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The selected word "on" appears 90 times in the following 33 texts (sorted by titles):

  1. Agrippina, a Tragedy  (7 results)
            15    Yet walks on earth: at least there are who know
            42    On expectation's strongest wing to soar
            75    To be repaid, sit heavy on the soul,
            79    That wait on youth and arbitrary sway:
          118    It bears a noble semblance. On this base
          143    Let majesty sit on thy awful brow
          189    That hangs on thy clear brow. So Helen looked,

  2. [The Alliance of Education and Government. A Fragment]  (4 results)
            13    So fond Instruction on the growing powers
            16    Smile not indulgent on the rising race,
            75    By Reason's light on Resolution's wings,
          106    Or on frail floats to distant cities ride,

  3. The Bard. A Pindaric Ode  (10 results)
              2    'Confusion on thy banners wait,
            15    On a rock, whose haughty brow
            26    'Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe;
            35    'On dreary Arvon's shore they lie,
            44    'On yonder cliffs, a grisly band,
            64    "Low on his funeral couch he lies!
            74    "Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm;
          105    'But oh! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height
          108    'Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
          133    'And distant warblings lessen on my ear,

  4. [Caradoc]  (1 result)
              3    On surrounding foes advance?

  5. The Characters of the Christ-Cross Row, By a Critic, To Mrs —  (2 results)
            23    But why on such mock grandeur should we dwell?
            41    Pippin or peach, then perches on the spray,

  6. [Conan]  (1 result)
              8    Glancing on the shivered oak;

  7. The Descent of Odin. An Ode  (3 results)
            31    Long on these mouldering bones have beat
            69    Till he on Hoder's corse shall smile
            70    Flaming on the funeral pile.

  8. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard  (7 results)
              5    Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
            56    And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
            68    And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,
            89    On some fond breast the parting soul relies,
          109    'One morn I missed him on the customed hill,
          116    'Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.'
          119    Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,

  9. [Epitaph on a Child]  (1 result)
              3    A gentler lamb ne'er sported on the plain,

  10. [Epitaph on Mrs Clerke]  (1 result)
            10    Sits smiling on a father's woe:

  11. [Epitaph on Sir William Williams]  (1 result)
            10    Victor he stood on Belle Isle's rocky steeps;

  12. [Hymn to Ignorance. A Fragment]  (1 result)
            36    High on her car, behold the grandam ride

  13. Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg: 5:  (2 results)
            13    Let on this head unfading flowers reside,
            45    Earth's monster-brood stretched on their iron bed;

  14. [Invitation to Mason]  (1 result)
              5    Brown sees thee sitting on his nose's tip,

  15. [Lines Written at Burnham]  (1 result)
              4    Cling to each leaf and swarm on every bough:

  16. [Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern]  (1 result)
            50    Queen Artemisia breakfasts on bohea,

  17. A Long Story  (2 results)
            69    On the first marching of the troops
            94    But, with a blush on recollection,

  18. Ode for Music  (6 results)
            14    Bursts on my ear the indignant lay:
            21    To bless the place, where on their opening soul
            39    Great Edward with the lilies on his brow
            41    And sad Chatillon, on her bridal morn
            51    All that on Granta's fruitful plain
            76    'To glitter on the diadem.

  19. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College  (2 results)
            23    Disporting on thy margent green
            31    While some on earnest business bent

  20. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes  (2 results)
              1    'Twas on a lofty vase's side,
              6        Gazed on the lake below.

  21. [Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude]  (2 results)
            25    Smiles on past Misfortune's brow
            42    On the thorny bed of pain,

  22. Ode on the Spring  (2 results)
            25    The insect youth are on the wing,
            48    On hasty wings thy youth is flown;

  23. Ode to Adversity  (3 results)
              9    When first thy Sire to send on earth
            29    Still on thy solemn steps attend:
            33    Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head,

  24. On L[or]d H[olland']s Seat near M[argat]e, K[en]t  (1 result)
              5    On this congenial spot he fixed his choice;

  25. The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode  (3 results)
            17    On Thracia's hills the Lord of War,
            20    Perching on the sceptered hand
            29    On Cytherea's day

  26. Satire on the Heads of Houses; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring  (1 result)
              3    On the heads of thy Houses,

  27. Stanzas to Mr Bentley  (1 result)
              9    The tardy rhymes that used to linger on,

  28. [Translation from Dante, Inferno Canto xxxiii 1-78]  (4 results)
              2    His gore-dyed lips, which on the clottered locks
            10    'I know not who thou art nor on what errand
            52    And fastening bolts. Then on my children's eyes
            80    On their dear names, that heard me now no more;

  29. [Translation from Statius, Thebaid VI 646-88, 704-24]  (7 results)
            14    By acclamations roused, came towering on.
            34    All eyes were bent on his experienced hand,
            36    Admired that arm; oft on Alpheus' shore
            59    And smiles malignant on the labouring power.
            60    Third in the labours of the disc came on,
            68    Pursued his cast and hurled the orb on high;
            69    The orb on high tenacious of its course,

  30. [Translation from Statius, Thebaid IX 319-26]  (3 results)
              2    To Faunus on the Theban river's shore,
              6    On the green bank first taught his steps to stray,
              7    To skim the parent flood and on the margin play:

  31. [Translation] From Tasso [Gerusalemme Liberata] Canto 14, Stanza 32-9.  (3 results)
            17    As on the Rhine when Boreas' fury reigns
            23    So moved the seer, but on no hardened plain:
            41    The flood on either hand its billows rears,

  32. The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment  (3 results)
              6    Nor on all profusely pours;
            13    On her shadow long and gay
            19    Dauntless on his native sands

  33. William Shakespeare to Mrs Anne, Regular Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of York  (1 result)
            13    If then he wreak on me his wicked will,

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33 texts (90 results)