The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- DMI number:
- 1430
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1702
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T136727
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW116738363
- Full Title:
- THE | ART | OF | [i]ENGLISH POETRY:[/i] | CONTAINING, | I. Rules for making Verses. | II. A Dictionary of Rhymes. | III. A Collection of the most Natural, | Agreeable, and Noble [i]Thoughts[/i], viz. Al- | lusions, Similes, Descriptions, and Chara- | cters, of Persons and Things; that are | to be found in the best [i]English Poets.[i] | [rule] | [i]By[/i] EDW. BYSSHE, [i]Gent.[/i] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [i]LONDON,[/i] | Printed for [i]R. Knaplock[/i] at the [i]Angel[/i] in St. [i]Paul's | Church-Yard; E. Castle[/i] next [i]Scotland-Yard-Gate[/i] by | [i]White-Hall;[/i] and [i]B. Tooke[/i] at the [i]Middle-Temple-| Gate[/i] in [i]Fleetstreet,[/i] 1702.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Munus & Officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo; | Unde parentur opes; quid alat, formetque Poetam: | Quid deceat, quid non: quo Virtus, quo ferat Error.[/i] | Horat.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of extracts/snippets
- Format:
- Octavo
- Comments:
- See also miscellany ID 1487 for entries M-Z. Duplicate poems: poem ID 39659 & 39660 appear twice in this miscellany, pp. 156, 328.
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (M-Z) [T136727]
- Publication Date:
- 1702
- ESTC No:
- T136727
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry [T119465] [vol 1] [*IR*]
- Publication Date:
- 1718
- ESTC No:
- T119465
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry [T119465] [vol 2] [*IR*]
- Publication Date:
- 1718
- ESTC No:
- T119465
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry [T130588] [*IR*]
- Publication Date:
- 1710
- ESTC No:
- T130588
- Volume:
- None
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry [T136726]
- Publication Date:
- 1705
- ESTC No:
- T136726
- Volume:
- None
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry [T137025] [vol 1] [*IR*]
- Publication Date:
- 1714
- ESTC No:
- T137025
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry [T137025] [vol 2] [*IR*]
- Publication Date:
- 1714
- ESTC No:
- T137025
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry [T137144] [*IR*]
- Publication Date:
- 1708
- ESTC No:
- T137144
- Volume:
- None
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Edward Bysshe
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Benjamin Tooke
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for R. Knaplock at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard; E. Castle next Scotland-Yard-Gate by White-Hall; and B. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet'
- Publisher:
- Edward Castle
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for R. Knaplock at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard; E. Castle next Scotland-Yard-Gate by White-Hall; and B. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet'
- Publisher:
- Robert Knaplock
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for R. Knaplock at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard; E. Castle next Scotland-Yard-Gate by White-Hall; and B. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet'
- First Line:
- It was not kind
- Page No:
- p.1
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- The tedious hours move heavily away
- Page No:
- p.1
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- While in divine Panthea's charming eyes
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- For thee the bubbling spring appeared to mourn
- Page No:
- p.1
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I mourn in absence love's eternal night
- Page No:
- p.1
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Love reckons hours for months and days for years
- Page No:
- p.1
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Winds murmured through the leaves your short delay
- Page No:
- p.1
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Aegeon when with heaven he strove
- Page No:
- p.2
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Mount Etna thence we spy
- Page No:
- p.2
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When things go ill each fool presumes to advise
- Page No:
- p.2
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The golden age was first when man yet new
- Page No:
- p.3
- Poem Title:
- The Four Ages of the World. Golden Age
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here pressed Enceladus with mighty loads
- Page No:
- p.3
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cr. Lucr.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- But when good Saturn banished from above
- Page No:
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- Silver Age.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To this came next in course the brazen age
- Page No:
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- Brazen Age.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hard steel succeeded then
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- Iron Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- She still delights in war and human woes
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- Alecto.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The goats with strutting dugs shall homeward speed
- Page No:
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- Golden Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ambition is like love impatient
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Ambition is a lust that's never quenched
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Ambition is at distance
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Ambition's never safe till power be past
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- But wild ambition loves to slide not stand
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- One world sufficed not Alexander's mind
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Yet true renown is still with virtue joined
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then Gabriel | Bodies and clothes himself with thickened air
- Page No:
- pp.6-7
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Down thither prone in flight
- Page No:
- p.7
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- And storms of terror threatened in his looks
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- His troubled looks reveal his inward wound
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- At this the knight grew high in wrath
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- It was a question whether he
- Page No:
- p.8-9
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Talgol had long suppressed
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Anger like madness is appeased by rest
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He swells with wrath he makes outrageous moan
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus in Battalia march embodied ants
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With fiery eyes and with contracted brows
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tis not antiquity nor author
- Page No:
- p.9
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Like fair Apollo when he leaves the frost
- Page No:
- p.9
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Me Claros Delphos Tenedos obey
- Page No:
- p.9
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I do remember an apothecary
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- His shop the gazing vulgar's eyes employs
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- The broken cloud pours out pure floods of light
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- The heavens around with acclamations rung
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Behold from far a breaking cloud appears
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Such a noise arose
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- As the sound of waters deep
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The rocks and woods return them loud acclaim
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- A fluttering dove to the mast's top they tie
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Shouts from the favouring multitude arise
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The shouting cries
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Their swords their armour and their eyes shot flame
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- He sheathed his limbs in arms a tempered mass
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Refulgent arms appear
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The head of Argus as with stars the skies
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Arrows aloft in feathered tempests fly
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Some march before their troops in dreadful pride
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- By far more slow
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Rent like a mountain ash that dared the winds
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Sounded at once the bow and swiftly flies
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- His curdling blood forgot to glide
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- They'll search a planet's house to know
- Page No:
- pp.14-16
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Not the last sounding could surprise me more
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- She thrice essayed to speak her accents hung
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- An inner room receives the numerous shoals
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- Professor in Astrology and Physick.
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- The evening of the year
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Still as night or summer noontide air
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Deep was the cave and downward as it went
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus like a sailor by a tempest hurled
- Page No:
- pp.17-18
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Lucr
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When yellow autumn weighs
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Whose brawny back supports the skies
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- If tender infants who imprisoned stay
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- She flies the town and mixing with a throng
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Why should dull law rule nature who first made
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- He's a bastard got in a fit of nature
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- O the brave din the noble clank of arms
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- All the plain | Covered with thick embattled squadrons bright
- Page No:
- pp.19-22
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Beauty is seldom fortunate when great
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Beauty like ice our footing does betray
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The cause of love can never be assigned
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- For beauty like white powder makes no noise
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cleav.
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Beauty with a bloodless conquest finds
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wal.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Beauty thou wild fantastic ape
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Beauty thou art a fair but fading flower
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Her galley down the silver Cydnos rowed
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- Cleopatra in her Gally
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Merab the first Michal the younger named
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Is she not as harmless as the turtles of the woods
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Oh she has beauty might enslave
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Behold her stretched upon a flowery bank
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Her eyes have power beyond Thessalian charms
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Mark her majestic fabric she's a temple
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Belinda's sparkling wit and eyes
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dors.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Those heavenly attracts of yours your eyes
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Not purple violets in the early spring
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- With gay and vigorous youth his eyes are crowned
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- The Trojan chief appeared in open sight
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Through his youthful face
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- The bees have common cities of their own
- Page No:
- pp.26-29
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- There stands a rock dashed with the breaking wave
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Prone to revenge the bees a wrathful race
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The verdant walk their charming aspect lose
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- All dark and comfortless
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Tate. K. Lear.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- First Line:
- O first created beam and thou great word
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- O happiness of blindness now no beauty
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- Hail holy light offspring of heaven first born
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- In rising blushes still fresh beauties rose
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Add.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Such lovely stains the face of heaven adorn
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Old.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- A crimson blush her beauteous face overspread
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- See my Palmyra comes the frighted blood
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Forth from the thickets rushed another boar
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- So when fierce dogs and clamorous swains surround
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- My arms a noble victory never gained
- Page No:
- pp.33-34
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- As a savage boar on mountains bred
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- His eyeballs glare with fire suffused with blood
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Make me a bowl a mighty bowl
- Page No:
- pp.34-36
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Oldh.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- A sylvan lodge that like Pomona's arbour smiled
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- She said and from her quiver chose with speed
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- See gentle brooks how quietly they glide
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus often at the temple stairs we've seen
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Dogs with their tongues their wounds do heal
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- With what rich globes did her soft bosom swell
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- At first both parties in reproaches jar
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Tate Juv.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- First Line:
- The yielding marble of her snowy breast
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Excellent Brutus of all human race
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- So when a generous bull for clowns delight
- Page No:
- pp.38-39
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Thus a strong bull stands threatening glorious war
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- As when two bulls for their fair female fight
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So fares the bull in his loved female's sight
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A wight | With gauntlet blue and bases white
- Page No:
- pp.39-40
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Business which dares the joys of kings invade
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The day was made
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- If there be man ye gods I ought to hate
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Thou changeling thou bewitched with noise and show
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- We often see against some storm
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- What in this life which soon must end
- Page No:
- pp.40-41
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Care that in cloisters only seals her eyes
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dav.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Calm as deep rivers in still evenings roll
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- The clouds dispel the winds their breath restrain
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The tempest is overblown the skies are clear
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In his den they found
- Page No:
- pp.41-42
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Like cloud born centaurs from the mountain's height
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Nor could thy form o Cyllarus foreslow
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- The Centaur Cyllarus.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So when with crackling flames a cauldron fries
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The cloud begotten race half men half beast
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- For as the pope that keeps the gate
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Before their eyes in sudden view appear
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The womb of nature and perhaps her grave
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Unreal vast unbounded deep
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- And now the goddess with her charge descends
- Page No:
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Order a banished rebel flies the place
- Page No:
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- As he professed
- Page No:
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- The wary fiend | Stood on the brink of hell and looked awhile
- Page No:
- pp.43-45
- Poem Title:
- Satan's Passage thro' Chaos.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Behold a charnel house
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Bold Ericthonius was the first who joined
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Upon the gloomy banks of Acheron
- Page No:
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- For the dull world most honour pay to those
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- There with like haste to several ways they run
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- Doubtless the pleasure is as great
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- An honest man may take a knave's advice
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Behold a cliff whose high and bending head
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Within this homestead lived without a peer
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Hung be the heavens with black yield day to night
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- He had been long towards mathematics
- Page No:
- pp.48-50
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Portending blood like blazing star
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Compassion proper to mankind appears
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Tate Juv.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- First Line:
- Threatening comets when by night they rise
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Nature has made man's breast no windows
- Page No:
- pp.50-51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Severe decrees may keep our tongues in awe
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Lead me where my own thoughts themselves may lose me
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Constant as courage to the brave in battle
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- My ugly guilt flies in my conscious face
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Conscience that of all physick works the last
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Conscience the foolish pride of doing well
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oh the cursed fate of all conspiracies
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The conscience is the test of every mind
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Pers.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- There's no such thing as constancy we call
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The world's a scene of changes and to be
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Content alone can all their wrongs redress
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Tis equal if our fortunes should augment
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- A lump of senseless clay the leavings of a soul
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- All pale he lies and looks a lovely flower
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As when a sudden storm of hail and rain
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Content is wealth the riches of the mind
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The bearded product of the golden year
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- An old dull sot who had told the clock
- Page No:
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Hail old patrician trees so great and good
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Oh let me in the country range
- Page No:
- p.55
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Brown.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Happy the man whom bounteous gods allow
- Page No:
- pp.55-57
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl. Hor.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Ah prince hadst thou but known the joys which dwell
- Page No:
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Row.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- Oh happy if he knew his happy state
- Page No:
- pp.57-60
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- How happy is the harmless country maid
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roscom.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- In Easter term | My young master's worship comes to town
- Page No:
- pp.61-62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- A clownish mien a voice with rustic sound
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Mere courage is to madness near allied
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Farewell court | Where vice not only has usurped the place
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- Then Hudibras | Turned pale as ashes or a clout
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- The court's a golden but a fatal circle
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Bertram has been taught the art of courts
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The greatest proof of courage we can give
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Virtue must be thrown off tis a coarse garment
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- God like his courage seemed whom nor delight
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Let fear upon the prosperous hearts take hold
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- How.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- As cheats to play with those still aim
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- The good we act the ill that we endure
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- I saw when at his word this formless mass
- Page No:
- pp.63-64
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The mother cow must wear a lowering look
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- They sung how God spoke out the world's vast ball
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Let there be light said god and forthwith light
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- Light.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- So high as heaved the tumid hills so low
- Page No:
- pp.64-65
- Poem Title:
- Sea and Rivers.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The earth was formed but in the womb as yet
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- Dry Land.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Then god made | The firmament expanse of liquid pure
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- Firmament.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Then of celestial bodies first the sun
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- Sun, Moon, and Stars.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Then the earth | Desert and bare unsightly unadorned
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- Herbs, and Trees.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Forthwith the sounds and seas each creek and bay
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- Fish.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Meanwhile the tepid caves and fens and shores
- Page No:
- pp.66-67
- Poem Title:
- Birds.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The grassy clods now calved no half appeared
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- Beasts.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- At once came forth whatever creeps the ground
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- Creeping Things.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- There wanted yet the master work the end
- Page No:
- pp.68-69
- Poem Title:
- Men.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The cause and spring of motion from above
- Page No:
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- Men.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The overthrow | Crushing to dust pounded the crowd below
- Page No:
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O curse of marriage
- Page No:
- pp.70-71
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- As ovation was allowed
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- First from the frighted court the yell began
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The house is filled with loud laments and cries
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He deals in destiny's dark counsels
- Page No:
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Inquisitive as jealous cuckolds grow
- Page No:
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- I curse thee not
- Page No:
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Hear me just heavens
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Custom that does still dispense
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Ill customs by degrees to habits rise
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ill habits gather by unseen degrees
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Sacred to Vulcan's name an isle does lie
- Page No:
- pp.72-73
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Darkness thou first kind parent of us all
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Yald.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- Even hell gaped horrible
- Page No:
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Let darkness to be felt
- Page No:
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Darkness which fairest nymphs disarms
- Page No:
- pp.74-75
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Oh she does teach the torches to burn bright
- Page No:
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Many are the shapes
- Page No:
- pp.75-76
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Death's a black veil covering a beauteous face
- Page No:
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I wish to die yet dare not death endure
- Page No:
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Though we each day with cost repair
- Page No:
- p.76
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw. Hor.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- The thought of death to one near death is dreadful
- Page No:
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Death shuns the naked throat and proffered breast
- Page No:
- p.76
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What makes all this but Jupiter the king
- Page No:
- p.76
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Death is not dreadful to a mind resolved
- Page No:
- p.77
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Death only can be dreadful to the bad
- Page No:
- p.77
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- From death we rose to life tis but the same
- Page No:
- pp.77-78
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oh that I less could fear to lose this being
- Page No:
- p.77
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When the sun sets shadows that showed at noon
- Page No:
- p.77
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The gout the stone like martyrs we endure
- Page No:
- p.78
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Ston.
- Attributed To:
- William Stonestreet
- First Line:
- What has this bugbear death to frighten man
- Page No:
- pp.78-81
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Lucr.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In those cold climates where the sun appears
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- Temple of Death
- Attribution:
- Norm.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- Groveling in death he murmured on the ground
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- There life gave way and the last rosy breath
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Row.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- The lingering soul the unwelcome doom receives
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Staff.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Stafford
- First Line:
- He fell and deadly pale
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Dying her opened hand forsakes the reins
- Page No:
- pp.82-83
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He staggers round his eyeballs roll in death
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thrice Dido tried to raise her drooping head
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Why love renounced me in my mother's womb
- Page No:
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- His livid eyes retreated from the day
- Page No:
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Of no distemper of no blast he died
- Page No:
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- Dying of Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- This was his last for death came on amain
- Page No:
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- His back or rather burthen showed
- Page No:
- p.84
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Nature herself start back when thou wert born
- Page No:
- p.84
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Under heading 'Deformity'.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus all below whether by nature's curse
- Page No:
- p.84
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Time sensibly all things impairs
- Page No:
- p.85
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Rosc. Hor.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Meanwhile the south wind rose and with black wings
- Page No:
- p.85
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The expanded waters gather on the plain
- Page No:
- pp.85-86
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- We when our fate can be no worse
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Despair of life the means of living shows
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He raved with all the madness of despair
- Page No:
- pp.86-87
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Despair whose torment no men sure
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- I am here and thus the shades of night around me
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Let us embrace and from this very moment
- Page No:
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Beneath this gloomy shade
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Devotion that oft binds the almighty's arms
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Devotion in distress
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The graceful goddess was arrayed in green
- Page No:
- pp.88-89
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Nigh the recess of chaos and dull night
- Page No:
- pp.89-90
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Disdain has swelled him up and choked his breath
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Disdainfully she looked then turning round
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O goddess haunter of the woodland green
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Still to weep and still complain
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tis strange how some men's tempers suit
- Page No:
- pp.90-91
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Why I can smile and murder while I smile
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Disputants like rams and bulls
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Now we must show a masterpeice indeed
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Thou shalt not break yet heart nor shall she know
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Unhurt untouched did I complain
- Page No:
- pp.91-92
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Oh how this tyrant doubt torments my breast
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Dissensions like small streams are first begun
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- As when a dolphin sports upon the tide
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Doubt's the worst tyrant of a generous mind
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- This way and that he turns his anxious mind
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- For various thoughts began to bustle
- Page No:
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Are from repletion and complexion bred
- Page No:
- pp.93-94
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As when a dove her rocky hold forsakes
- Page No:
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes
- Page No:
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Crown high the goblets with a cheerful draught
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Pers.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When heavy sleep has closed the sight
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Fill the bowl with rosy wine
- Page No:
- pp.94-95
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl. Anac.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Here's to thee Dick this whining love despise
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- He crowned a bowl unbid
- Page No:
- pp.95-96
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Underneath this myrtle shade
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl. Anac.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Is it the trumpet and the drum
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Now at the time and in the appointed place
- Page No:
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In the fiery tract above
- Page No:
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So stoops the yellow eagle from on high
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- [no title[
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Them to a dungeon's depth I sent both bound
- Page No:
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus on some silver swan or timorous hare
- Page No:
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Earth felt the wound and nature from her seat
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Earthquakes which are convulsions of the ground
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So the pent vapours with a rumbling sound
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tired with the rough denials of my prayer
- Page No:
- pp.98-99
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- He forced the valleys to repeat
- Page No:
- p.99
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Children like tender oziers take the bow
- Page No:
- p.99
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Strong from the cradle of a sturdy brood
- Page No:
- pp.99-100
- Poem Title:
- Souldierly Education
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When thy moist clay is pliant to command
- Page No:
- p.99
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Pers.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Is not the elder
- Page No:
- p.100
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Row.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- For this eternal world is said of old
- Page No:
- p.100
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Wherever he sneaks heaven how the listening throng
- Page No:
- p.101
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Under heading 'Eloquence'.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- His tongue | Dropped manna and could make the worse appear
- Page No:
- pp.101-102
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The verdant fields with those of heaven my vie
- Page No:
- p.101
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- But here bright eloquence does always smile
- Page No:
- p.102
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Norm.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- Nectar divine flowed from his heavenly tongue
- Page No:
- p.102
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oh my Jocasta tis for this the wet
- Page No:
- p.102
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Oedip.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The goddess straight her arms of snowy hue
- Page No:
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then like some wealthy island thou shalt lie
- Page No:
- p.102
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- For what do lovers when they're fast
- Page No:
- p.103
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- There's no true joy in such unwieldy fortune
- Page No:
- pp.103-104
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Hast thou not seen my morning chambers filled
- Page No:
- p.103
- Poem Title:
- Roman Emperour.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When empire in its childhood first appears
- Page No:
- p.103
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oh that I had been born some happy swain
- Page No:
- p.104
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Emperor why that's the name of victory
- Page No:
- p.104
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I saw them kindle to desire
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- Celia was coy and hard to win
- Page No:
- pp.105-106
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Phillis has a gentle heart
- Page No:
- p.105
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye gods the raptures of that night
- Page No:
- p.105
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis with this rage the mother lion stung
- Page No:
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Once in a season beasts too taste of love
- Page No:
- p.107
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- I speak I know not what
- Page No:
- p.108
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Love's powers too great to be withstood
- Page No:
- p.108
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Make haste to bed
- Page No:
- p.108
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The thunderer who without the female bed
- Page No:
- p.108
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- When souls mix tis a happiness
- Page No:
- p.108
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Oh with what soft devotion in her eyes
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Unhappy mortals whose sublimest joy
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- I hate fruition now tis past
- Page No:
- pp.109-110
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Old.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- How dear how sweet his first embraces were
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Let me not live but thou'rt all enjoyment
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oh how I flew into your arms
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- There's no satiety of love in thee
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- And full fruition will but raise desire
- Page No:
- p.110
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- And why this niceness to that pleasure shown
- Page No:
- p.110
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He comes behold the god thus while she said
- Page No:
- pp.110-111
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Great Bullingbroke
- Page No:
- pp.111-112
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Something I'd unfold
- Page No:
- p.111
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Your glorious father my victorious lord
- Page No:
- p.112
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Beneath the gloomy covert of an yew
- Page No:
- pp.112-113
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Eternity no parent does admit
- Page No:
- p.113
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Aside he turned
- Page No:
- p.113
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Envy at last crawls forth from that dire throng
- Page No:
- p.113
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- As when from mountain tops the dusky clouds
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The gilded planet of the day
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Now came still evening on and twilight grey
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The sun | Declined was hasting now with prone career
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- And see yon sunny hill the shade extends
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Night rushes down and headlong drives the day
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Pleasure forsook his earliest infancy
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- See from afar the fields no longer smoke
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When the low sun is sinking on the main
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Sixty years have spread
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cree.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- The confident of age the youth's scorned guide
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dav.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Thus did his fury rise
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Example is a living law whose sway
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sedl.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- First Line:
- Quoth Hudibras the case is clear
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Who knows how eloquent these eyes may prove
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Val.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Best guide thou opens wisdom's way
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Round he throws his baleful eyes
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Crowned with charms
- Page No:
- p.115.91
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Fair as the face of nature did appear
- Page No:
- pp.115-116
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He stared and rolled his haggard eyes around
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then only hear her eyes
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I fright the maidens of the villages
- Page No:
- pp.116-117
- Poem Title:
- Robin Goodfellow.
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- They dance their ringlets to the whistling winds
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- As fair as winter stars or summer setting suns
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Like fairy elves
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Fairer to be seen
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Form joined with virtue is a sight too rare
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Less fair are orchards in their autumn pride
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- In days of old when Arthur filled the throne
- Page No:
- pp.117-118
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Castalio o how often has he sworn
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- He hates he loaths the beauties that he has enjoyed
- Page No:
- pp.118-119
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- She has a tongue that can undo the world
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- The falcon from above
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- There was a time
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Last night he flew not with a lover's haste
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What have I done ye powers what have I done
- Page No:
- pp.119-120
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Drive me o drive me from that traitor man
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Oh my hard fate why did I trust her ever
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Ingrateful woman | Who followed me but as the swallow summer
- Page No:
- pp.120-121
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ever note Lucilius
- Page No:
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Fame the great ill from small beginnings grow
- Page No:
- pp.121-122
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Two two such | Oh there's no farther name two such to me
- Page No:
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- There is a tall long sided dame
- Page No:
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- While fame is young too weak to fly away
- Page No:
- pp.122-123
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Norm.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- Full in the midst of this created space
- Page No:
- pp.123-124
- Poem Title:
- Palace of Fame.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- And with what rare inventions do we strive
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Famine so fierce that what's denied man's use
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He daily dies hours and moments
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- This famine has a sharp and meagre face
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When reason sleeps our mimic fancy wakes
- Page No:
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Flavia the least and slightest toy
- Page No:
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Atter.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Atterbury
- First Line:
- There is a place which man most high does rear
- Page No:
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- However tis well that while mankind
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Let thy great deeds force fate to change her mind
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Man makes his fate according to his mind
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The power that ministers to god's decrees
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The priesthood grossly cheat us with freewill
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- An unseen hand makes all our moves
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Tis our own wisdom moulds our state
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Gods would you be adored for being good
- Page No:
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Be juster heaven such virtue punished thus
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Heaven has to all allotted soon or late
- Page No:
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus with short plumets heavens deep will we sound
- Page No:
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tell me why good heaven
- Page No:
- p.128
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Eternal deities
- Page No:
- p.128
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Good heavens why gave you me a monarch's soul
- Page No:
- p.128
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ye cruel powers
- Page No:
- p.128
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A deadly fear over all his vitals reigns
- Page No:
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Aghast he waked and starting from his bed
- Page No:
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- But why alas do mortal men in vain
- Page No:
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- His knocking knees are bent beneath the load
- Page No:
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The pale assistants on each other stared
- Page No:
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- At thy dread anger the fixed world shall shake
- Page No:
- pp.129-130
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Terror froze up his hair and on his face
- Page No:
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Who would believe what strange bugbears
- Page No:
- pp.130-131
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- The silver moon with terror paler grew
- Page No:
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- With that with his long tail he lashed his breast
- Page No:
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Deformed destruction and wild horrow ride
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Into the waves some their pale bodies throw
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Vast sheets of flame and pitchy clouds arise
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Tossed by a whirlwind of tempestuous fire
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Den.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- Now they begin the tragic play
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Once Jove from Ida did both hosts survey
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- The burning ships the banished sun supply
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Give me flattery
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- As the elm which of its arms the axe bereaves
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Den.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- Moving they fight with oars and forky prows
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Disguised in all the masks of night
- Page No:
- p.133
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- There like a statue thou hast stood besieged
- Page No:
- p.133
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Within the chambers of the globe they spy
- Page No:
- p.134
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Not with so fierce a rage the foaming flood
- Page No:
- p.134
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The fruitful Nile
- Page No:
- p.134
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- These flowers last but for a little space
- Page No:
- pp.134-135
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus deluges descending on the plains
- Page No:
- p.134
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- She would hang on him
- Page No:
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Thick damps and lazy fogs arise
- Page No:
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Fools are known by looking wise
- Page No:
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Fortune takes care that fools should still be seen
- Page No:
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Oh she dotes on him
- Page No:
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- He was a fool through choice not want of wit
- Page No:
- pp.135-136
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Fonder than mothers to their firstborn joys
- Page No:
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In struggling with misfortunes
- Page No:
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- What though the field be lost
- Page No:
- p.136
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- But thou secure of soul unbent with woes
- Page No:
- p.136
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Endure and conquer Jove will soon dispose
- Page No:
- p.136
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- But Hudibras who scorned to stoop
- Page No:
- p.137
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Fortune made up of toys and impudence
- Page No:
- pp.137-138
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Buck.
- Attributed To:
- George Villiers
- First Line:
- So though less worthy stones are drowned in night
- Page No:
- p.137
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Fortune that with malicious joy
- Page No:
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Whose fortune is not fitted to his will
- Page No:
- pp.138-139
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Staff. Hor.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Stafford
- First Line:
- Ay me what perils do environ
- Page No:
- pp.139-140
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Fortune a goddess is to fools alone
- Page No:
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. jun.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Fortune came smiling to my youth and wooed it
- Page No:
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Good fortune that comes seldom comes more welcome
- Page No:
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O mortals blind in fate who never know
- Page No:
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Pleasure has been the business of my life
- Page No:
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- She for her pleasure can her fool advance
- Page No:
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Events are doubtful which on battles wait
- Page No:
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Fate's dark recesses we can never find
- Page No:
- pp.140-141
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I am not made a shallow forded stream
- Page No:
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Nature meant me
- Page No:
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tis better not to be than to be unhappy
- Page No:
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Why was I framed with this plain honest heart
- Page No:
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Freedom the first delight of human kind
- Page No:
- p.141
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I had a friend that loved me
- Page No:
- pp.141-142
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Freedom with virtue takes her seat
- Page No:
- p.141
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- The friends thou hast and their adoption tried
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Friendship of itself a holy tie
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- No fate my vowed affection shall divide
- Page No:
- pp.142-143
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Friendship.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then Theseus joined with bold Perithous came
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tis not indeed my talent to engage
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Friendship.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Pers.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- There have been fewer friends on earth than kings
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- They both were servants they both princes were
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- All these wrongs
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- As when two black clouds
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Mark my Sebastian how that sullen frown
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Meanwhile the Trojan troops with weeping eyes
- Page No:
- pp.143-144.
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Swift rivers are with sudden ice constrained
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With hostile frown and visage all inflamed
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- To be or not to be that is the question
- Page No:
- pp.144-145
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Deep in the dismal regions void of light
- Page No:
- p.144
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Distrust and darkness of a future state
- Page No:
- p.144
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Divines but peep on undiscovered worlds
- Page No:
- pp.145-146
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In whatsoever character
- Page No:
- p.145
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Consider former ages past and gone
- Page No:
- pp.146-147
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Lucri
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Think timely think on the last dreadful day
- Page No:
- p.146
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then whither went his soul let such relate
- Page No:
- p.147
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now did I not so near my labour's end
- Page No:
- pp.148-149
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O blessed shades o gentle cool retreat
- Page No:
- pp.149-150
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- He threw | Two ponderous gauntlets down in open view
- Page No:
- pp.150-151
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- That which her slender waist confined
- Page No:
- pp.151-152
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Gold yellow glittering precious gold
- Page No:
- p.152
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Gold makes a patrician of a slave
- Page No:
- p.152
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- For love in all his amorous battels
- Page No:
- p.152
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Virtue now nor noble blood
- Page No:
- p.152
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Greatness thou gaudy torment of our souls
- Page No:
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- How are we bandied up and down by fate
- Page No:
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Greatness most envied when least understood
- Page No:
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O sacred hunger of pernicious gold
- Page No:
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When I made | This gold I made a greater god than Jove
- Page No:
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Happy insect what can be
- Page No:
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Farewell a long farewell to all my greatness
- Page No:
- p.154
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Greatness we owe to fortune or to fate
- Page No:
- p.154
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- I now begin to loath all human greatness
- Page No:
- p.154
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Upon the slippery tops of human state
- Page No:
- p.154
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Of comfort no man speak
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Tis not alone my inky cloak
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- It is the wretch's comfort still to have
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Congr.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- I am dumb as solemn sorrow ought to be
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Oh let no other accents fill the air
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Alas I have no words to tell my grief
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I have been in such a dismal place
- Page No:
- pp.155-156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He sat upon his rump
- Page No:
- p.156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- I found her on the floor
- Page No:
- p.156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Twould raise your pity but to see the tears
- Page No:
- p.156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- His drooping head was rested on his hand
- Page No:
- p.156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In sorrow drowned
- Page No:
- p.156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oh if kind heaven had been so much my friend
- Page No:
- p.157
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Rosc.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Dear solitary groves where peace does dwell
- Page No:
- p.157
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- A gypsie Jewess whispers in your ear
- Page No:
- p.157
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- And now my muse what most delights her sees
- Page No:
- p.157
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- In a close lane as I pursued my journey
- Page No:
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- His golden hair did on his shoulders shine
- Page No:
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- His hyacinthine locks
- Page No:
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Adown her shoulders fell her length of hair
- Page No:
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The pattering hail comes pouring on the main
- Page No:
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In wishing nothing we enjoy still most
- Page No:
- p.159
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- My locks the plenteous harvest of my head
- Page No:
- p.159
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- No happiness can be where is no rest
- Page No:
- p.159
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The hare in pastures or in plains is found
- Page No:
- p.159
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- We barbarously call those blessed
- Page No:
- p.159
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Step.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Here the opening land invites with outstretched arms
- Page No:
- p.160
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Monsters more fierce offended heaven never sent
- Page No:
- p.160
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Within a long recess their lies a bay
- Page No:
- p.160
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The salt of life which does to all a relish give
- Page No:
- p.160
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- What did ever heiress yet
- Page No:
- p.161
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Hell heard the unsufferable noise hell saw
- Page No:
- pp.161-162
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Him the almighty power
- Page No:
- p.161
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- But down like lightning with him struck he came
- Page No:
- p.161
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Here Lucifer the mighty captive reigns
- Page No:
- p.161
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Nine times the space that measures day and night
- Page No:
- pp.162-165
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Under heading 'Hell'.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Obscure they went though dreary shades that led
- Page No:
- pp.165-167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O honour frail as life thy fellow flower
- Page No:
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- D'av.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Honour is like a widow won
- Page No:
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Honour a raging fit of virtue in the soul
- Page No:
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Honour in the breech is lodged
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Honour is like that glassy bubble
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- That man is sure to lose
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Honour the error and the cheat
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- Have I overcome all real foes
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- This honour is the veriest mountebank
- Page No:
- p.169
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Not all the threats or favours of a crown
- Page No:
- pp.169-170
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hal.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Hope of all ills that men endure
- Page No:
- p.170
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Hope whose weak being ruined is
- Page No:
- p.170-171
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Our hopes like towering falcons aim
- Page No:
- p.171
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Hope with a goodly prospect feeds the eye
- Page No:
- p.171
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Pleased with the martial noise he snuffs the air
- Page No:
- p.172
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Freed from the keepers thus with broken reins
- Page No:
- p.172
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He sought the coursers of the Thracian race
- Page No:
- pp.172-173
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In such a shape grim Saturn did restrain
- Page No:
- p.172
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Upright he walks on patterns firm and straight
- Page No:
- p.172
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The signal given by the shrill trumpets sound
- Page No:
- pp.173-174
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- The beast was sturdy large and tall
- Page No:
- p.173
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- White were his fetlocks and his feet before
- Page No:
- p.173
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I was with Hercules and Cadmus once
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- My hounds shall make the welkin answer them
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- When through the woods we chased the foaming boar
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- The impatient greyhound slipped from far
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With well breathed beagles you surround the wood
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The unexpected sound
- Page No:
- pp.176-177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- The youthful train
- Page No:
- p.176
- Poem Title:
- Chace of a Stag.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As when two adverse hurricanes arise
- Page No:
- pp.177-178
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- By chase our long-lived fathers earned their food
- Page No:
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What though some fits of small contest
- Page No:
- pp.178-179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- We think it merit blindly to believe
- Page No:
- p.178
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What can be sweeter than our native home
- Page No:
- p.178
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Hypocrisy the thriving'st calling
- Page No:
- pp.179-180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- And yet of marriage bands I'm weary grown
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Secrets of marriage still are sacred held
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Men's eyes are not so subtle to perceive
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Beau.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Beaumont
- First Line:
- What tortures can there be in hell
- Page No:
- pp.180-181
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Walsh.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- For jealousy is but a kind
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Ah why are not the hearts of woman known
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Jealousy is a noble crime
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- No sign of love in jealous men remains
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Small jealousies tis true inflame desire
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The greater care the higher passion shows
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thinkst thou I'll make a life of jealousy
- Page No:
- pp.181-182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Torment me with this horrid rage no more
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Walsh.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- For o what damned minutes tells he over
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Had it pleased heaven
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- And doubts and fears to jealousies will turn
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- How frail how cowardly is woman's mind
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- O plague me heaven plague me with all the woes
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Final destruction seize on all the world
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Oh that my arms could both the poles embrace
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- O that as oft I have the Athens seen
- Page No:
- pp.184-185
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Seeing aright we see our woes
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- That I could reach the axle where the pins are
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Joh.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- Cursed be the hour that gave me birth
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- For he that has but impudence
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Get that great gift and talent impudence
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Oldh.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- Custom our native royalty does awe
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Nature abhors | To be forced back again upon her self
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I never yet could see that face
- Page No:
- pp.185-186
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- For as a Pythagorean soul
- Page No:
- pp.186-187
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- All my past life is mine no more
- Page No:
- p.186
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Virtue dear friend needs no defence
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Rosc.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Immediately a place
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- A generous fierceness dwells with innocence
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Inconstancy's the plague that first or last
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ingratitude's the growth of every clime
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oh that I had my innocence again
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- And in this thankless world the givers
- Page No:
- p.187.3
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- All seek their ends and each would other cheat
- Page No:
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Interest is the most prevailing cheat
- Page No:
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The challenger with fierce defy
- Page No:
- pp.188-189
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts
- Page No:
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Resistless floods of sudden pleasure roll
- Page No:
- pp.189-190
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Joy is in every face without a cloud
- Page No:
- p.189
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Great joys as well as sorrows make a stay
- Page No:
- p.189
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Know be it known to the limits of the world
- Page No:
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Oedip.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- O you are so divine and cause such fondness
- Page No:
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Be still my sorrows and be loud my joys
- Page No:
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- She bids me hope o heavens she pities me
- Page No:
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- But oh the joy the mighty extasy
- Page No:
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- O my soul's joy
- Page No:
- p.191
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Oh the dear hour in which you did resign
- Page No:
- p.191
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- There's not a slave a shackled slave of mine
- Page No:
- p.191
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Just as the scale of heaven that weighs the seasons
- Page No:
- p.191
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- My joy stops at my tongue
- Page No:
- p.191
- Poem Title:
- Weeping for Joy.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then into tears of joy the father broke
- Page No:
- p.191
- Poem Title:
- Weeping for Joy.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Of all the virtues justice is the best
- Page No:
- p.191
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Justice gives sentence many times
- Page No:
- p.192
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Justice though she's painted blind
- Page No:
- p.192
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- So justice while she winks at crimes
- Page No:
- p.192
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Kindness has resistless charms
- Page No:
- p.192
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- O polished perturbation golden care
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- How wretchedly he rules
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Princes by disobedience get command
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- How.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- Unbounded power and height of greatness give
- Page No:
- pp.193-194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Row.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- A monarch's crown
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Kings' titles commonly begin by force
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Some kings the name of conquerours assumed
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What's royalty but power to please myself
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- She kissed and sighed and sighed and kissed again
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Balmy as cordials that recover souls
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- She printed melting kisses as she spoke
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Oldh.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- Then thus we'll lie and thus we'll kiss
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Oldh.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- Deep on his front engraven
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- How I could dwell for ever on those lips
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I felt the while a pleasing kind of smart
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- They kissed with such a fervor
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Such heat and vigour shall our kisses bear
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- As amorous and fond and billing
- Page No:
- p.195
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- The ancient errant knights
- Page No:
- p.195
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- And now the herald lark
- Page No:
- p.195
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Laws bear the name but money has the power
- Page No:
- pp.195-196
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build
- Page No:
- p.195
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- The wise example of the heavenly lark
- Page No:
- p.195
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- For lawyers lest bear defendant
- Page No:
- p.196
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- He that with injury is grieved
- Page No:
- p.196
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Tis law that settles all you do
- Page No:
- pp.196-198
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Until with subtle cobweb cheats
- Page No:
- p.196
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- You save the expence of long litigious laws
- Page No:
- p.196
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As you have well instructed me
- Page No:
- p.198
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- I would not give quoth Hudibras
- Page No:
- p.198
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Scarce had she finished when her feet she found
- Page No:
- p.198
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Learning that cobweb of the brain
- Page No:
- pp.199-200
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Thirsis a youth of the inspired train
- Page No:
- p.199
- Poem Title:
- The Story of Phoebus and Daphne apply'd.
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus lawrel is the sign of labour crowned
- Page No:
- p.199
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- On the dark banks where Lethe's lazy deep
- Page No:
- p.200
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Tis quickening liberty that gives us breath
- Page No:
- p.200
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Quoth he the one half of man his mind
- Page No:
- pp.200-201
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- A sleep dull as your last did you arrest
- Page No:
- p.200
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Oldh.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- The love of liberty with life is given
- Page No:
- p.200
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O give me liberty
- Page No:
- p.201
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When I consider life tis all a cheat
- Page No:
- pp.201-202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
- Page No:
- p.201
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Life's but a walking shadow a poor player
- Page No:
- p.202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow
- Page No:
- p.202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Gods life's your gift then season't with such fate
- Page No:
- pp.202-203
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Nor love thy life nor hate but what thou livest
- Page No:
- p.202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- For life can never be sincerely blessed
- Page No:
- p.202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Indulge and to thy genius freely give
- Page No:
- p.202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Pers.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Life is but air
- Page No:
- p.202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- They live too long who happiness outlive
- Page No:
- p.202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tis not for nothing that we life pursue
- Page No:
- p.202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Firstborn of chaos who so fair didst come
- Page No:
- pp.203-204
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Quick lightning flies when heavy clouds rush on
- Page No:
- p.204
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cre. Lucr.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- As when tempestuous storms overspread the skies
- Page No:
- pp.204-205
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Love is not sin but where tis sinful love
- Page No:
- pp.205-206
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love the most generous passion of the mind
- Page No:
- p.205
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- The clouds | Justling or pushed by winds rude in their shock
- Page No:
- p.205
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- As where the lightning runs along the ground
- Page No:
- p.205
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- For love's not always of a vicious kind
- Page No:
- p.205
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Love that does all that's noble here below
- Page No:
- p.205
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Love's an heroic passion which can find
- Page No:
- p.205
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Love is a burglarer a felon
- Page No:
- p.206
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- See the heavens in lightnings break
- Page No:
- pp.206-207
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- For love the sense of right and wrong confounds
- Page No:
- p.206
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- No law is made for love
- Page No:
- p.206
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The power of love
- Page No:
- p.206
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What are thou love thou great mysterious thing
- Page No:
- p.206
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- For lovers hearts are not their own hearts
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- A change so swift what heart did ever feel
- Page No:
- pp.207-208
- Poem Title:
- Falling in Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I have no reason left that can assist me
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In love what use of prudence can there be
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Love is the pleasant frenzy of the mind
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The fate of love is such
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Witness you powers
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ye niggard gods you make our lives too long
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I came I saw and was undone
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- Falling in Love.
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- He had got a hurt
- Page No:
- p.208
- Poem Title:
- Falling in Love.
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- O love o cursed boy
- Page No:
- pp.208-209
- Poem Title:
- Falling in Love.
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- I am pleased and pained since first her eyes I saw
- Page No:
- p.208
- Poem Title:
- Falling in Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- That proud dame for whom his soul
- Page No:
- p.209
- Poem Title:
- Falling in Love.
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Mine was an age when love might be excused
- Page No:
- p.209
- Poem Title:
- Love and Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The bloom of beauty other years demands
- Page No:
- p.209
- Poem Title:
- Love and Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- You cannot love nore pleasure take nor give
- Page No:
- p.209
- Poem Title:
- Love and Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Whilst on Septimius panting breast
- Page No:
- pp.209-210
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- All constant lovers shall in future ages
- Page No:
- pp.210-211
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- For your love does lie
- Page No:
- p.210
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Quoth he my faith as Adamantine
- Page No:
- p.211
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Quoth he to bid me not to love
- Page No:
- p.211
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- That I do love you O all you host of heaven
- Page No:
- p.211
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- How I have loved | Witness ye days and nights and all your hours
- Page No:
- pp.211-212
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee
- Page No:
- p.211
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Go bid the needle his dear north foresake
- Page No:
- p.211
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- If all my heart and soul been it thine
- Page No:
- p.211
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Lavinia oh there's music in the name
- Page No:
- p.212
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- And is it given me thus to touch thy hand
- Page No:
- p.212
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Not the spring's mouth nor breath of jessamine
- Page No:
- p.212
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Oh she is all softness
- Page No:
- p.212
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Tis now that I begin to live again
- Page No:
- p.212
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tis she she only that can make me blessed
- Page No:
- p.212
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- By heaven my Edith
- Page No:
- p.212
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Beau.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Beaumont
- First Line:
- Gallop apace ye fiery footed steeds
- Page No:
- pp.213-214
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O Pierre wert thou but she
- Page No:
- p.213
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Hold off and let me run into his arms
- Page No:
- p.213
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Semandra shall be mine even all Semandra
- Page No:
- p.213
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Love mounts and rolls about my stormy mind
- Page No:
- p.213
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oh thou art my soul itself wealth friendship honour
- Page No:
- p.214
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- But oh there wants to crown my happiness
- Page No:
- p.214
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- She reigns more fully in my soul than ever
- Page No:
- pp.214-215
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- The god of love empties his golden quiver
- Page No:
- p.214
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Give ye gods give to your boy your Caesar
- Page No:
- p.214
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Where am I surely paradise is round me
- Page No:
- p.215
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Who can behold such beauty and be silent
- Page No:
- p.215
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- The sun shall now no more dispense
- Page No:
- pp.215-216
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Oh the killing joy
- Page No:
- p.215
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Love in your sunny eyes does basking play
- Page No:
- p.215
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Hold hold quoth she no more of this
- Page No:
- pp.216-217
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Why so pale and wan fond lover
- Page No:
- p.217
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Suckl.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Suckling
- First Line:
- Does the mute sacrifice upbraid the priest
- Page No:
- pp.217-218
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The god of love once more has shot his fires
- Page No:
- p.217
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The proverb holds that to be wise and love
- Page No:
- p.217
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ah cruel heaven that made no cure for love
- Page No:
- p.218
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Kings fight for kingdoms madmen for applause
- Page No:
- p.218
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Love gives esteem and then he gives desert
- Page No:
- p.218
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The faults of love by love are justified
- Page No:
- p.218
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What priestly rites alas what pious art
- Page No:
- p.218
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of love.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Anger in hasty words or blows
- Page No:
- p.218
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- So like the chances are of love and war
- Page No:
- p.218
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- As virtue never will be moved
- Page No:
- p.219
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- But true and faithful's sure to lose
- Page No:
- p.219
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- For loyalty is still the same
- Page No:
- p.219
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Yes I will shake this Cupid from my arms
- Page No:
- p.219
- Poem Title:
- Protestations of Love.
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Let fools the name of loyalty divide
- Page No:
- p.219
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The trembling strings about her fingers crowd
- Page No:
- pp.219-220
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- For whom should we esteem above
- Page No:
- p.219
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cow.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- To burning Rome when frantic Nero played
- Page No:
- p.220
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- As when the swains the Lybian lion chase
- Page No:
- p.220
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So when the generous lion has in sight
- Page No:
- p.220
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then as a hungry lion who beholds
- Page No:
- p.220
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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