The Works: In Verse and Prose, of Dr. Thomas Parnell, ... Enlarged with Variations and Poems, Not Before Publish'dRobert & Andrew Foulis, 1767 - 232 pages |
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... Frogs and Mice . To Mr. Pope . Part of the first Canto of the Rape of the Lock , with a Tranflation in Leonine Verfe , after the manner of the antient Monks . Health ; an Eclogue . The Flies ; an Eclogue . An Elegy . To an old Beauty ...
... Frogs and Mice . To Mr. Pope . Part of the first Canto of the Rape of the Lock , with a Tranflation in Leonine Verfe , after the manner of the antient Monks . Health ; an Eclogue . The Flies ; an Eclogue . An Elegy . To an old Beauty ...
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... upon Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice . Variations . Bacchus , or the Vines of Lesbos . Elysium . To Dr. Swift . Piety , or the Vision . Ecstasy . 145 177 203 211 215 221 225 229 OR , THE RISE OF WOMAN . WHAT HAT antient CONTENTS .
... upon Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice . Variations . Bacchus , or the Vines of Lesbos . Elysium . To Dr. Swift . Piety , or the Vision . Ecstasy . 145 177 203 211 215 221 225 229 OR , THE RISE OF WOMAN . WHAT HAT antient CONTENTS .
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... FROGS AND MICE . T PSYCARPAX , One who PHYSIGNATHUS , One OF THE FROGS Battle of the Frogs and Mice.
... FROGS AND MICE . T PSYCARPAX , One who PHYSIGNATHUS , One OF THE FROGS Battle of the Frogs and Mice.
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... FROGS AND MICE . To BOOK I. O. NAMES OF THE MICE . NAMES OF THE FROGS . plunders granaries . Troxartas , A bread eater . Lychomile , Alicker of meal . Pternotroctas , A bacon - eater . Lychopinax , A licker of dishes . Embasichytros , A ...
... FROGS AND MICE . To BOOK I. O. NAMES OF THE MICE . NAMES OF THE FROGS . plunders granaries . Troxartas , A bread eater . Lychomile , Alicker of meal . Pternotroctas , A bacon - eater . Lychopinax , A licker of dishes . Embasichytros , A ...
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... FROGS AND MICE . To BOOK I. O fill my rifing fong with facred fire , Ye tuneful Nine , ye sweet celestial quire ... Frog advanc'd his head ; And F 2 BATTLE.
... FROGS AND MICE . To BOOK I. O fill my rifing fong with facred fire , Ye tuneful Nine , ye sweet celestial quire ... Frog advanc'd his head ; And F 2 BATTLE.
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