The Art of English Poetry (M-Z) [T136727]
- DMI number:
- 1487
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1702
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T136727
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW116738363
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Octavo
- Comments:
- See also miscellany ID 1430 for entries A-L.
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Publication Date:
- 1702
- ESTC No:
- T136727
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Edward Bysshe
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Benjamin Tooke
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Edward Castle
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Robert Knaplock
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Now see that noble and most sovereign reason
- Page No:
- p.221
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- To my charmed ears no more of woman tell
- Page No:
- p.221
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Madmen ought not to be mad
- Page No:
- p.221
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- There is a pleasure sure in being mad
- Page No:
- p.221
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Time was when we were sowed and just began
- Page No:
- pp.221-222
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Man is but man inconstant still and various
- Page No:
- p.222
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So man at first a drop dilates with heat
- Page No:
- p.222
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Mankind one day serene and free appear
- Page No:
- p.223
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Mankind upon each other's ruins rise
- Page No:
- pp.223-225
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Ah what is man when his own wish prevails
- Page No:
- p.223
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Men are but children of a larger growth
- Page No:
- p.223
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Hail wedded love mysterious law true source
- Page No:
- p.225
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- To the nuptial bower
- Page No:
- p.225
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- When fixed to one love safe at anchor rides
- Page No:
- p.225
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With gaudy plumes and jingling bells made proud
- Page No:
- p.226
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- A slavery beyond enduring
- Page No:
- p.226
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- All women would be of one piece
- Page No:
- p.226
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- And wedlock without love some say
- Page No:
- p.226
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Marriage is but a beast some say
- Page No:
- p.226
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Marriage thou curse of love and snare of life
- Page No:
- p.226
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- For after matrimony's over
- Page No:
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Marriage at best is but a vow
- Page No:
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Fondness is still the effect of new delight
- Page No:
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Lord of your self uncumbered with a wife
- Page No:
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Strong god of arms whose iron scepter sways
- Page No:
- pp.227-228
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus on the banks of Hebrus freezing flood
- Page No:
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In the dome of mighty Mars the red
- Page No:
- pp.229-231
- Poem Title:
- Temple of Mars.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- For thee sweet month the groves green liveries wear
- Page No:
- p.231
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Sprightly May commands our youth to keep
- Page No:
- p.231
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Much will always wanting be
- Page No:
- p.231
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Pleasures abroad the sports of nature yields
- Page No:
- p.231
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Plain was his couch and only rich in mind
- Page No:
- p.232
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Since wealth and power too weak we find
- Page No:
- p.232
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw. Hor.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- This melancholy flatters but unmans you
- Page No:
- pp.232-233
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He's no small prince who every day
- Page No:
- p.232
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Remember thee | I thou poor ghost while memory holds a seat
- Page No:
- p.233
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- It makes a toy press with prodigious weight
- Page No:
- p.233
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Hermes obeys with golden pinions binds
- Page No:
- pp.233-234
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Something like | That voice methinks I should have somewhere heard
- Page No:
- p.233
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Things which offend when present and affright
- Page No:
- p.233
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Offspring divine in heaven the most beloved
- Page No:
- p.234
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Curse on the unpardoning prince whom tears can draw
- Page No:
- pp.234-235
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Heaven has but | Our sorrow for our sins and then delights
- Page No:
- p.234
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- To threats the stubborn sinner oft is hard
- Page No:
- p.234
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now those profounder regions they explore
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- My mind not to be changed by place or time
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- A way there is in heaven's expanded plain
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- But kings too tame are despicably good
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Empire over the sea and main
- Page No:
- pp.235-236
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Even time that changes all yet changes us in vain
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- My mind on its own centre stands unmoved
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- And though love's all the world's pretence
- Page No:
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- For money is the only power
- Page No:
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- For now the world is grown so wary
- Page No:
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Men venture necks to gain a fortune
- Page No:
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Money being the common scale
- Page No:
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- This money has a power above
- Page No:
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- You bear the specious title of a wife
- Page No:
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- And to be plain tis not your person
- Page No:
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- For money like the swords of kings
- Page No:
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- For money tis that is the great
- Page No:
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Hence tis no lover has the power
- Page No:
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- The queen of night whose vast command
- Page No:
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- The moon | Rising in clouded majesty at length
- Page No:
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Twas ebbing darkness past the noon of night
- Page No:
- pp.237-238
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He smoothed the rough cast moon's imperfect mold
- Page No:
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- And now a glance from mild Aurora's eyes
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- At length gay morn smiles in the eastern sky
- Page No:
- pp.238-239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now the fair morn smiles with a purple ray
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- And now went forth the morn arrayed in gold
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Dim night her shadowy cloud withdraws the morn
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Meanwhile to resalute the world with sacred light
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Now morn her rosy steps in the eastern clime
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Aurora had but newly chased the night
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The morning lark the messenger of day
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The rosy-fingered morn appears
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Twas just the time when the new ebb of night
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Behold the morn in russet mantle clad
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Behold what streaks
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Wished morning's up and now upon the plains
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Now had Aurora on the face of night
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- The sun had long since in the lap
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- And now the city emmets leave their hive
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- And now the rising morn with rosy light
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The morn ensuing from the mountain's height
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- It is methinks a morning full of fate
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Joh.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- Parent of day whose beauteous beams of light
- Page No:
- pp.240-241
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Yald.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- Seek not to know tomorrow's doom
- Page No:
- p.241
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- The hoary fool who many days
- Page No:
- p.241
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Happy the man and happy he alone
- Page No:
- p.241
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Learn | The bounds of good and evil to discern
- Page No:
- pp.241-242
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tomorrow and her works defie
- Page No:
- p.241
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- His proud head the airy mountain hides
- Page No:
- p.242
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- As when a fragment from a mountain torn
- Page No:
- p.242
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Here the vicious air and sickly skies
- Page No:
- pp.242-244
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Life for delays and doubts no time does give
- Page No:
- p.242
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Our yesterday's tomorrow now is gone
- Page No:
- p.242
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Tomorrow I will live the fool does say
- Page No:
- p.242
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- From poisonous stars a mortal influence came
- Page No:
- pp.244-245
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Go the rich chariot instantly prepare
- Page No:
- pp.245-246
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Now ever we venture to unfold
- Page No:
- p.246
- Poem Title:
- Invocations of the Muses.
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Descend from heaven Urania by that name
- Page No:
- pp.247-248
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Now Erato the poet's mind inspire
- Page No:
- p.247
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Virg. Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Queen of all harmonious things
- Page No:
- p.247
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Thou that with ale or viler liquors
- Page No:
- p.248
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Tell me o muse for thou or none canst tell
- Page No:
- pp.248-249
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- If music be the food of love play on
- Page No:
- pp.249-250
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- But man may justly tuneful strains admire
- Page No:
- p.249
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- From harmony from heavenly harmony
- Page No:
- p.249
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- His sheep would scorn their food to hear his lay
- Page No:
- p.249
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Music has charms to sooth a savage beast
- Page No:
- p.250
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Him have I seen on Isther's banks he stood
- Page No:
- p.250
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus long ago
- Page No:
- p.250
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Soon as with gentle sighs the evening breeze
- Page No:
- p.251
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now night advancing draws her sable train
- Page No:
- p.251
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Twas at an hour when busy nature lay
- Page No:
- pp.251-252
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- And now from end to end
- Page No:
- p.251
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Darkness now rose and brought in lowering night
- Page No:
- p.251
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- His finny train Saturnian Neptune joins
- Page No:
- p.251
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Meanwhile the rapid heavens rolled down the light
- Page No:
- p.251
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now had the sun withdrawn his radiant light
- Page No:
- p.251
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now night had shed her silver dews around
- Page No:
- p.251
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now all is hushed as nature were retired
- Page No:
- pp.252-253
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Tis night the season when the happy take
- Page No:
- p.252
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- When the still night with peaceful poppies crowned
- Page No:
- p.252
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- The sun grew low and left the skies
- Page No:
- p.252
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Now had night measured with her shadowy cone
- Page No:
- p.253
- Poem Title:
- Midnight.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The steeds of night had travelled half the sky
- Page No:
- p.253
- Poem Title:
- Midnight.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Twas dead of night when weary bodies close
- Page No:
- p.253
- Poem Title:
- Midnight.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Twas in the dead of night when sleep repairs
- Page No:
- p.253
- Poem Title:
- Midnight.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Twas still low ebb of night when not a star
- Page No:
- p.253
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- It was the time when the still moon
- Page No:
- p.253
- Poem Title:
- Midnight.
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Tis night dead night and weary nature lies
- Page No:
- p.254
- Poem Title:
- Midnight.
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- The wakeful bird
- Page No:
- p.254
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- All things were hushed as nature's self lay dead
- Page No:
- p.254
- Poem Title:
- Midnight.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So close in poplar shades her children gone
- Page No:
- p.254
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- All things were hushed as when the drawers tread
- Page No:
- p.254
- Poem Title:
- Midnight.
- Attribution:
- Ratc.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Radcliffe
- First Line:
- Nobility of blood
- Page No:
- p.255
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Search we the secret springs
- Page No:
- pp.255-256
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Virtue alone is true nobility
- Page No:
- p.255
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Step. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Nothing thou elder brother even to shade
- Page No:
- pp.256-257
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- The full blazing sun
- Page No:
- p.256
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Even mighty monarchs oft are meanly born
- Page No:
- p.256
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The southing sun inflames the day
- Page No:
- p.256
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- All novelties must this success expect
- Page No:
- p.257
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Actions of the last age are like almanacks of the last year
- Page No:
- p.257
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- As a tall oak that young and verdant stood
- Page No:
- p.258
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- As when the winds their airy quarrel try
- Page No:
- pp.258-259
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The builder oak the tree of Jove
- Page No:
- p.258
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The monarch oak the patriarch of trees
- Page No:
- p.258
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oaths are but words and words but wind
- Page No:
- p.259
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- So sullenly addicted still
- Page No:
- pp.259-260
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Thus two tall oaks that Padus banks adorn
- Page No:
- p.259
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- For fools are stubborn in their way
- Page No:
- p.260
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- He still resolved to mend the matter
- Page No:
- p.260
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Thrice he struck
- Page No:
- pp.260-261
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- How happy is the evening tide of life
- Page No:
- pp.261-262
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Some few by temperance taught approaching slow
- Page No:
- p.261
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Doddered with age the winter of man's life
- Page No:
- p.262
- Poem Title:
- Inconveniences of Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Jove grant me length of life and years good store
- Page No:
- p.262
- Poem Title:
- Inconveniences of Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now my chill blood is curdled in my veins
- Page No:
- p.262
- Poem Title:
- Inconveniences of Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Propped on a staff she takes a trembling mien
- Page No:
- pp.262-263
- Poem Title:
- Inconveniences of Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- These are the effects of doting age
- Page No:
- p.262
- Poem Title:
- Inconveniences of Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The soul with nobler resolutions decked
- Page No:
- p.262
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- As an owl that in a barn
- Page No:
- p.263
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin
- Page No:
- p.263
- Poem Title:
- Inconveniences of Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The boding bird
- Page No:
- p.263
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When my blood was warm
- Page No:
- p.263
- Poem Title:
- Inconveniences of Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With boding note
- Page No:
- p.263
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Rare artisan whose pencil moves
- Page No:
- pp.263-264
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Oft am I by the women told
- Page No:
- p.263
- Poem Title:
- Inconveniences of Old Age.
- Attribution:
- Cowl. Anacr.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Once I beheld the fairest of her kind
- Page No:
- pp.264-266
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As pirates all false colours wear
- Page No:
- pp.266-267
- Poem Title:
- Women's Painting.
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Such Helen was and who can blame the boy
- Page No:
- p.266
- Poem Title:
- Under a Ladies' Picture.
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- How wretched does Prometheus' state appear
- Page No:
- p.266
- Poem Title:
- Prometheus ill Painted.
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Men thought so much a flame by art was shown
- Page No:
- p.266
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- So on he fares and to the borders comes
- Page No:
- pp.267-268
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- A blissful field circled with groves of myrrh
- Page No:
- pp.268-269
- Poem Title:
- Garden of Eden.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- His large fair front and eye sublime declared
- Page No:
- pp.269-270
- Poem Title:
- Adam and Eve in Paradise.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The laws that are inanimate
- Page No:
- p.270
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Forgiveness to the injured does belong
- Page No:
- p.270
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I cannot cannot tell her we must part
- Page No:
- pp.270-271
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now I would speak the last farewell but cannot
- Page No:
- p.270
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Parting is worse than death tis death of love
- Page No:
- p.270
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What have we gained by this one minute more
- Page No:
- p.271
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- There's such sweet pain in parting
- Page No:
- p.271
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Thus the soft mother though the babe be dead
- Page No:
- p.271
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- They sat them down to weep nor only tears
- Page No:
- pp.271-272
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Come what come may
- Page No:
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Men counsel and give comfort to that grief
- Page No:
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Love anguish wrath and grief to madness wrought
- Page No:
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Patience in cowards is tame hopeless fear
- Page No:
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Stupid he sat his eyes on earth declined
- Page No:
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tis pleasant safely to behold from shore
- Page No:
- pp.273-274
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A fury crawled from out her cell
- Page No:
- p.273
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- To subdue the unconquerable mind
- Page No:
- p.273
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- O if the foolish race of man who find
- Page No:
- pp.274-275
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In all her mazes nature's face they viewed
- Page No:
- pp.275-276
- Poem Title:
- Natural Philosophy.
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Then sung the bard how the light vapours rise
- Page No:
- pp.276-277
- Poem Title:
- Natural Philosophy.
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- His noble verse through nature's secrets leads
- Page No:
- p.276
- Poem Title:
- Natural Philosophy.
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- He was a shrewd philosopher
- Page No:
- p.277
- Poem Title:
- Natural Philosophy.
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Thus all receive their birth from other things
- Page No:
- pp.277-278
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As softest metals are not slow to melt
- Page No:
- p.278
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Physic can but mend our crazy state
- Page No:
- p.278
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Pity on fresh objects only stays
- Page No:
- p.278
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The raw damps
- Page No:
- pp.278-279
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The rising vapours choke the wholesome air
- Page No:
- p.278
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The rocks were moved to pity with his moan
- Page No:
- p.278
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Over Ethiopia and the southern sands
- Page No:
- pp.279-283
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Bp. of Rochester's Plague of Athens.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Sprat
- First Line:
- Is it not monstrous that this player here
- Page No:
- p.283
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Delights those beautiful illusions play
- Page No:
- pp.283-284
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Pleasure never comes sincere to man
- Page No:
- p.283
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The gods will frown wherever they do smile
- Page No:
- p.283
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dors.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- And frequent use does the delight exclude
- Page No:
- p.284
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- He rhymes appropriate could make
- Page No:
- p.284
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Sometimes of humble rural things
- Page No:
- pp.284-285
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dennis
- Attributed To:
- John Dennis
- First Line:
- In your lines let energy be found
- Page No:
- pp.285-286
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Dissentious rogues
- Page No:
- p.286
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Sedley has that prevailing gentle art
- Page No:
- p.286
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Almighty crowd thou shortens all dispute
- Page No:
- p.286
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As there is music uninformed by art
- Page No:
- p.286
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Base mongrel souls flesh em but once with fortune
- Page No:
- p.286
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The scum
- Page No:
- p.286
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The commonwealth is sick of her own choice
- Page No:
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- The genius of your moors is mutiny
- Page No:
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The streets are thicker in this noon of night
- Page No:
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As when in tumults rise the ignoble crowd
- Page No:
- p.288
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Empire thou poor and despicable thing
- Page No:
- p.288
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I have no taste
- Page No:
- p.288
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Observe the mounting billows of the main
- Page No:
- p.288
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The admiring crowd are dazzled with surprise
- Page No:
- p.288
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The giddy vulgar as their fancies guide
- Page No:
- p.288
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- All tongues speak of him and the bleared sights
- Page No:
- p.289
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Search there nay probe me search my wounded reins
- Page No:
- pp.289-290
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- The people rend the skies with loud applause
- Page No:
- p.289
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A parish priest was of the pilgrim train
- Page No:
- pp.290-291
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Quick shootings through my limbs and pricking pains
- Page No:
- p.290
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Nothing in vain the gods create
- Page No:
- p.290
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Quoth Ralpho you mistake the matter
- Page No:
- p.291
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Priesthood that makes a merchandise of heaven
- Page No:
- p.291
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- For gain has wonderful effects
- Page No:
- p.292
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- For priests of all religions are the same
- Page No:
- p.292
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I tell thee Mufti if the world were wise
- Page No:
- p.292
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Is not the care of souls a load sufficient
- Page No:
- pp.292-293
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The gods are theirs not ours and when we pray
- Page No:
- p.292
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Triumphant plenty with a cheerful grace
- Page No:
- p.293
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Sure tis an orthodox opinion
- Page No:
- pp.293-294
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- But bloated with ambition pride and avarice
- Page No:
- p.293
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Yet churchmen though they itch to govern all
- Page No:
- p.293
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So when the pygmies marshalled on the plains
- Page No:
- pp.294-295
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- It is no scandal nor aspersion
- Page No:
- p.294
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Prudence thou vainly in our youth art sought
- Page No:
- p.294
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In storms when clouds the moon do hide
- Page No:
- p.295
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw. Hor.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- When cranes invade his little sword and shield
- Page No:
- p.295
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cre. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Away be gone and give a whirlwind room
- Page No:
- pp.295-296
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- His breast with fury burned his eyes with fire
- Page No:
- p.295
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Patience o I've none
- Page No:
- p.295
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Restless his feet distracted was his walk
- Page No:
- p.295
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tempests and whirlwinds through his bosom move
- Page No:
- p.295
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus oft the lord of nature in the air
- Page No:
- p.296
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- To what a height did infant Rome
- Page No:
- pp.296-297
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Tis nobler like a lion to invade
- Page No:
- p.296
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Force is the last relief which lovers find
- Page No:
- p.296
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Reason the power to guess at right and wrong
- Page No:
- p.297
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Congr.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Force never yet a generous breast did gain
- Page No:
- p.297
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O why did heaven leave man so weak defence
- Page No:
- pp.297-298
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Reason was given to curb our headstrong will
- Page No:
- p.297
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Turning of religion's made
- Page No:
- p.298
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Look round how providence bestows alike
- Page No:
- pp.298-299
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- All faiths are to their own believers just
- Page No:
- p.298
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- By education most have been misled
- Page No:
- p.298
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The common cry is ever religion's test
- Page No:
- p.298
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- To prove religion true
- Page No:
- p.298
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In the corrupted currents of this world
- Page No:
- pp.299-300
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Oh my offence is rank it smells to heaven
- Page No:
- p.299
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- No while our former flames remain within
- Page No:
- p.299
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Good name in man or woman
- Page No:
- p.300
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- The archangel's trumpet shakes the trembling ground
- Page No:
- pp.300-301
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- For true repentance never comes too late
- Page No:
- p.300
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Encompassed with a wood of spears around
- Page No:
- pp.301-302
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Whom thunder's dismal noise
- Page No:
- p.301
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Now I will do it now he is praying
- Page No:
- pp.302-303
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Exalted Socrates divinely brave
- Page No:
- p.302
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cre. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Revenge is but a frailty incident
- Page No:
- p.302
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Oldh.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- What though his mighty soul his grief contains
- Page No:
- p.302
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- And those who write in rhyme still make
- Page No:
- p.303
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- For rhetoric he could no ope
- Page No:
- p.303
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Rhyme the rudder is of verses
- Page No:
- p.303
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Fond men by passions wilfully betrayed
- Page No:
- p.304
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Rosc.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Of all the vows the first and chief request
- Page No:
- p.304
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Greatness of mind and fortune too
- Page No:
- p.304
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- First he that led the cavalcade
- Page No:
- pp.305-306
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- But Hudibras who used to ponder
- Page No:
- p.306
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Roxana then enjoys my perjured love
- Page No:
- pp.306-307
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Great was their strife which hourly was renewed
- Page No:
- p.306
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Love and a crown no rivalship can bear
- Page No:
- p.306
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Lovers like misers cannot bear the stealth
- Page No:
- p.306
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O love thou sternly dost thy power maintain
- Page No:
- p.306
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Its wanton tide in wreathing volumes flows
- Page No:
- pp.307-308
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- The fair Medvaga that with wanton pride
- Page No:
- p.307
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Thames the most loved of all the ocean's sons
- Page No:
- p.307
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- When a calm river raised with sudden rains
- Page No:
- p.308
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- A pointed flinty rock all bare and black
- Page No:
- p.308
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A rock that braves
- Page No:
- p.308
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Betwixt the trees the Tiber took its course
- Page No:
- p.308
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Far in the sea against the foaming shore
- Page No:
- p.308
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- All take their seats and wait the founding sign
- Page No:
- pp.309-310
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Go lovely rose
- Page No:
- p.309
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Our anchors weighed and topsails loosed a gale
- Page No:
- p.310
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- The howling sailors all their anchors weighed
- Page No:
- p.310
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Entering with cheerful shouts the watery reign
- Page No:
- p.310
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So the boat's brawny crew the current stem
- Page No:
- p.310
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The wind sufficed the sail
- Page No:
- p.310
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- There is a lust in man no charm can tame
- Page No:
- p.311
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Harv. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- Stephen Harvey
- First Line:
- In school-divinity as able
- Page No:
- pp.311-312
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Salmoneus suffering cruel pains I found
- Page No:
- p.311
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As water fluid is till it does grow
- Page No:
- p.312
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Who pride and scorn do undergo
- Page No:
- p.312
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Commanded by thy breath the obsequious main
- Page No:
- pp.313-314
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Thus some the harsher and hide-bounder
- Page No:
- p.313
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- In the streights | Where proud Pelorus opes a wider way
- Page No:
- p.313
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Some carve the trunks and breathing shapes bestow
- Page No:
- p.313
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In midst a table of rich ivory stands
- Page No:
- p.313
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- The serpent sleeping fast the devil found
- Page No:
- pp.314-315
- Poem Title:
- Serpent tempting Eve.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Two serpents rolled abreast the seas divide
- Page No:
- p.314
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With speckled pride
- Page No:
- p.314
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Behold Alexis see this gloomy shade
- Page No:
- p.315
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- So black the shade so thick the stagnant air
- Page No:
- pp.315-316
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Behold a stately ship
- Page No:
- p.316
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- A greenwood shade for long religion known
- Page No:
- p.316
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As far as I could cast my eyes
- Page No:
- p.316
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Meanwhile the health of Arcite still impairs
- Page No:
- pp.316-317
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He raised a sigh so hideous and profound
- Page No:
- p.317
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- All around
- Page No:
- p.317
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- She drew a length of sighs
- Page No:
- p.317
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Sighed from her inward soul
- Page No:
- p.317
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oh lovely Amoret the care
- Page No:
- p.317
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Nor women's sighs nor tears are true
- Page No:
- pp.317-318
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Silence the midnight god appears
- Page No:
- p.318
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Congr.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Meanwhile the knight had no small task
- Page No:
- pp.318-319
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Keep down ye rising sighs
- Page No:
- p.318
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Silence more dreadful than severest sounds
- Page No:
- p.318
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- No to what purpose should I speak
- Page No:
- p.318
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Amphion sung not sweeter to his herd
- Page No:
- p.319
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- She raised her voice on high and sung so clear
- Page No:
- p.319
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- She sung and caroled out so clear
- Page No:
- p.319
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Behold and listen while the fair
- Page No:
- p.319
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- While I listen to thy voice
- Page No:
- pp.319-320
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Let all be hushed each softest motion cease
- Page No:
- p.320
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Congr.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Near the Cimmerians in his dark abode
- Page No:
- pp.320-321
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Chloe yourself you so excel
- Page No:
- p.320
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Sleep that locks up the senses from their care
- Page No:
- p.321
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- The weary world's best medicine sleep
- Page No:
- p.321
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dav.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Somnus the humble god that dwells
- Page No:
- pp.321-322
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- O sacred rest
- Page No:
- p.321
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O sleep O gentle sleep
- Page No:
- p.322
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- In vain thou drowsy god I thee invoke
- Page No:
- pp.322-323
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- The god of sloth in undisturbed repose
- Page No:
- p.323
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- As when the Cyclops at the almighty nod
- Page No:
- pp.323-324
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- One stirs the fire and one the bellows blows
- Page No:
- p.323
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The smith prepares his hammer for the stroke
- Page No:
- p.323
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So when the spring's warm breath and cheering ray
- Page No:
- pp.324-325
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Black smouldering smoke from the green wood expires
- Page No:
- p.324
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In fair Calabria's wood a snake is bred
- Page No:
- p.324
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The smoke in cloudy vapours flies
- Page No:
- p.324
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As when a snake surprised upon the road
- Page No:
- p.325
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So shines renewed in youth the crested snake
- Page No:
- p.325
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Of a lady playing with a snake
- Page No:
- p.325
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- A shower of soft and fleecy rain
- Page No:
- p.326
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Congr.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- A leader seemed
- Page No:
- p.326
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Black was his beard and manly was his face
- Page No:
- p.326
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Twelve legions wait you
- Page No:
- pp.326-327
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He at the news
- Page No:
- p.327
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Oh thou hast fired me my soul is up in arms
- Page No:
- p.327
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O solitude first state of humane kind
- Page No:
- p.327
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- For spirits when they please
- Page No:
- p.328
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Spirits that live throughout
- Page No:
- p.328
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- His drooping head was rested on his hand
- Page No:
- p.328
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In sorrow drowned
- Page No:
- p.328
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now turning from the wintry signs the sun
- Page No:
- pp.328-329
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The spring adorns the woods renews the leaves
- Page No:
- pp.329-330
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He plied
- Page No:
- p.330
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- See on the shore inhabits purple spring
- Page No:
- p.330
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The early dawning of the year
- Page No:
- p.330
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The horse's flanks and sides are forced to feel
- Page No:
- p.330
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The trees are clothed with leaves the fields with grass
- Page No:
- p.330
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When spring makes equal day
- Page No:
- p.330
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When winter's rage abates when cheerful hours
- Page No:
- p.330
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So when two vigorous stags each of his herd
- Page No:
- p.331
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- As once the Phrygian knight
- Page No:
- p.331
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- While Hudibras with equal haste
- Page No:
- p.331
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Adds the remembrance of the spur and hides
- Page No:
- p.331
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- On the plain
- Page No:
- p.331
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus when a fearful stag is closed around
- Page No:
- p.332
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- On the head of a stag
- Page No:
- p.332
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- So the tall stag upon the brink
- Page No:
- p.332
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- He spread the pure cerulean fields on high
- Page No:
- p.333
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- His marshalled clouds to intercept the light
- Page No:
- p.333
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- With orbs of light he inlays all the spheres
- Page No:
- p.333
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Fairest of stars last in the train of night
- Page No:
- p.333
- Poem Title:
- Morning Star.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- He from the glittering staff unfurled
- Page No:
- p.333
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The gems of heaven that gild night's sable throne
- Page No:
- p.333
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- He waved his royal banner in the wind
- Page No:
- p.333
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So from the seas exerts his radiant head
- Page No:
- p.333
- Poem Title:
- Morning Star.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Statues that skill inimitable showed
- Page No:
- p.334
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- At farther end of the town there stands
- Page No:
- pp.334-335
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Bright Hesperus that leads the starry train
- Page No:
- p.334
- Poem Title:
- Evening Star.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- He carved in ivory such a maid so fair
- Page No:
- p.334
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The seeming stars fall headlong from the skies
- Page No:
- p.334
- Poem Title:
- Falling Star.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As when the storks prepare to change their clime
- Page No:
- pp.335-336
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- For as the ancients heretofore
- Page No:
- p.335
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Now gathering clouds the day begin to drown
- Page No:
- pp.336-337
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Oft have I seen a sudden storm arise
- Page No:
- p.336
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Heaven's crystal battlements to pieces dashed
- Page No:
- p.337
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Either tropic now
- Page No:
- p.337
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- We must resign heaven his great soul does claim
- Page No:
- pp.337-338
- Poem Title:
- On the Storm that preceeded the Death of O. Cromwel.
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Now like a fiery meteor sunk the sun
- Page No:
- p.338
- Poem Title:
- Storms at Sea.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then over our heads descends a burst of rain
- Page No:
- p.338
- Poem Title:
- Storms at Sea.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus when a black browed gust begins to rise
- Page No:
- pp.338-339
- Poem Title:
- Storms at Sea.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- And now a breeze from shore began to blow
- Page No:
- pp.339-342
- Poem Title:
- Storm and Shipwrack.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The stream is so transparent pure and clear
- Page No:
- p.342
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- Close by a softly murmuring stream
- Page No:
- p.342
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Hard by a stream did with that softness creep
- Page No:
- p.342
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Oldh.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- But what is strength without a double share
- Page No:
- p.342
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Composed of mighty bones and brawn he stands
- Page No:
- p.342
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- His brawny back and ample breast he shows
- Page No:
- p.342
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- We met in fight I know him to my cost
- Page No:
- p.342
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O could I flow like thee and make thy stream
- Page No:
- p.343
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- Success the mark no mortal wit
- Page No:
- p.343
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Thy even thoughts with so much plainness flow
- Page No:
- p.343
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Virtue without success
- Page No:
- p.343
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- His candid style like a clean stream does slide
- Page No:
- p.343
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- What's he who with contracted brow
- Page No:
- p.344
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- O thou that with surpassing glory crowned
- Page No:
- p.344
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The golden sun in splendour likest heaven
- Page No:
- pp.344-345
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- That gloomy outisde like a rusty chest
- Page No:
- p.344
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The sun is in the Lion mounted high
- Page No:
- p.344
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The sun with flaming arrows pierced the flood
- Page No:
- p.344
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The parting sun
- Page No:
- p.345
- Poem Title:
- Sun-Set.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The sun scarce risen
- Page No:
- p.345
- Poem Title:
- Sun-Rising.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- As the black swallow near the palace plies
- Page No:
- p.345
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Like a long troop of snowy swans on high
- Page No:
- p.345
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The swans that fail along the silver flood
- Page No:
- p.345
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Twelve swans behold in beauteous order move
- Page No:
- p.345
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- It was the time when witty poets tell
- Page No:
- p.345
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- O soft as blossoms and yet sweeter far
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Sweeter than buds unfolded in a shower
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dav.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Her eyes are closed and though with her tis night
- Page No:
- pp.346-347
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- How.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- Swift as exploded lightning from the skies
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- I've seen him swifter run than starting hinds
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Sweet as the breath of morn
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Swift as a shooting star that thwarts the night
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- My sight grows dim and every object dances
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Asabel swifter than the northern wind
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Sweet as lovers freshest kisses
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Swift as the journeys of the sight
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- He therefore sent out all his senses
- Page No:
- p.347
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- His puissant sword unto his side
- Page No:
- p.347
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Then Ralpho gently raised the knight
- Page No:
- p.347
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- With huge two-handed sway
- Page No:
- p.347
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- With his refulgent sword he hewed his way
- Page No:
- p.347
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I found her on the floor
- Page No:
- p.348
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Twould raise your pity but to see the tears
- Page No:
- p.348
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- My grateful thoughts so throng to get abroad
- Page No:
- p.348
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Oldh.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- Believe these tears which from my wounded heart
- Page No:
- p.348
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Let my tears thank you for I cannot speak
- Page No:
- p.348
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Mine is a grief of fury not despair
- Page No:
- p.348
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- She acts the jealous and at will she cries
- Page No:
- p.348
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tears not squeezed by art
- Page No:
- p.348
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I'll teach him a receipt to make
- Page No:
- p.348
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- I have been studying how to compare
- Page No:
- pp.349-350
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Thoughts succeed thoughts like restless troubled waves
- Page No:
- p.349
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- How.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- Restless thoughts that like a deadly swarm
- Page No:
- p.349
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- O wretched man whose too too busy thoughts
- Page No:
- p.349
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Wild hurrying thoughts
- Page No:
- p.350
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- South.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Southerne
- First Line:
- The furious infant's born and speaks and dies
- Page No:
- p.350
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cre. Lucr.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Thus my thoughts are are tired
- Page No:
- p.350
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Vest. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- The thunder now
- Page No:
- p.350
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage
- Page No:
- p.350
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- A beam of thought came glancing to my soul
- Page No:
- p.350
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- It comes like thunder grumbling in a cloud
- Page No:
- p.350
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The skies are hushed no grumbling thunders roll
- Page No:
- p.350
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So when a Scythian tiger gazing round
- Page No:
- pp.350-351
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Time of itself is nothing but from thought
- Page No:
- p.351
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cre. Lucr.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Thus as a tiger who by chance has spied
- Page No:
- p.351
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- For nature knows
- Page No:
- p.351
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Time is the effect of motion born a twin
- Page No:
- p.351
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So when a toad squat on a border spies
- Page No:
- p.352
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Time hastes away
- Page No:
- p.352
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Oldh.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- As when a torrent rolls with rapid force
- Page No:
- p.352
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As young striplings whip the top for sport
- Page No:
- p.352
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The whirling top they whip
- Page No:
- p.352
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thy teeth devouring time thine envious age
- Page No:
- p.352
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Twas not the spawn of such as these
- Page No:
- p.353
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Rosc.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Part to the groves and woody hills repair
- Page No:
- p.353
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- The country rings around with loud alarms
- Page No:
- p.353
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The trees were unctuous fir
- Page No:
- pp.353-354
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus when two neighbouring torrents rush from high
- Page No:
- p.353
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He trusts us both mark that shall we betray him
- Page No:
- pp.354-355
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- None so renowned
- Page No:
- p.354
- Poem Title:
- Trumpeter.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The sprightly trumpets from afar
- Page No:
- p.354
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The trumpets terribly from far
- Page No:
- p.354
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- By the loud trumpet that our courage aids
- Page No:
- p.354
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Fair hand that can on virgin paper write
- Page No:
- p.354
- Poem Title:
- On a Tree cut in Paper.
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- When blended shades and light
- Page No:
- p.355
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Proud impatient | Of ought superior even of heaven that made him
- Page No:
- pp.355-356
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- I can forgive
- Page No:
- p.355
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Delight of human kind and gods above
- Page No:
- pp.356-357
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Lucr.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Creator Venus genial power of love
- Page No:
- pp.357-358
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In Venus' temple on the sides were seen
- Page No:
- pp.358-359
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Not the soft whispers of the southern wind
- Page No:
- p.359
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Well sounding verses are the charms we use
- Page No:
- p.359
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Not winds to voyagers at sea
- Page No:
- pp.359-360
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- There is a tide in the affairs of men
- Page No:
- p.360
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Short is the uncertain reign and pomp of mortal pride
- Page No:
- p.360
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- How.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- Good unexpected evil unforeseen
- Page No:
- p.360
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He various changes of the world had known
- Page No:
- pp.360-361
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What god alas will caution be
- Page No:
- p.360
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Once like a vine I flourished and was young
- Page No:
- p.361
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- They led the vine
- Page No:
- p.361
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- A warrior dame
- Page No:
- pp.361-362
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The aspiring vines
- Page No:
- p.361
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Our life is short but to extend that span
- Page No:
- p.362
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- How few are virtuous when reward's away
- Page No:
- p.362
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- How vain is virtue which directs our ways
- Page No:
- p.362
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- If when a crown and mistress are in place
- Page No:
- p.362
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Virtue and vice are never in one soul
- Page No:
- p.362
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Wouldst thou to honours and preferments climb
- Page No:
- p.362
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Virtue the noble cause for which you're made
- Page No:
- p.362
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Step. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- As when the sea breaks over its bounds
- Page No:
- p.363
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- In Ausonian land
- Page No:
- p.363
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- And few usurpers to the shades descend
- Page No:
- p.363
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Birthright's a vulgar road to kingly sway
- Page No:
- p.363
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Dare to be great without a guilty crown
- Page No:
- p.363
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Famine is in thy cheeks
- Page No:
- p.364
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Oh we must change the scene
- Page No:
- pp.364-365
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Me by the heel he drew
- Page No:
- p.364
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Hom.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Want is a bitter and a hateful good
- Page No:
- p.364
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Want is the scorn of every wealthy fool
- Page No:
- p.364
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- An iron harvest on the field appears
- Page No:
- p.365
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Lord what an amorous thing is want
- Page No:
- p.365
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Now impious arms from every part resound
- Page No:
- p.365
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- It was the time | When creeping murmur and the poring dark
- Page No:
- p.366
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- The gloomy throngs look terrible from afar
- Page No:
- p.366
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- The fight grows hot the whole war's now at work
- Page No:
- p.366
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- All in a moment rose
- Page No:
- p.366
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Advancing in a line they couch their spears
- Page No:
- p.366
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now dying groans are heard the fields are strewed
- Page No:
- pp.366-367
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The fields | Are bright with flaming swords and brazen shields
- Page No:
- p.366
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A shower of tears flowed down her lovely face
- Page No:
- p.367
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- The dreadful business of the war is over
- Page No:
- p.367
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Row.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- She silently a gentle tear let fall
- Page No:
- p.367
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Her brimful eyes that ready stood
- Page No:
- p.367
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So swelling surges with a thundering roar
- Page No:
- p.367
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So through a watery cloud
- Page No:
- p.367
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With head declined
- Page No:
- pp.367-368
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Over her Adonis so
- Page No:
- p.367
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- His eyes | Although unused unto the melting mood
- Page No:
- p.368
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- What hunt a wife | On the dull soil sure a staunch husband
- Page No:
- pp.368-369
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Who loves to hear of wife
- Page No:
- p.368
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Compassion quelled
- Page No:
- p.368
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- In Palamon a manly grief appears
- Page No:
- p.368
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Look emperor this is no common dew
- Page No:
- p.368
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then setting free a sigh from her fair eyes
- Page No:
- p.368
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Welcome as kindly showers to long parched earth
- Page No:
- p.368
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Welcome as the light
- Page No:
- p.368
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Wives like good subjects who to tryants bow
- Page No:
- p.369
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sedl.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- First Line:
- Nor were those blustering brethren left at large
- Page No:
- pp.369-370
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Ovid.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus raged the goddess and with fury fraught
- Page No:
- p.369
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- No grass the fields no leaves the forests wear
- Page No:
- pp.370-371
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus when the rival winds their quarrel try
- Page No:
- p.370
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When naked hills in frozen armour stand
- Page No:
- p.371
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold yon mountain's hoary height
- Page No:
- p.371
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then when the fleecy skies new clothe the wood
- Page No:
- p.371
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Wisdom's an evenness of soul
- Page No:
- pp.371-372
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Wisdom's too froward to let any find
- Page No:
- p.371
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Beau.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Beaumont
- First Line:
- Look round the habitable world how few
- Page No:
- p.372
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So blind we are our wishes are so vain
- Page No:
- p.372
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What then remains are we deprived of will
- Page No:
- p.372
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A thousand different shapes it wears
- Page No:
- pp.372-373
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Wit like beauty triumphs over the heart
- Page No:
- p.373
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Unequally th'impartial hand of heaven
- Page No:
- p.373
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Wit like tierce claret when it begins to pall
- Page No:
- p.373
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Wit like a luxuriant vine
- Page No:
- p.373
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- What are these | So withered and so wild in their attire
- Page No:
- pp.374-375
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Great wits are sure to madness near allied
- Page No:
- p.374
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Renowned for magic arts her charms unbind
- Page No:
- p.375
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Smeared with these powerful juices on the plain
- Page No:
- p.375
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I saw Canidia here her feet were bare
- Page No:
- pp.375-376
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Staff. Hor.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Stafford
- First Line:
- But see they're gone
- Page No:
- p.376
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- As when a wolf pinched by nocturnal cold
- Page No:
- pp.376-377
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Not uglier follow the night hag when called
- Page No:
- p.376
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- So roams the nightly wolf about the fold
- Page No:
- p.376
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As when a prowling wolf
- Page No:
- p.377
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- As hungry wolves with raging appetite
- Page No:
- p.377
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As when a wolf has torn a bullock's hide
- Page No:
- p.377
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So seizes the grim wolf the tender lamb
- Page No:
- p.377
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The tyrant in a fright for shelter gains
- Page No:
- p.377
- Poem Title:
- Lycaon turned into a Wolf.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Such rage inflames the wolf's wild heart and eyes
- Page No:
- p.377
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Thou'rt woman a true copy of the first
- Page No:
- p.378
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Out of my sight thou serpent that name best
- Page No:
- p.378
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Ah traitress ah ingrate ah faithless mind
- Page No:
- pp.378-379
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oh virtue virtue what art thou become
- Page No:
- p.378
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The cave of mars was dressed with mossy greens
- Page No:
- p.378
- Poem Title:
- Romulus and Remus nursed by a Wolf.
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Henceforth not name a woman
- Page No:
- p.379
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- I'd leave the world for him that hates a woman
- Page No:
- pp.379-380
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- The sex was first in mockery of us made
- Page No:
- p.379
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- For tis in vain to think to guess
- Page No:
- p.379
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- O women women women all the gods
- Page No:
- p.379
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- O woman lovely woman nature made you
- Page No:
- p.380
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Otw.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- But I forget myself and rove
- Page No:
- p.380
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Fools we must have or else we cannot sway
- Page No:
- pp.380-381
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Our thoughtless sex is caught by outward form
- Page No:
- p.380
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Under how hard a fate are women born
- Page No:
- p.380
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Women are governed by a stubborn fate
- Page No:
- p.380
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- For women you know seldom fail
- Page No:
- p.381
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- They wound like Parthians while they fly
- Page No:
- p.381
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Women to the brave an easy prey
- Page No:
- p.381
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- For women born to be controlled
- Page No:
- p.381
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Scars of honour seamed his manly face
- Page No:
- p.382
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- With many wounds she made her bosom gay
- Page No:
- p.382
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- The world's a wood in which all lose their way
- Page No:
- p.382
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Words with the leaves of trees resemblance hold
- Page No:
- p.382
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Old. Hor.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- His words replete with guile
- Page No:
- p.382
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- In her ears the sound
- Page No:
- p.382
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- His face and limbs were one continued wound
- Page No:
- p.382
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The yawning wound
- Page No:
- p.382
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Words are but the pictures of our thoughts
- Page No:
- p.382
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The world's a labyrinth where unguided men
- Page No:
- p.382
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Beau.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Beaumont
- First Line:
- Like dumb mouths his wounds
- Page No:
- p.383
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Look who comes here a grave unto a soul
- Page No:
- p.383
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- They made bare their breasts
- Page No:
- p.383
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Old as I am and quenched with scars and sorrows
- Page No:
- p.383
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roch.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Perceivest thou not the process of the year
- Page No:
- p.383
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The spring of life the bloom of gaudy years
- Page No:
- p.384
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Youth does a thousand pleasures bring
- Page No:
- p.384
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Congr.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- The down of manhood on his face appears
- Page No:
- p.384
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- For zeal's a dreadful termagant
- Page No:
- p.384
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- And confidence is sin when mixed with zeal
- Page No:
- p.384
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In youth alone unhappy mortals live
- Page No:
- p.384
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Then past a boy the callow down began
- Page No:
- p.384
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Zeal is the pious madness of the mind
- Page No:
- p.384
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Grief seldom joined with blooming youth is seen
- Page No:
- p.384
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Beau.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Beaumont
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