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A trinitarian to a Johnian said        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 33v 
About this Sir Isaac folks made a great pother        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 35v 
Alas! my good friends, all the talents are gone        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 3 
And was not Pharaoh a pitiful rascal        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 11 
Between Adam and me the great difference is        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 11 
Britannia's boast, her glory and her pride        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 1v 
Charming woman can her converts make        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 1 
Come, Isaac, come, my boy, and let me see        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 33 
Doctor, your epigram is true        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 2v 
Each rival now may his Sir Isaac boast        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 34 
For deepest woes old Harpax scorns to feel        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 2 
For want of practice or for want of skill        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 11v 
From Cowper's Task, all Cooper's task succeed        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 1v 
George Brown is grown quite grave, they say        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 3v 
Had Cain been a Scot God would have altered his doom        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 2 
Had James or John or Richard been your name        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 34v 
Here lies poor Johnson reader, have a care        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 24v 
Here restsand let no saucy knave        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 24 
I sing of a tutor renowned        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 13 
If antiquity gives to each peerage its station        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 3 
In day of frolic, mirth, and fun        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 2v 
In vain are musty morals taught in schools        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 1 
Isaac a doctor of no vulgar name        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 36 
Lemona was daughter of Hudda the brave        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 16 
Long to her sister's scientific fame        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 34 
Mr. Coke, Mr. Coke        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 20v 
Nature's chief gifts unequally are carved        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 1 
Not a lous had he got or guinea or note        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 48v 
Not a sou had he got, or guinea or note        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 48v 
Oh, welcome the day when our Wodehouse's cause        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 18v 
On Cannock when the sun was low        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 18 
Our bishops oft pose us to know who they are        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 2v 
Poor W-dh-m accustomed to shuffle and cut        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 21 
Pope called Newton an ape, and the thought was quite new        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 34v 
Quoth a Johnian professor beware of our knight        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 33v 
St. John's long owed Trin: Coll: a spite        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 35v 
Says Burke, The age of chivalry is gone!        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 33v 
Shelley styles his new poem Prometheus Unbound        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 25v 
Some countries vaunt themselves in pies        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 6v 
Some whim or fancy pleases every age        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 1v 
Start not! nor deem my spirit fled        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 19v 
That green is a natural color is true        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 3v 
The French have taste in all they do        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 23v 
The huge, huge globe has enough to do (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 17v 
The Lord of Lancaster, when late I came from it        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 2v 
The old Whig club is meeting, Duke        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 25 
The young May moon is beaming, love        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 25 
This bold relief a finished work        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 3 
Though marriage by most people's reckon'd a curse        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 2 
Tis said that Farmer Ploughshare, though no ninny        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 35v 
To Cowper's Task see Cowper's Task succeed        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 1v 
Two words to a bargain, I'll propose it        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 23v 
What storms have rent the air! what earthquakes heaved        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 35 
What, what? Is Isaac dubbed a knight        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 33 
When Adam slept from him his Eve arose        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 3 
When by the Almighty's dread command  Canning, George      Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 12 
When graceful Sir Isaac was late made a knight        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 34 
When Pennington for female ills indites        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 33 
When Sir Isaac benighted came down here from court        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 35 
When the knight of St. John's from St. James's came down        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 35 
Where the four streams of Medway glide        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 2 
Who many a sturdy oak has laid along  Piozzi, Hester Thrale      Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 5 
Why, Lambton, big with self-pretense        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 11 
Woman's our gatewild and unlawful flames        Harvard  MS Eng 569.63  f. 1