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As in the park Ms. Celia shone
`On a gnat'
They murder men, and weep for flies.
Yale
c.172
p. 2
As o'er the airy Alps you pass
`To a lady with Mr. Thomson's poem upon summer, written in December'
And leave the year behind.
Yale
c.172
p. 18
Be sure if any know our town
`A tale'
Soon as Will brought him to't he died.
Yale
c.172
p. 12
Believe us dread Sir,
`Totnes address versified' [pr. 1727 (Foxon A50)]
Such princely things govern this Helen.
Yale
c.172
p. 24
Enthron'd above the spangled sky,
`A lap dog'
Who fain would change his heaven for thine.
Yale
c.172
p. 39
From the womb of the earth
`A riddle'
What a whimsical creature am I. | A minc'd pie.
Yale
c.172
p. 11
Hail celestial harmony
`An ode St. on [sic] Cecilia's Day'
From every distant part respond.
Yale
c.172
p. 31
How much, egregious Moore are we,
Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744
`On the famous Mr. Moore's worm-powder' [1716]
Which maggots was before.
Yale
c.172
p. 1
It chanc'd that Phoebus having supp'd with Jove,
`Good news for poets, or the metamorphosis of Dublin University printing house into a cook's shop'
Your labors shall succeed, and books be drest.
Yale
c.172
p. 9
It fills me much with admiration
`Mercury'
To show these gentry to their lodging.
Yale
c.172
p. 47
Juggins had all the various powers of art,
Bacon, Phanuel, 1700_1783
`A poem in praise of Tho. Juggins an Oxford cook' [d. 1719]
With equal skill to dress the feasts of gods.
Yale
c.172
p. 14
Oft by fantastic poets we are told,
`The wooden age'
Nor ever men such perfect faggots grown.
Yale
c.172
p. 30
Poets behold Miss Tabby there
`A cat'
No more than just their skins.
Yale
c.172
p. 35
See how he scuds and treads with nimble pace
`A turnspit dog'
And roast the world as thou didst meat below.
Yale
c.172
p. 37
Self a little dirty creature,
`Self'
Make it nothing but a name.
Yale
c.172
p. 21
Shall Scug the blooming nymphs' peculiar care,
`On the death of a lady's squirrel'
What brandy could not Helicon should give.
Yale
c.172
p. 27
Soft Venus, love's too anxious queen,
Philips, Ambrose, 1675_1749
`The lady's transformation into teapot' [pr. Dublin, 1725_30 (Foxon P218]
The nymph a finish'd teapot stands.
Yale
c.172
p. 6
The list'ning trees Amphion drew
`On a lady embroidering her aprons with arms and flowers'
And conquers all things like your eyes.
Yale
c.172
p. 17
The palace turn'd with ceaseless motion round
`The palace of fame imitated by Ovid and Chaucer'
Increasing as it goes from mouth to mouth.
Yale
c.172
p. 40
To you fair nymph whom I adore
`An address to a young lady'
And ask his art to win her love.
Yale
c.172
p. 3
Your wise philosophers aver
`The comparison'
Tho' Lemuel is still the same.
Yale
c.172
p. 41
