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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... wanton Wiles That love to live within the one - curl'd Scratch , With Fun , and all the Family of Smiles . Safe Safe in thy Privilege , near Ifis ' Brook , ( 21 ) Ode to a Grizzle Wig; by a Gentleman had left off his Bob, 'bex P.
... wanton Wiles That love to live within the one - curl'd Scratch , With Fun , and all the Family of Smiles . Safe Safe in thy Privilege , near Ifis ' Brook , ( 21 ) Ode to a Grizzle Wig; by a Gentleman had left off his Bob, 'bex P.
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... live indeed like petty Kings : " But who can bear to wafte his whole Age Amid the Dulness of a College , " Debarr'd the common Joys of Life , " And that prime Bliss a loving Wife ! " O ! what's a Table richly spread " Without a Woman at ...
... live indeed like petty Kings : " But who can bear to wafte his whole Age Amid the Dulness of a College , " Debarr'd the common Joys of Life , " And that prime Bliss a loving Wife ! " O ! what's a Table richly spread " Without a Woman at ...
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... live , from Pleasure quite debarr'd , Nor tafte the Fruits that the Sun's genial Rays Mature , John - Apple , nor the downy Peach ; Nor Walnut in rough - furrow'd Coat fecure , D 2 Nor Nor Medlar - Fruit , delicious in Decay ...
... live , from Pleasure quite debarr'd , Nor tafte the Fruits that the Sun's genial Rays Mature , John - Apple , nor the downy Peach ; Nor Walnut in rough - furrow'd Coat fecure , D 2 Nor Nor Medlar - Fruit , delicious in Decay ...
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... live , my own , Doze o'er a Pipe , whofe Vapour bland In fweet Oblivion lulls the Land , Of all which at Vienna paffes , As ignorant as✶✶✶ Brass is : And fcorning rafcals to carefs , Extoll the Days of good Queen BESS , E 3 When When ...
... live , my own , Doze o'er a Pipe , whofe Vapour bland In fweet Oblivion lulls the Land , Of all which at Vienna paffes , As ignorant as✶✶✶ Brass is : And fcorning rafcals to carefs , Extoll the Days of good Queen BESS , E 3 When When ...
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... Lives on the Royal Whisper for a Year ; His Wenches fhine in Bruffels and Brocade ; And now the Wretch , ridiculously mad , Draws on his Banker , mortgages and fails , Then to the Country runs away , from Jails : There ruin'd by the ...
... Lives on the Royal Whisper for a Year ; His Wenches fhine in Bruffels and Brocade ; And now the Wretch , ridiculously mad , Draws on his Banker , mortgages and fails , Then to the Country runs away , from Jails : There ruin'd by the ...
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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...
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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...