The Cat-fight: A Mock Heroic Poem. Supported with Copious Extracts from Ancient and Modern Classic Authors ...1824 - Cats - 276 pages |
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... seem'd to say , Come , Tommy , come , I lead to Paradise : Here turn your whiskers to the milky way , Here's all Elysium , full of birds and mice . For no untimely chance his liver hit , Nor fell he fishing in a china jar ; No Cat ...
... seem'd to say , Come , Tommy , come , I lead to Paradise : Here turn your whiskers to the milky way , Here's all Elysium , full of birds and mice . For no untimely chance his liver hit , Nor fell he fishing in a china jar ; No Cat ...
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... seem'd a work of admirable wit t ; And therein all the famous historie Of Jason and Medea was ywrit ; Her mighty charmes , her furious loving fit , His goodly conquest of the golden fleece , His falsed faith , and love to lightly flit ...
... seem'd a work of admirable wit t ; And therein all the famous historie Of Jason and Medea was ywrit ; Her mighty charmes , her furious loving fit , His goodly conquest of the golden fleece , His falsed faith , and love to lightly flit ...
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... seem'd to entice ; His looser garments to the ground did fall , And flew about his heels in wanton wise , Not fit for speedy pace or manly exercise . The foe of life , that good envies to all , That secretly doth us procure to fall ...
... seem'd to entice ; His looser garments to the ground did fall , And flew about his heels in wanton wise , Not fit for speedy pace or manly exercise . The foe of life , that good envies to all , That secretly doth us procure to fall ...
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... seem'd to entice passers by to taste their lushious wine , And did themselves into their hands incline , As freely offering to be gathered ; Some deep empurpled as the hyacint , Some as the rubine , laughing sweetly red , Some like ...
... seem'd to entice passers by to taste their lushious wine , And did themselves into their hands incline , As freely offering to be gathered ; Some deep empurpled as the hyacint , Some as the rubine , laughing sweetly red , Some like ...
Page 61
... seem'd with lively jollitee To fly about , playing their wanton toyes , Whiles others did themselves embay in liquid joyes . And over all , of purest gold , was spred A trayle of ivie in his native hew : For the rich metall was so ...
... seem'd with lively jollitee To fly about , playing their wanton toyes , Whiles others did themselves embay in liquid joyes . And over all , of purest gold , was spred A trayle of ivie in his native hew : For the rich metall was so ...
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The Cat-Fight: A Mock Heroic Poem, Supported with Copious Extracts from ... Ebenezer Mack No preview available - 2017 |
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