The Cat-fight: A Mock Heroic Poem. Supported with Copious Extracts from Ancient and Modern Classic Authors ...1824 - 276 pàgines |
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Pàgina 8
... thee Grimalkin Tabby Tom they call , Invoking all thy Cat - alogue of names . Due classic rites shall sooth thy purring ghost , Nine victim rats , nine nestlings from the tree : Sop'd in bohea , both votive Cat - es and toast , With due ...
... thee Grimalkin Tabby Tom they call , Invoking all thy Cat - alogue of names . Due classic rites shall sooth thy purring ghost , Nine victim rats , nine nestlings from the tree : Sop'd in bohea , both votive Cat - es and toast , With due ...
Pàgina 9
... thee still , As oft beyond thy curving side Its jetty tip is seen to glide ; Till from thy centre starting far , Thou sidelong rear'st with rump in air , Erected stiff , and gait awry , Like Madam in her tantrums high : Though ne'er a ...
... thee still , As oft beyond thy curving side Its jetty tip is seen to glide ; Till from thy centre starting far , Thou sidelong rear'st with rump in air , Erected stiff , and gait awry , Like Madam in her tantrums high : Though ne'er a ...
Pàgina 10
... thee is but a clumsy wight , Who every limb and sinew strains To do what costs thee little pains , For which , I trow , the gaping crowd Requites him oft with plaudits loud ; But , stopped the while thy wanton play , Applauses , too ...
... thee is but a clumsy wight , Who every limb and sinew strains To do what costs thee little pains , For which , I trow , the gaping crowd Requites him oft with plaudits loud ; But , stopped the while thy wanton play , Applauses , too ...
Pàgina 11
... thee lets fall The rounded cork or paper ball , Nor chides thee on thy wicked watch The ends of ravell'd skein to catch . But lets thee have thy wayward will , Perplexing oft her sober skill . Even he , whose mind of gloomy bent , In ...
... thee lets fall The rounded cork or paper ball , Nor chides thee on thy wicked watch The ends of ravell'd skein to catch . But lets thee have thy wayward will , Perplexing oft her sober skill . Even he , whose mind of gloomy bent , In ...
Pàgina 12
... thee of our love ; Still be thou deem'd , by housewife fat , A comely , careful , mousing cat , Whose dish is , for the public good , Replenish'd oft with sav'ry food . Nor when thy span of life is past , Be thou to pond or dunghill ...
... thee of our love ; Still be thou deem'd , by housewife fat , A comely , careful , mousing cat , Whose dish is , for the public good , Replenish'd oft with sav'ry food . Nor when thy span of life is past , Be thou to pond or dunghill ...
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The Cat-fight: A Mock Heroic Poem. Supported with Copious Extracts from ... Ebenezer Mack Visualització completa - 1824 |
The Cat-Fight: A Mock Heroic Poem, Supported with Copious Extracts from ... Ebenezer Mack Previsualització no disponible - 2017 |
The Cat-Fight: A Mock Heroic Poem. Supported with Copious Extracts from ... Ebenezer Mack Previsualització no disponible - 2015 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 274 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore, When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Pàgina 134 - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, "I'm sorry— but we all must die!
Pàgina 162 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night, A glimmering dawn : here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Pàgina 88 - By four cherubic shapes ; four faces each Had wondrous ; as with stars, their bodies all, And wings, were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...
Pàgina 83 - Yet soon he heal'd ; for Spirits, that live throughout Vital in every part, not as frail Man In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die; Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more than can the fluid air...
Pàgina 82 - Was given him temper'd so, that neither keen Nor solid might resist that edge : it met The sword of Satan, with steep force to smite Descending, and in half cut sheer...
Pàgina 90 - Among them he arriv'd ; in his right hand Grasping ten thousand thunders, which he sent Before him, such as in their souls infix'd Plagues...
Pàgina 132 - Now the departing prayer is read: He hardly breathes. The Dean is dead. Before the passing-bell begun, The news through half the town has run. O, may we all for Death prepare! What has he left? And who's his heir?
Pàgina 274 - In yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ; The year's best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its poet's sylvan grave.
Pàgina 133 - Lady Suffolk, in the spleen, Runs laughing up to tell the queen. The queen, so gracious, mild, and good, Cries, " Is he gone ? 'tis time he should.