All the blocks! Or, An antidote to 'All the talents' [by E.S. Barrett]. A satirical poem, by FlagellumJ. Smeeton, 1807 - 76 pages |
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... hold the balance just . V What more then need be said of this most able peer , when Satire sheaths its dart , and suffers the main spring of the very body it attacks to continue in motion , without any spoke B 2 Whose talents still with ...
... hold the balance just . V What more then need be said of this most able peer , when Satire sheaths its dart , and suffers the main spring of the very body it attacks to continue in motion , without any spoke B 2 Whose talents still with ...
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... FLAGELLUM . Hold ! I've not done- Concerning both , my race must still be run . For , hath not Britain cause this change to weep , Whose dauntless guardians of the vasty deep Have now to own a M - lgr - ve's 12 ALL THE BLOCKS :
... FLAGELLUM . Hold ! I've not done- Concerning both , my race must still be run . For , hath not Britain cause this change to weep , Whose dauntless guardians of the vasty deep Have now to own a M - lgr - ve's 12 ALL THE BLOCKS :
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... hold , my Pegasus ! a truce to lashing ; Take breath , and then anew commence thy splashing : These Blocks , à capite ad calcem , spatter- For ' faith , my muse , it is no arduous matter ; So fully are their acts with folly fraught , To ...
... hold , my Pegasus ! a truce to lashing ; Take breath , and then anew commence thy splashing : These Blocks , à capite ad calcem , spatter- For ' faith , my muse , it is no arduous matter ; So fully are their acts with folly fraught , To ...
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... hold of a tureen filled with home - made soup , and gobbled himself into Secretary for that department : —while C - stl - re - gh , at his right hand , find- ing his appetite keen , new strung his bow with a fricasee of war and colonies ...
... hold of a tureen filled with home - made soup , and gobbled himself into Secretary for that department : —while C - stl - re - gh , at his right hand , find- ing his appetite keen , new strung his bow with a fricasee of war and colonies ...
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... holds in the state , the further douceur of the seal of the duchy of Lancaster , durante vita , which his M - y was persuaded not to give , except during pleasure , by an address of the House of Commons . But the Blocks , like the last ...
... holds in the state , the further douceur of the seal of the duchy of Lancaster , durante vita , which his M - y was persuaded not to give , except during pleasure , by an address of the House of Commons . But the Blocks , like the last ...
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