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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill - Page 125
by John Bell - 1807
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...catch me, just at dinner-lime. Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming Son, etc. desperate charcoal round his darken' J walls All fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain, Apply to me,...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much hemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, n rhyming sts yield desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain, Apply to...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming end Will .' Or had a mitre on his head, Provided Bolingbroke...rubbish drains : Three genuine tomes of Swift's r Wilh desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? AH fly to Twit'nam, and, in humble strain, Apply...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...individual allusion than a modern poet, when, in the very same spirit, he wrote the couplet, " Some clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should ingross." for his services; for, if he were to earn nothing, his father could have had no motive for...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 125

1875 - 860 pages
...remarkable addition to the museum of literary curiosities. Poetry could ill afford to spare Clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Petrarch was a law-student — and an idle one — at Bologna. Goldini, till he turned strolling player,...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pages
...catch me— just at dinner time.7 Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...catch me— just at dinner time. Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pages
...catch me— just at dinner time.1 Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,...when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from infc and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose...giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my dainn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and...
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