die
Author:
George Sewell (Speculation)
DMI number:
12001
6.
Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down
First Line:
Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down
Last Line:
But he who wrote the verse was Mat Prior
DMI number:
17866
7.
Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down
First Line:
Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down
Last Line:
But he who wrote the verses must be Prior
Author:
George Sewell (Speculation)
DMI number:
12500
8.
Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down
First Line:
Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down
Last Line:
But he who wrote the verses was Mat Prior
DMI number:
18816
9.
Feed cow herd feed thy oxen far away
First Line:
Feed cow herd feed thy oxen far away
Last Line:
Drive home the breathing statue with the herd
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1464
10.
Fair royal mourner hear the pious muse
First Line:
Fair royal mourner hear the pious muse
Last Line:
And faithful to his god in sad obedience bowed
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1471
11.
Go mighty prince and those great nations see
First Line:
Go mighty prince and those great nations see
Last Line:
To shine in peace or war and be again admired
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute) & George Sewell (Absolute)
DMI number:
1460
12.
Gallants without a length of formal speeches
First Line:
Gallants without a length of formal speeches
Last Line:
Have bit a widow cannot bite a beau
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1480
13.
In those dark caverns of the teeming earth
First Line:
In those dark caverns of the teeming earth
Last Line:
Fall innocent and meet us on our guard
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
11590
14.
In a hot fit I boasted I could bear
First Line:
In a hot fit I boasted I could bear
Last Line:
Yet know you anchor in a doubtful bay
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1477
15.
Is it summer wine produce
First Line:
Is it summer wine produce
Last Line:
Wine is never out of season
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1462
16.
Long had the tragic muse forgot to weep
First Line:
Long had the tragic muse forgot to weep
Last Line:
And place him nearest to his Phoebus seat
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1467
17.
Lord when thy fearful indignation burns
First Line:
Lord when thy fearful indignation burns
Last Line:
And in their sudden flight confess their shame
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1475
18.
If no love is ye gods what feel I so
First Line:
If no love is ye gods what feel I so
Last Line:
For heat of cold for cold of heat I die
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
11773
19.
If Oronooko in the drama shines
First Line:
If Oronooko in the drama shines
Last Line:
Can raise the poet and the player too
Author:
George Sewell (Speculation)
DMI number:
11768
20.
Let Britain now at last no more complain
First Line:
Let Britain now at last no more complain
Last Line:
And bard and heroes equally admire
Author:
George Sewell (Absolute)
DMI number:
15489
21.
Meanwhile a king they seek who might sustain
First Line:
Meanwhile a king they seek who might sustain
Last Line:
I in my fame eternally shall live
Author:
George Sewell (Speculation) & Captain Morrice (Speculation)
DMI number:
17447
22.
No critic's wit or censure can accuse
First Line:
No critic's wit or censure can accuse
Last Line:
And reaps the blessings of a power unseen
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1476
23.
Of bodies changed to other forms I sing
First Line:
Of bodies changed to other forms I sing
Last Line:
Shoots forth and gilds the rising dawn of day
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
17420
24.
O reputation dearer far than life
First Line:
O reputation dearer far than life
Last Line:
To its first purity and native sweetness
Author:
George Sewell (Absolute)
DMI number:
20618
25.
Oft for my king I drew my sword
First Line:
Oft for my king I drew my sword
Last Line:
And for this creed my graceship spare
Author:
George Sewell (Absolute)
DMI number:
35087
26.
Of trivial things I sing surprising scenes
First Line:
Of trivial things I sing surprising scenes
Last Line:
Its squeaking voice and accents not its own
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute) & George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
11583
27.
Pallas attentive heard the muses song
First Line:
Pallas attentive heard the muses song
Last Line:
Ploughed seas unknown and sought the golden fleece
Author:
John Gay (Confident) & George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
17435
28.
Once more great prince in shining arms appear
First Line:
Once more great prince in shining arms appear
Last Line:
That might become a Roman or a Gaul
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1469
29.
On what strange muses country are we thrown
First Line:
On what strange muses country are we thrown
Last Line:
From Scythia's frozen coast to Thule's isle
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
3152
30.
Shakespeare who gave our English stage its birth
First Line:
Shakespeare who gave our English stage its birth
Last Line:
Fresher in George's than Eliza's days
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
3153
31.
The Argonauts now cut the stormy deeps
First Line:
The Argonauts now cut the stormy deeps
Last Line:
To Cephalus' command the monarch gave
Author:
John Gay (Confident) & George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
17436
32.
Sure there's a fate in excellence too strong
First Line:
Sure there's a fate in excellence too strong
Last Line:
While Carteret ministers and George presides
DMI number:
36613
33.
Swayed by the vulgar tide forgive the wrong
First Line:
Swayed by the vulgar tide forgive the wrong
Last Line:
The wars you write the freedom you defend
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1481
34.
Tell me not Celia once did bless
First Line:
Tell me not Celia once did bless
Last Line:
A taster to our food
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
2362
35.
The night descends the sun resumes the skies
First Line:
The night descends the sun resumes the skies
Last Line:
Then adds a length of sigh to what he spoke
Author:
Mr. Dart (Confident) & George Sewell (Confident) & Francis Chute (Confident)
DMI number:
17437
36.
Then dire Pharsalia's plain all breathing blood
First Line:
Then dire Pharsalia's plain all breathing blood
Last Line:
They careless pass and leave disdainfully behind
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1466
37.
The sun's bright palace on high columns raised
First Line:
The sun's bright palace on high columns raised
Last Line:
And all the god discovered to her sight
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
17431
38.
These Cato's morals were and this the kind
First Line:
These Cato's morals were and this the kind
Last Line:
And quit the score between her gods and Rome
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1465
39.
There storied on the walls were to behold
First Line:
There storied on the walls were to behold
Last Line:
And in his arms the fleeting aether caught
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
11807
40.
This play I wonder how the thing could hold
First Line:
This play I wonder how the thing could hold
Last Line:
The world shall strike by land as well as sea
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1479
41.
Timocritus the bold the great the brave
First Line:
Timocritus the bold the great the brave
Last Line:
The cowards live their punishment is life
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1463
42.
We Cupid king whose arbitrary sway
First Line:
We Cupid king whose arbitrary sway
Last Line:
Thus written in the lusty month of May
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
11778
43.
Was not my part an odd one for the stage
First Line:
Was not my part an odd one for the stage
Last Line:
A woman's tailor not a woman's man
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
3154
44.
What crowns the fruitful marriage bed with joy
First Line:
What crowns the fruitful marriage bed with joy
Last Line:
And mirth and joy and peace sincere the heavenly banquet crowned
Author:
Samuel Cobb (Absolute) & William Diaper (Absolute) & Nicholas Rowe (Absolute) & George Sewell (Absolute)
DMI number:
37254
45.
What are at length the doubtful nations freed
First Line:
What are at length the doubtful nations freed
Last Line:
To British valour and to German truth
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1468
46.
When all the blandishments of life are gone
First Line:
When all the blandishments of life are gone
Last Line:
The coward creeps to death the brave lives on
DMI number:
12427
47.
When boys at Eton once a year
First Line:
When boys at Eton once a year
Last Line:
The time has been when he was great
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1461
48.
When her Britannia wept Eliza's doom
First Line:
When her Britannia wept Eliza's doom
Last Line:
While to her successor she pays the same
Author:
Mr. Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
2258
49.
While joys unnumbered all thy soul possess
First Line:
While joys unnumbered all thy soul possess
Last Line:
To see the mother's name succeed the bride's
Author:
George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:
1473
50.
Why Damon with the forward day
First Line:
Why Damon with the forward day
Last Line:
But rosemary will with thee go
Author:
George Sewell (Absolute)
DMI number:
24460
51.
Why Damon with the forward day
First Line:
Why Damon with the forward day
Last Line:
Thy evenings then will all be past
DMI number:
26906
52.
Ye sacred seats ye venerable urns
First Line:
Ye sacred seats ye venerable urns
Last Line:
Thy fate and want of thy recording muse
Author:
George Sewell (Absolute)
DMI number:
10588
53.
Wrapped in the pleasures of a country seat
First Line:
Wrapped in the pleasures of a country seat
Last Line:
The doctor gains it when too old at cat
DMI number:
36614
54.
A collection of original poems, translations and imitations [T99274]
Publication Date:
1714
ESTC number:
T99274
DMI number:
344
55.
A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
Publication Date:
1757
ESTC number:
T124651
DMI number:
852
56.
A miscellany of original poems, translations &c. [N10826] [ecco]
Publication Date:
1732
ESTC number:
N10826
DMI number:
91
57.
A new miscellany of original poems, translations and imitations [T71421]
Publication Date:
1720
ESTC number:
T71421
DMI number:
457
58.
A new miscellany of original poems, translations and imitations [T213947]
Publication Date:
1740
ESTC number:
T213947
DMI number:
1503
59.
Sacred miscellanies or divine poems [T77068]
Publication Date:
1713
ESTC number:
T77068
DMI number:
339
60.
Poems on several occasions [T75638] [ECCO]
Publication Date:
1767
ESTC number:
T75638
DMI number:
712
61.
Poems on several occasions [T75645]
Publication Date:
1742
ESTC number:
T75645
DMI number:
678
62.
Poems on several occasions [T75657]
Publication Date:
1754
ESTC number:
T75657
DMI number:
701
63.
Poems on several occasions. By the late Matthew Prior [3rd ed.] [T75656]
Publication Date:
1733
ESTC number:
T75656
DMI number:
548
64.
The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
Publication Date:
1756
ESTC number:
N51175
DMI number:
1629
65.
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books: a new translation by several hands [N22089] [Vol.1]
Publication Date:
1733
ESTC number:
N22089
DMI number:
659
66.
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books: a new translation by several hands [N22089] [Vol.2]
Publication Date:
1733
ESTC number:
N22089
DMI number:
660
67.
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books: a new translation by several hands [N41873] [Vol.1]
Publication Date:
1717
ESTC number:
N41873
DMI number:
680
68.
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books: a new translation by several hands [N41873] [vol.2]
Publication Date:
1717
ESTC number:
N41873
DMI number:
682
69.
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books: a new translation by several hands [T177809] [Vol.1]
Publication Date:
1726
ESTC number:
T177809
DMI number:
650
70.
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books: a new translation by several hands [T177809] [Vol.2]
Publication Date:
1726
ESTC number:
T177809
DMI number:
651
71.
Poems by the Earls of Roscommon and Dorset; The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckingham, &c. [vol. II] [BL]
Publication Date:
1756
ESTC number:
N/A
DMI number:
1485
72.
Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who flourishd in the reign of Henry the Eighth... With the poems of Sir Thomas Wiat, and others his Famous Contemporaries. [T68161]
Publication Date:
1717
ESTC number:
T68161
DMI number:
371
73.
A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 7] [T93622] [ecco]
Publication Date:
1781
ESTC number:
T93622
DMI number:
1302
74.
Additions to the works of Alexander Pope, Esq. [T5465] [ECCO]
Publication Date:
1776
ESTC number:
T5465
DMI number:
1255
75.
Additions to the works of Alexander Pope, Esq. [T5466] [ECCO]
Publication Date:
1776
ESTC number:
T5466
DMI number:
1242
76.
Miscellaneous works of his late excellency Matthew Prior [ECCO] [N35208]
Publication Date:
1740
ESTC number:
N35208
DMI number:
643
77.
Miscellaneous works of his late excellency Matthew Prior [ECCO] [T75653]
Publication Date:
1739
ESTC number:
T75653
DMI number:
632
78.
The Grove; or, a collection of original poems, translations, &c. [T35894] [ECCO]
Publication Date:
1721
ESTC number:
T35894
DMI number:
516
79.
Miscellanies in verse and prose, written by the right honourable Joseph Addison [T142873: Reissue of N20505, T142806 and T143098]
Publication Date:
1725
ESTC number:
T142873
DMI number:
517
80.
The Musical Miscellany [v. 5] [?not Suarez?] [T118842] [ecco]
Publication Date:
1731
ESTC number:
T118842
DMI number:
75
81.
The poetical magazine or the muses monthly companion [P6525] [ecco]
Publication Date:
1764
ESTC number:
P6525
DMI number:
941
82.
The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol II] [T85787] [ecco]
Publication Date:
1752
ESTC number:
T85787
DMI number:
845
83.
The works of Anacreon and Sappho [T85628] [ecco]
Publication Date:
1713
ESTC number:
T85628
DMI number:
1475
84.
The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire [Vol II] [T94653]
Publication Date:
1731
ESTC number:
T94653
DMI number:
73
85.
The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c [Vol II] [T95240]
Publication Date:
1739
ESTC number:
T95240
DMI number:
168
86.
The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. [Vol II] [T146730]
Publication Date:
1800
ESTC number:
T146730
DMI number:
234
87.
The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol II] [T152378]
Publication Date:
1721
ESTC number:
T152378
DMI number:
227
88.
The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol II] [T95241]
Publication Date:
1720
ESTC number:
T95241
DMI number:
1452
89.
The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c [Vol II] [T95242]
Publication Date:
1752
ESTC number:
T95242
DMI number:
230
90.
The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol II] [N35509]
Publication Date:
1756
ESTC number:
N35509
DMI number:
1184
91.
The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset: the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol II] [T119718]
Publication Date:
1777
ESTC number:
T119718
DMI number:
316
92.
Thoughts Moral and Divine [T6265] [ECCO]
Publication Date:
1761
ESTC number:
T6265
DMI number:
1194
93.
Thesaurus Dramaticus [II] [T134540] [ecco]
Publication Date:
1724
ESTC number:
T134540
DMI number:
726