Carmen Seculare. For the Year 1700. To The King (Matthew Prior Poems)
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
In one dark age, beneath a single hand,Thus rose an empire in the savage land.Her golden seats, with following years, ...
This Monument, consign'd to latest Times,Stands to perpetuate Wolsey's daring Crimes;Who long, by wicked Arts, of Power possess'd,(The Lust of ...
Are you, like me, a peevish brat,With feelings extra-fine?Are you disposed to whip the catWhen misadventure lays your flat?Then paste ...
In the County of Norfolk, that Paradise Land,Whose Riches and Power doth all Europe command,There stands a great House (and ...
How vain, Sir Knight, is thy affected Rage,That Thou and Wolsey in the self--same PageStand charg'd alike?--The Cardinal, 'tis true,Had ...
What strange Resemblance can your Fancy see'Twixt W---'s Fame and Wolsey's Infamy?In vain through Greece and Italy you roam,In vain ...
No Stone was dug from under Ground,That Wolsey's Infamy display'd;Nor the least Likeness can be foundBetween the Living and the ...
'The witches' device for the equitable distributionof the liquor consisted in the constructionof tens of thousands of stopcocks and bungswhich ...
Lost! lost! lost!The famed and gracious Anne is no more,Her sceptre broken, now her power is o'er,Ye judges, who, to-day ...
There is no sense, that I should write a line On such a ...
Ho! says the Nation's purse is lean, Who fears for claim or bond or debt, When all the glories that ...
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