Upon the Same. (Epigram On Dr. Crassus) (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Unform'd in Nature's Shop, while Crassus lay,A cumbrous Heap of coarse neglected Clay,Pray, Madam, says the Foreman of the Trade,What ...
Unform'd in Nature's Shop, while Crassus lay,A cumbrous Heap of coarse neglected Clay,Pray, Madam, says the Foreman of the Trade,What ...
Last Week in this Town was a furious Debate,Between two great Masters and Champions of State;Dread Havock ensued and most ...
Crassus one Evening (as 'tis oft his Doom)Was made the publick Butt of all the Room,Backside and foreside upon him ...
As from the Honeycomb one Day,Young Cupid filch'd the Sweets away,Intent on the felonious Wrong,A watchful Bee his Fingers stung.Impatient ...
Young Cloe, frolicksome and gay,Was reading, once upon a Day,How Jove, as Ovid's Lines record(And Ladies will take Ovid's Word)Us'd ...
In vain, Orinda on my Aid,And weaker Judgment you rely;Too rashly Fair--one, you perswadeA Mortal to correct the Sky.To me, ...
In Oxford Crouds of stupid Bards are found,Where of all Places bright ones should abound;Dull plodding Blockheads, without Sense or ...
Caelia to many does the Venus seem,Of all the reigning Nymphs near Isis Stream,The Toast of Coxcombs, and the Poet's ...
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 ...
In vain, my gentle Charmer, you inquireHow many thousand Kisses I desire;Say first, how many Sands the Shores contain,And Drop ...
Crassus looks grave and learned to the Eye,His stiff Scarf rustles as he passes by;Mark that wise Shrug, that deep ...
Crassus, the Poet's and the Villain's Tool,Just Wise enough to think himself a Fool,Swears that in each Lampoon he sees ...
Can Indignation so much Rage infuse?And dwells there then such Malice in a Muse?The sacred Nine, genteel and debonair,Scorn to ...
Stuck upon the School Walls in OXFORD.If Fame says true, on this auspicious MornA Beggar, Coward, and a Fool was ...
Before her Husband, Lesbia calls me Names,And at the Lewdness of the Town exclaims;This tickles the poor Cuckold to the ...
XXIV.The Pamphleteers have plunder'd many Pockets, not overcharg'd with Money.Two--penny Works (when Hawkers cry 'em)What Man on Earth can chuse ...
Cloe, as soon as she has plaid the Whore,Repents the Deed, and vows to do't no more;With the next Man ...
Tories and Whigs, with mutual selfish Pride,In all their Quarrels for themselves decide,Both Parties their own Principles prefer,And in their ...
While Strephon's Verse, with honest Rage reprovesFat Caelia's Pride, and Tyrrel's guilty Loves:Caelia confronted, haughty Airs forgets,And loaded with her ...
Whilst dull Projectors toil in vainTo Man the Royal Fleet,And all their Schemes contriv'd with Pain,Such Opposition meet.Methinks how easy ...
Hail, O Belinda, flatter'd Fair,With brazen Front, and colour'd Hair;With no small Prominence of Chin,A doubtful Fame, a borrow'd Skin,Whose ...
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 ...
IF He's an Author who to PaperSets Pen, and squeezes out some Sense;Then He who just can cut a Caper,A ...
Yet, dear Poll, you maySuffer J---y G---yFor to S---h you for his Play,Which has rais'd your Grandeur;Before whichYou would S---hNear ...
No Stone was dug from under Ground,That Wolsey's Infamy display'd;Nor the least Likeness can be foundBetween the Living and the ...
Be not vain of your fancy'd Success I desire you,Nor think that Lords love you, because they admire you;A Monster ...
Of the Remorae lately much hath been said,And how they retard our Fleet at Spithead;But, if I mistake not, it ...
Belinda swears by G---d her Hair is Black,And who denies it is a saucy Jack;The leaden Comb each Morning makes ...
Hail learned Age! with Pamphlets richly fraught,Some very good, and others good for nought. (Nicholas Amhurst)
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