Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin |
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... Chanticleer ; So hight her cock , whose singing did surpass Good Heaven ! that sots and knaves should be so The merry notes of organs at the mass . •. Likeness appears in every lineament ; But likeness in thy work is eloquent . Though ...
... Chanticleer ; So hight her cock , whose singing did surpass Good Heaven ! that sots and knaves should be so The merry notes of organs at the mass . •. Likeness appears in every lineament ; But likeness in thy work is eloquent . Though ...
Page 193
... Chanticleer , Never was shrovetide cock in such a fear ; 66 66 Ev'n still I run all over in a sweat , My princely senses not recover'd yet . For such a dream I had of dire portent , That much I fear my body will be shent : It bodes I ...
... Chanticleer , Never was shrovetide cock in such a fear ; 66 66 Ev'n still I run all over in a sweat , My princely senses not recover'd yet . For such a dream I had of dire portent , That much I fear my body will be shent : It bodes I ...
Page 195
... Chanticleer went strutting out before , With royal courage , and with heart so light , As show'd he scorn'd the visions of the night . Now roaming in the yard he spurn'd the ground , And gave to Partlet the first grain he found . Then ...
... Chanticleer went strutting out before , With royal courage , and with heart so light , As show'd he scorn'd the visions of the night . Now roaming in the yard he spurn'd the ground , And gave to Partlet the first grain he found . Then ...
Page 196
... Chanticleer his wicked fancy bent : And in his high imagination cast , By stratagem to gratify his taste . The plot contriv'd , before the break of day , Saint Reynard through the hedge had made his way ; The pale was next , but proudly ...
... Chanticleer his wicked fancy bent : And in his high imagination cast , By stratagem to gratify his taste . The plot contriv'd , before the break of day , Saint Reynard through the hedge had made his way ; The pale was next , but proudly ...
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... Chanticleer ; Not Maro's Muse , who sung the mighty man , Nor Pindar's heavenly lyre , nor Horace when a swan . Your ancestors proceed from race divine : From Brennus and Belinus is your line ; Who gave to sovereign Rome such loud ...
... Chanticleer ; Not Maro's Muse , who sung the mighty man , Nor Pindar's heavenly lyre , nor Horace when a swan . Your ancestors proceed from race divine : From Brennus and Belinus is your line ; Who gave to sovereign Rome such loud ...
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