The Clyster (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;To found our tales on what we can rely;Th' experiment repeatedly I've made,And ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;To found our tales on what we can rely;Th' experiment repeatedly I've made,And ...
You bid me, Ned, describe the placeWhere I, one of the rhyming race,Pursue my studies con amore,And wanton with the ...
LADY, I loved you all last year,How honestly and well --Alas! would weary you to hear,And torture me to tell;I ...
No longer, 0 scholars, shall PlautusBe taught us.No more shall professors be partialTo Martial.No ninnyWill stop playing "shinney"For Pliny.Not even ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
Awake, my muse, ye goodly sights among,The land of Boone and Kenton claims my song.Thro' other scenes our lovers take ...
Law! what is law? The wise and sage, Of every clime and every age, In this most cordially unite, That ...
ON HIS DISCOVERY OF THE LOST BOOKS OF CICERO,"DE REPUBLICA." Italian bold, why wilt thou never cease The fathers from ...
With tears I leave these academic bowers, And cease to cull the scientific flowers; With tears I hail the fair ...
Nat dremyd I in ye mount of pernaso, ne dranke I nevar at pegases welle, the pale pirus saw ...
Tentanda via est, etc. What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age ...
Seneca-Solon-Caesar or Cicero-Take any old and noble name you know,Denounce the dead, spray poison in the home-You still will not ...
There lived in ancient Scribbletown a wise old writer-man, Whose name was Homer Cicero Demosthenes McCann. He'd written treatises and ...
THE head and hands of murdered Cicero,Above his seat high in the Forum hung,Drew jeers and burning tears. When on ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
Bolt and bar the shutter, For the foul winds blow: Our minds are at their best this night, And I ...
This is the greatest thing in North America: Europe is the greatest thing in North America! High in the sky, ...
As one put drunk into the Packet-boat, Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't. But was amaz'd on ...
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