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" 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 cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie or... "
Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces - Page 209
edited by - 1821 - 807 pages
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Works: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Robert Fergusson - 1807 - 378 pages
...peerless Fancy hauds her court, And tunes her lays. CALLER OYSTERS. Happy the man, who, free from care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains...pain New oysters cry'd, nor sighs for cheerful ale. PHILLIPS. O' A' the waters that can hobble, A fishing yole or sa'mon coble, And can reward the fisher's...
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The works of Robert Fergusson, to which is prefixed, a sketch of the author ...

Robert Fergusson - 1807 - 378 pages
...peerless Fancy bauds her court. And tunes her lays. CALLER OYSTERS. Happy the man, who, free from care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains...pain New oysters cry'd, nor sighs for cheerful ale. PHILLK>S. O' A' the waters that can hobble, A fishing yole or sa'mon coble, And can reward the fisher's...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - 1809 - 510 pages
...find by this decree, The soul flies sooner back to me.' H JOHN PHILIPS. THE SPLENDID SHILLING. APPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or...Splendid Shilling! he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie,...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 606 pages
...prose or rhymr, A Shilling, Breechei, and Chun eras dire. HAPPY the man, who, void of cares and stiiuIn F! fain New oysters cried, nor sighs fur cheerful ale : But with, his friends, when, nightly mists arisft...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Waller, Butler ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...heavenly Muse! Things nnattempte<l yet, in prose or rhyme," A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. HAPPY the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern parse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cry'd, nor sighs for cheerful...
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The poetical works of Robert Ferguson, with his life, Volume 2

Robert Fergusson - 1812 - 274 pages
...court, , , )i('(And tunes her lays.' , . -i \< f CALLER OYSTERS. Happy the man, who, free from care and strife In silken or in leathern purse retains...pain New oysters cry'd, nor sighs for cheerful ale. O a' the waters that can hobble, A fishing yole, or sa'mon coble, And can reward the fisher's trouble,...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

1814 - 310 pages
...Muse ! " Things unattempted yet, in prose or rhyme ;" A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. HAPPY the man, who, void of cares and strife., In silken...Splendid Shilling; he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But, with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpye,...
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The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed, the Life ...

Robert Fergusson - 1815 - 348 pages
...peerless Fancy bads her court; And tunes her lays. CALLER OYSTERS. Happy the man who, free from care and strife^ In silken or in leathern purse retains...pain New OYSTERS cry'd, nor sighs for cheerful ale. PHILIIPS. O' A' the waters that can hobble A fishing yole or sa'mon coble. An' can reward the fisher's...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...heavenly Muse ! Things unattempted yet, in prose or rhyme," A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. HAPPY the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken...repairs : Where, mindful of the nymph, whose wanton cya Transfix'd his soul, and kindled amorous flames, Chloe, or Phillis, he each circling glass Wieheth...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Muse ! Things unnttempted yet, in prose or rhyme," A shilling, breeches, and cliimeras dire. H.APPT he vast and boundless deep. Transfix'd his soul, and kindled amorous Hamer, Chloe, or Phillis, he each circling glass Wisheth her...
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