Union First Line Index of English Verse

13th-19th Century (bulk 1500-1800)


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A gold watch found on cinder whore,  Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744    Not that they're rich, but that they steal.  Yale  c.265  p. 12 
As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are,  Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745  `The description of a salamander. Out of Pliny's Nat. hist. Lib. 10. C. 7 & l. 29. c. 4 anno 1705'  Whether this ben't a salamander!  Yale  c.265   
Careful observers may foretell the hour,  Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745  `A description of a city shower. Oct. 1710'  Dead cats and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood.  Yale  c.265  p. 5 
In times of old, when time was young,  Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745  `Vanbrugh's house built from the ruins of Whitehall that was burnt written 1703'  They from the ruins build their own.  Yale  c.265  p. 14 
Now hardly here and there an hackney coach  Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745  `A description of the morning. Apl. 1709'  And schoolboys lag with satchels in their hands.  Yale  c.265  p. 4 
Of Pope and of Swift    `Wrote with a pencil on wainscot in the College parlor at the Windmill at Slough near Eton, and Windsor'  Have found out something like Horace.  Yale  c.265   
Once on a time, as old stories rehearse,  Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745  `Lady B[etty] B[erkeley] finding in the author's room some verses unfinished under writ a stanza of her own, with raillery upon him, which gave occasion to this ballad to the tune of The cutpurse Augt. 1702'  You may know by the hand it had no cloven foot. | Let censuring &c.  Yale  c.265  p. 2 
Peruse my leaves thro' ev'ry part,  Swift, Jonathan  `Verses wrote in a lady's ivory table book 1698'  He's a gold pencil tipp'd with lead.  Yale  c.265  p. 1 
Some Colinaeus praise, some Bleau,  Pope, Alexander  `Verses to be prefixed to Lintot's new miscellany'  For some folks read, but all folks sh[it].  Yale  c.265  p. 23 
That I went to warm myself in Lady Betty's chamber, because I was cold,  Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745  `To their excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland the humble petition of Frances Harris, who must starve, and die a maid if it miscarries'  Or the chaplain (for 'tis his trade) as in duty bound, shall ever pray.  Yale  c.265  p. 8 
The maid is blest that will not hear    `A version of the first psalm for the use of a young lady'  Shall rot in Drury Lane.  Yale  c.265  p. 24 
Well, 'tis as Bickerstaff has guess'd,  Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745  `A Grubstreet elegy on the supposed death of Partridge the almanac maker. 1708'  As he himself could, when above.  Yale  c.265   
When Cupid did his grandsire Jove entreat  Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745  `To Mrs. Biddy Floyd. Anno 1708'  Then call'd the happy composition Floyd.  Yale  c.265  p. 13 
When Mother Clud had rose from play  Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745  `History of V[anbrugh']s house. 1708'  A mousetrap man, chief engineer.  Yale  c.265  p. 20