The Oxford Sausage: Or, Select Poetical Pieces, Written by the Most Celebrated Wits of the University of OxfordS. Watson, 1766 - 190 pages |
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... give you all fair Play , Smoak only when ' tis Market - Day . B And Mr. TYRRELL , Cook , in the High - ftreet , Oxford , having a laudable Design of obliging the University with Mutton Pies twice a week ; this Advertisement appeared ...
... give you all fair Play , Smoak only when ' tis Market - Day . B And Mr. TYRRELL , Cook , in the High - ftreet , Oxford , having a laudable Design of obliging the University with Mutton Pies twice a week ; this Advertisement appeared ...
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... gives The wanted Truft , and WINTER ticks no more . Thus ADAM , exil'd from the beauteous Scenes Of Eden griev'd , no more in fragrant Bow'r On Fruits divine to feaft , fresh Shade and Vale No more to vifit , or vine - mantled Grot ...
... gives The wanted Truft , and WINTER ticks no more . Thus ADAM , exil'd from the beauteous Scenes Of Eden griev'd , no more in fragrant Bow'r On Fruits divine to feaft , fresh Shade and Vale No more to vifit , or vine - mantled Grot ...
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... give the Strain that Madness moves , Till every starting Senfe approves ! * What felt the Gallic Traveller , When far in Arab - defert drear , + Gieruf , Liberat . b . 14 . ⚫ I do not remember that any poetical Ufe has been made of ...
... give the Strain that Madness moves , Till every starting Senfe approves ! * What felt the Gallic Traveller , When far in Arab - defert drear , + Gieruf , Liberat . b . 14 . ⚫ I do not remember that any poetical Ufe has been made of ...
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... give my reasons , tho ' I break my neck- ? — And what's the question if it shines or rains , Whether ' tis twelve or ... gives him nothing - but advice too late , Retrench , or rather mortgage your Estate . I can I can advance the Sum ...
... give my reasons , tho ' I break my neck- ? — And what's the question if it shines or rains , Whether ' tis twelve or ... gives him nothing - but advice too late , Retrench , or rather mortgage your Estate . I can I can advance the Sum ...
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... give his Foe a paultry Place at Court . The Dupe for ev'ry royal Birth - day buys New Horses , Coaches , Cloaths , and Liveries Plies at the Levee , and distinguish'd there Lives on the Royal Whisper for a Year ; His Wenches fhine in ...
... give his Foe a paultry Place at Court . The Dupe for ev'ry royal Birth - day buys New Horses , Coaches , Cloaths , and Liveries Plies at the Levee , and distinguish'd there Lives on the Royal Whisper for a Year ; His Wenches fhine in ...
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Page 39 - HAPPY the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters...
Page 57 - When agen the Cricket's gay (Little Cricket, full of Play) Can afford his Tube to feed With the fragrant Indian weed : Pleasure for a Nose divine, Incense of the God of Wine. Happy thrice, and thrice agen, Happiest he of happy Men.
Page 39 - Wisheth her health, and joy, and equal love. Meanwhile, he smokes, and laughs at merry tale, Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. But I, whom griping penury surrounds, And Hunger, sure attendant upon Want, With scanty offals, and small acid tiff, (Wretched repast!) my meagre corpse sustain: Then solitary walk, or doze at home...
Page 176 - For oh ! the boasted privilege how dear, How great the pride, to gain a Jockey's ear ! — See, like a routed...
Page 62 - Come, jovial pipe, and bring along Midnight revelry and song ; The merry catch, the madrigal, That echoes sweet in city hall ; The parson's pun, the smutty tale Of country justice o'er his ale.
Page 33 - Reports attraft the Lawyer's parting Eyes, Novels Lord Fopling and Sir Plume require; For Songs and Plays the Voice of Beauty cries, And Senfe and Nature Grandifon defire.
Page 23 - Up yon green slope, of hazels trim, An avenue so cool and dim, Shall to an arbour at the end, In spite of gout, entice a friend. My predecessor lov'd devotion — But of a garden had no notion.
Page 43 - Of loving friend delights ; distressed, forlorn, Amidst the horrors of the tedious night, Darkling I sigh, and feed with dismal thoughts My anxious mind ; or sometimes mournful verse Indite, and sing of groves and myrtle shades, Or desperate lady near a purling stream, Or lover pendent on a willow-tree.
Page 48 - Not unexperienced ; while the tedious toil Slides unregarded. Let the tender swain Each morn regale on nerve-relaxing tea, Companion meet of languor-loving nymph: Be mine each morn with eager appetite And hunger undissembled, to repair To friendly buttery; there on smoking crust And foaming Ale to banquet unrestrain'd, Material breakfast!
Page 24 - Rides a sleek mare with purple housing, To share the monthly club's carousing ; Of Oxford pranks facetious tells, And — but on Sundays — hears no bells ; Sends presents of his choicest fruit...