Intercepted Letters, Or, The Twopenny Post-bag: To which are Added, Trifles ReprintedPoems satirizing the Regent (later King George IV of Great Britain) and members of the aristocracy. |
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... of date , ) No nags ever made such a stir in the State ! * This young Lady , who is a Roman Catholic , has lately made a present of some beautiful Ponies to the Pr - nc - ss . B Lord ELD - N first heard - and as instantly.
... of date , ) No nags ever made such a stir in the State ! * This young Lady , who is a Roman Catholic , has lately made a present of some beautiful Ponies to the Pr - nc - ss . B Lord ELD - N first heard - and as instantly.
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To which are Added, Trifles Reprinted Thomas Moore. Lord ELD - N first heard - and as instantly pray'd he To God and his King - that a Popish young Lady ( For though you've bright eyes and twelve thousand a year , It is still but too ...
To which are Added, Trifles Reprinted Thomas Moore. Lord ELD - N first heard - and as instantly pray'd he To God and his King - that a Popish young Lady ( For though you've bright eyes and twelve thousand a year , It is still but too ...
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... Lord H - RR - BY , hoping that no one imputes To the Court any fancy to persecute brutes , Protests , on the word of himself and his cronies , That had these said creatures been Asses , not Ponies , The Court would have started no sort ...
... Lord H - RR - BY , hoping that no one imputes To the Court any fancy to persecute brutes , Protests , on the word of himself and his cronies , That had these said creatures been Asses , not Ponies , The Court would have started no sort ...
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... Lord C - STL - R - GH- ) " To make them quite harmless the only true way , " Is ( as certain Chief - Justices do with their wives ) " To flog them within half an inch of their lives — " If they've any bad Irish blood lurking about ...
... Lord C - STL - R - GH- ) " To make them quite harmless the only true way , " Is ( as certain Chief - Justices do with their wives ) " To flog them within half an inch of their lives — " If they've any bad Irish blood lurking about ...
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... Lord C -- STL - R - GH , having so often shone In the fettering line , is to buckle them on . I shall drive to your door in these Vetos some day , But , at present , adieu ! -- I must hurry away To go see my Mamma , as I'm suffer'd to ...
... Lord C -- STL - R - GH , having so often shone In the fettering line , is to buckle them on . I shall drive to your door in these Vetos some day , But , at present , adieu ! -- I must hurry away To go see my Mamma , as I'm suffer'd to ...
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ANACREONTIC Antediluvian Author beautiful Book Bound bring Catholic chalk Chancellor Colonel Curaçoa dear delight Derry dinner dish dream dress ELD-N England's English ENGLISH LANGUAGE EPIGRAM Epistle ev'n expeditis feather Fête fishes fragments French FRENCH LANGUAGE gentle German German Language GRAMMAR Grand half hand heart Horace hour House Hydaspes INTERCEPTED LETTERS Irish Ispahan JACK and JILL KING CRACK Lady Language lately learn'd London look Lord Lordship Manetho Ministers Muse muzzle never night Nutmeg o'er old Cuckoo once OVID Papa papers Papists Ponies Pope Post-Bag PR-NC-SS pray'd Princes PRINCESS of WALES quæ Rome Royal SC-TT sent Shiites side snaffle Speech spout Sunnites sure sweet t'other Tailor thee there's things thou thought Tools Tradesmen's Bills TRIFLES twas twill Twopenny Twould Walcheren whate'er whiskers whole write Y-RM-TH young your's
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Page 65 - Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood ! EPIGRAM.
Page 46 - PE, in whisker'd state, Before me at his breakfast sate : On one side lay unread Petitions, On t'other, Hints from five Physicians — Here tradesmen's bills, official papers Notes from my Lady, drams for vapours — There plans of saddles, tea and toast, Death-warrants and the Morning-Post.
Page 53 - Continent still, And, with nothing at home but starvation and riot, Find Lisbon in bread, and keep Sicily quiet. I am proud to declare I have no predilections...
Page 35 - Having quitted the Borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long Quarto stages, to Town ; And beginning with ROKEBY (the job's sure to pay) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him ; Who, by means of quick proofs — no revises — long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — TT approaches — Indeed, ifour Pegasus be not curst shabby, He'll reach, without found'ring,...
Page 76 - Hydaspes. namque me silva lupus in Sabina, dum meam canto Lalagen et ultra terminum curis vagor expeditis, fugit inermem.
Page 78 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 53 - NG into fashion. This is all I can lay to my conscience at present, When such is my temper, so neutral, so pleasant, So royally free from all troublesome feelings, So little encumber'd by faith in my dealings...
Page 80 - Die when you will, you need not wear At Heaven's Court a form more fair Than Beauty here on earth has given ; Keep but the lovely looks we see — • The voice we hear — and you will be An angel ready-made for Heaven ! * The words addressed by Lord Herbert of Cherbury to the beautiful Nun at Murano.
Page 35 - Scott, you must know, (Who, we're sorry to say it, now works for the Row\ Having quitted the borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long quarto stages, to town ; And beginning with Rokeby (the job's sure to pay) Means to do all the gentlemen's seats on the way. Now, the scheme is (though none of...
Page 49 - House had long settled the question, I thought it but decent, between me and you, That the two other Houses should settle it too. I need not remind you how cursedly bad Our affairs were all looking, when father went mad ; A strait waistcoat on him, and restrictions on me, A more limited monarchy could not well be.