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  1. Agrippina, a Tragedy  (12 results)
              P    and brings Nero, as it were by chance, to the sight of the
              P    that it will be for her interest. Otho hearing that the Emperor
            11    And would have dropped, but that her pride restrained it?
            12    (Go! you can paint it well) 'twill profit you,
            16    Without a spell to raise, and bid it fire
            29    To her that gave it being, her that armed
            84    Of rage, and thinks to quench the fire it feels not.
          118    It bears a noble semblance. On this base
          132    As there were magic in it? Wrinkled beldams
          133    Teach it their grandchildren, as somewhat rare
          148    To dress thy plea, and Burrhus strengthen it
          166    What, so it be strange, and dreadful.— Sorceries,

  2. [Translation from Statius, Thebaid VI 646-88, 704-24]  (7 results)
            27    With doubled light it beamed against the day:
            30    When blazing 'gainst the sun it shines from far,
            40    Nor stopped till it had cut the further strand.
            49    It towers to cut the clouds; now through the skies
            50    Sings in its rapid way and strengthens as it flies;
            70    True to the mighty arm that gave it force,
            74    Tremble ere it precipitates its fall;

  3. A Long Story  (5 results)
            16    Though Pope and Spaniard could not trouble it.
            42    (By this time all the parish know it)
          127    'Numbers would give their oaths upon it,
          138    'Her air and all her manners show it.
              P    [Great-House] So the Country People call it. [Garrett MS.]

  4. The Bard. A Pindaric Ode  (4 results)
              P    the Welch themselves call Craigian-eryri: it included all the highlands of
              P    it even has built its nest in the Peak of Derbyshire. [See Willoughby's Ornithol.
              P    It was the common belief of the Welch nation, that King Arthur was still alive in Fairy-Land,
              P    thirteenth-century version and many of the poems in it may not be by Taliessin.]

  5. The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode  (4 results)
            11    Headlong, impetuous, see it pour:
              P    poetry, which gives life and lustre to all it touches, are here described; its quiet
              P    its connection with liberty, and the virtues that naturally attend on it. [See the
              P    enemies to ravens that croak and clamour in vain below, while it pursues its flight,

  6. [Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern]  (3 results)
            18    It tumbled down a thousand pair of stairs,
            23    It came into a mead of asphodel:
            25    It lies, of 'Lysium the St. James's Park.

  7. [Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude]  (3 results)
            52    And tastes it as it goes.
            54    Broad and turbulent it grows

  8. The Descent of Odin. An Ode  (2 results)
            45    O'er it hangs the shield of gold;
              P    than in battle: Over it presided Hela, the Goddess of Death.

  9. [Imitated] From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1.  (2 results)
            10    And half disclose those limbs it should conceal;
            69    Or if, alas! it be my fate to try

  10. [The Alliance of Education and Government. A Fragment]  (1 result)
            57    And quaff the pendent vintage, as it grows.

  11. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard  (1 result)
              P    [(It was already the hour which turns back the desire

  12. The Fatal Sisters. An Ode  (1 result)
              P    into it. Curiosity led him to follow them, till looking through an

  13. [Hymn to Ignorance. A Fragment]  (1 result)
            21    With damp, cold touch forbid it to aspire,

  14. Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg: 5:  (1 result)
              8    Where Aganippe warbles as it flows;

  15. Ode for Music  (1 result)
            73    'And bid it round heaven's altars shed

  16. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College  (1 result)
            77    That mocks the tear it forced to flow;

  17. Song I  (1 result)
              4    Yet close my dull eyes when I see it returning;

  18. [Translation from Dante, Inferno Canto xxxiii 1-78]  (1 result)
            17    By trusting, and by treachery slain, it recks not

  19. [Translation] From Tasso [Gerusalemme Liberata] Canto 14, Stanza 32-9.  (1 result)
            30    Art it requires and more than winged speed.

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