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The selected word "now" appears 42 times in the following 16 texts (sorted by titles):

  1. The Bard. A Pindaric Ode  (1 result)
            95    "Now, brothers, bending o'er the accursed loom,

  2. The Candidate  (1 result)
            11    'I don't know,' says Law, 'now methinks, for his look,

  3. The Characters of the Christ-Cross Row, By a Critic, To Mrs —  (7 results)
            11    No more, our Esthers now are nought but Hetties,
            33    Now a pert prig, he perks upon your face;
            34    Now peers, pores, ponders with profound grimace;
            35    Now a proud prince, in pompous purple dressed,
            36    And now a player, a peer, a pimp or priest,
            38    Now seems a penny, and now shows a pound.

  4. The Descent of Odin. An Ode  (3 results)
            57    Now my weary lips I close:
            71    Now my weary lips I close:
            82    King of Men, I know thee now,

  5. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard  (3 results)
              5    Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
          105    'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn,
          107    'Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn,

  6. [Epitaph on a Child]  (1 result)
              6    Now let him sleep in peace his night of death.

  7. The Fatal Sisters. An Ode  (1 result)
              1    Now the storm begins to lower,

  8. Ode for Music  (1 result)
            49    Their human passions now no more,

  9. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College  (1 result)
            25    Who foremost now delight to cleave

  10. [Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude]  (2 results)
              1    Now the golden Morn aloft
            21    Their raptures now that wildly flow,

  11. On L[or]d H[olland']s Seat near M[argat]e, K[en]t  (1 result)
            13    Now mouldering fanes and battlements arise,

  12. [Parody on an Epitaph]  (4 results)
              1    Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff,

  13. The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode  (6 results)
              7    Now the rich stream of music winds along,
            10    Now rowling down the steep amain,
            32    Now pursuing, now retreating,
            33    Now in circling troops they meet:
          113    Wakes thee now? Though he inherit

  14. [Translation from Dante, Inferno Canto xxxiii 1-78]  (4 results)
            14    Pisa's perfidious prelate, this: now hear
            47    Foresaw, foreknew; oh! if thou weep not now,
            49    Sad with the fears of sleep, and now the hour
            80    On their dear names, that heard me now no more;

  15. [Translation from Statius, Thebaid VI 646-88, 704-24]  (4 results)
            13    Nor more; for now Nesimachus's son,
            41    And now in dust the polished ball he rolled,
            43    Now fitting to his grip and nervous arm,
            49    It towers to cut the clouds; now through the skies

  16. William Shakespeare to Mrs Anne, Regular Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of York  (2 results)
              4    Though now a book and interleaved, you see.
              8    But what awaits me now is worst of all.

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