The Oxford sausage; or, Select poetical pieces, written by the most celebrated wits of the University of Oxford [ed. by T. Warton].W. Hughes, 1814 |
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agen beneath blest boast brave breast call'd charms cheer CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS PIE CHRISTOPHER PITT CORYDON crown'd cry'd dear Derry divine dreadful drink durance E'en e'er EPIGRAM ev'ry eyes fair fam'd fame fate fire fragrant friar genius gown grace grave green haply happy haste head hear heart hopes humble IMITATION Isis JOURNAL joys kings late Lord ma'em MALLARD masters merum mighty Minorca morn Muse MUTTON PIES ne'er NEWSMAN's NEWSMEN o'er once ONE-HORSE CHAIR PALLAS peace pipe PITT plain pleasure poetic poets poor pow'r praise pray pride queen rhyme rich sage SAUSAGE scarce shade shew sing smile smoke song sons soul SPLENDID SHILLING squires strain sudden fear sure swapping sweet sweet oblivion taste tell thee thine thing THOMAS HEARNE thou thought thro town turn'd Twas VERSES ween wine wont youth
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Page 52 - 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 51 - Arachne in a hall or kitchen spreads, Obvious to vagrant flies ; she secret stands Within her woven cell ; the humming prey, Regardless of their fate, rush on the toils Inextricable...
Page 49 - Town-Hall* repairs ; Where, mindful of the nymph, whose wanton eye Transfix'd his soul, and kindled amorous flames, Chloe, or Phillis ; he each circling glass Wisheth her health, and joy, and equal love.
Page 67 - Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire, Lip of wax, and eye of fire ; And thy snowy taper waist, With my finger gently brac'd ; And thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper prest...
Page 53 - My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts By time subdued (what will not time subdue?) An horrid chasm disclose with orifice Wide, discontinuous; at which the winds Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter with dire chilling blasts, Portending agues.
Page 173 - GREECE, th' obedient grove : In headless statues rich, and useless urns, MARMOREO from the classic tour returns.— But would ye learn, ye leisure-loving 'squires, How best ye may disgrace your prudent sires ; How soonest soar to fashionable shame, Be...
Page 51 - First have endued : if he his ample palm Should haply on ill-fated shoulder lay Of debtor, straight his body, to the touch Obsequious (as whilom knights were wont), To some enchanted castle is convey'd, Where gates impregnable and coercive chains In durance strict detain him, till, in form Of money, Pallas sets the captive free.
Page 50 - Thus while my joyless minutes tedious flow, With looks demure, and silent pace, a Dun, Horrible monster ! hated by gods and men, To my aerial citadel ascends, With vocal heel thrice thundering at my gate, With hideous accent thrice he calls ; I know The voice ill-boding, and the solemn sound. What should I do? or whither turn?
Page 92 - till Dinner, to chat. Dinner over, to Toms, or to James's I go, The News of the Town so impatient to know ; While Law, Locke, and Newton, and all the rum Race, That talk of their Modes, their Ellipses, and Space, The Seat of the Soul, and new Systems on high, In Holes, as abtruse as their Mysteries, lie.
Page 49 - Cadwallader and Arthur, kings Full famous in romantic tale), when he O'er many a craggy hill and barren cliff, Upon a cargo of famed Cestrian cheese, High overshadowing rides...