Contentment; Or Hints To Servants On The Present Scarcity (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
Oh! hideous fiend, of form uncouth, With jaundic'd eye, and canker'd tooth, Fell Envy, why dost thou profane The labours ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. A Public Breakfast. Motives for the same.--A List of the ...
Keen was the blast, and bleak the morn, When Lucy took her way, To seek the wretch, whose perjur'd vows ...
Mr. Inkle to Mrs. Dinah Inkle, at Glocester Containing A slight Sketch of a travel'd Man--Continuation of the Ball--An Affair ...
. Had it pleas'd him, from whom all wisdom flows, Him, who each good, each perfect gift bestows, With knowledge ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at--- Hall, North.Mr. B---n---r---d's Reflections on his Arrival at Bath.--The Case of Himself and ...
I am a decay'd macaroni, My lodging's up three pair of stairs; My cheeks are grown wondrously bony, And grey, ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. Mr. B---n---r---d goes to the Rooms. His Opinion of Gaming. ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. Serious Reflections of Mr. B---n---r---d.--His Bill of Expences.-- The Distresses ...
Lo! where beside yon verdant plain Sweet Avon winds his way, And smiling laves thy rich demain, Sir Peter Rivers ...
With every plague that can conspire To curse a wretched country squire, Six hundred sheep on fields at Kneeton Starv'd ...
Draper, my dear and worthy Friend, Who read'st with candour all I send; Say, what employment pleases best, Since from ...
Parent supreme! whose all discerning mind Appoints the various portions of mankind, On me, my country, and on all, bestow ...
From wealth, from honours, and from courts remov'd, I've kept the silent path my genius lov'd, And pitied those whom ...
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