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The selected word "his" appears 202 times in the following 35 texts (sorted by titles):

  1. Agrippina, a Tragedy  (18 results)
              3    His mother shall obey him. Say you saw her
              4    Yielding due reverence to his high command:
            13    And please the stripling. Yet 'twould dash his joy
            20    His hospitable board: they are aware
            30    This painted Jove, and taught his novice hand
            45    Oped his young eye to bear the blaze of greatness;
            95    Knows his soft ear the trumpet's thrilling voice,
            96    And outcry of the battle? Have his limbs
          100    And Sylla has his friends, though schooled by fear
          140    Shall from the dust uprear his reverend head,
          142    His high tribunal thou and I appear.
          149    With his plain soldier's oath and honest seeming.
          165    His eyes in fearful ecstasy: no matter
          168    My guilt, the blacker his ingratitude.
          181    Let me not fall alone; but crush his pride,
          182    And sink the traitor in his mother's ruin. Exeunt.
          185    Lent us his wings, we could not have beguiled
          191    By the young Trojan to his gilded bark

  2. [The Alliance of Education and Government. A Fragment]  (5 results)
              5    And as in climes, where winter holds his reign,
            24    His sable sons with nearer course surrounds,
          101    Where Nile redundant o'er his summer-bed
          102    From his broad bosom life and verdure flings,
          103    And broods o'er Egypt with his watery wings,

  3. The Bard. A Pindaric Ode  (13 results)
            12    He wound with toilsome march his long array.
            14    'To arms!' cried Mortimer, and couched his quivering lance.
            19    (Loose his beard, and hoary hair
            22    Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
            31    'Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed:
            34    'Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-topped head.
            61    "Amazement in his van, with Flight combined,
            64    "Low on his funeral couch he lies!
            66    "A tear to grace his obsequies.
            76    "That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening-prey.
            89    "Revere his consort's faith, his father's fame,
            96    "Stamp we our vengeance deep, and ratify his doom.

  4. The Candidate  (9 results)
              1    When sly Jemmy Twitcher had smugged up his face
              8    But his nose is a shame and his eyes are so lewd!
            11    'I don't know,' says Law, 'now methinks, for his look,
            13    But his character, Phyzzy, his morals, his life;
            16    And all the town rings of his swearing and roaring,
            17    His lying and filching, and Newgate-bird tricks:—

  5. [Caradoc]  (1 result)
              4    So Caradoc bore his lance.

  6. The Characters of the Christ-Cross Row, By a Critic, To Mrs —  (5 results)
            15    F follows fast the fair— and in his rear
            21    High heaves his hugeness H: methinks we see
            29    P pokes his head out, yet has not a pain:
            31    Pleased with his pranks, the pisgys calls him Puck,
            56    With rooks and rabbit-burrows round his seat.

  7. [Couplet about Birds]  (1 result)
              2    Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air.

  8. The Descent of Odin. An Ode  (11 results)
              2    And saddled straight his coal-black steed;
              6    His shaggy throat he opened wide,
              7    While from his jaws, with carnage filled,
            13    Onward still his way he takes,
            15    Till full before his fearless eyes
            54    Who the author of his fate.
            56    His brother sends him to the tomb.
            61    Who the avenger of his guilt,
            66    Who ne'er shall comb his raven-hair,
            67    Nor wash his visage in the stream,
            90    Till Lok has burst his tenfold chain;

  9. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard  (17 results)
              3    The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
              7    Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
            15    Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
            24    Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
            58    The little tyrant of his fields withstood;
            60    Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
          103    'His listless length at noontide would he stretch,
          106    'Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove,
          110    'Along the heath and near his favourite tree;
          117    Here rests his head upon the lap of earth
          119    Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
          121    Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,
          125    No farther seek his merits to disclose,
          126    Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,
          128    The bosom of his Father and his God.

  10. [Epitaph on a Child]  (3 results)
              2    A child, the darling of his parents' eyes:
              5    Few were the days allotted to his breath;
              6    Now let him sleep in peace his night of death.

  11. [Epitaph on Sir William Williams]  (4 results)
              3    His mind each Muse, each Grace adorned his frame,
              5    At Aix uncalled his maiden sword he drew,
              6    (There first in blood his infant glory sealed);

  12. The Fatal Sisters. An Ode  (2 results)
            45    Long his loss shall Eirin weep,
            46    Ne'er again his likeness see;

  13. [Hymn to Ignorance. A Fragment]  (2 results)
              4    Perpetual draws his humid train of mud:
            11    Thrice hath Hyperion rolled his annual race,

  14. [Imitated] From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1.  (8 results)
            50    To mourn the glories of his sevenfold stream,
            54    And with his garlands weave thy ever-faithful name;
            60    The shepherd of his flocks, the soldier of the fight;
            62    Each in his proper art should waste the day.
            83    To Chiron Phoenix owed his long-lost sight,
            90    Or drive the infernal vulture from his prey.
            97    A train of mourning friends attend his pall,
          107    Love and the fair were of his life the pride;

  15. Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg: 5:  (5 results)
              3    Still may his bard in softer fights engage:
            36    Shakes all his pines and bows his hundred heads;
            38    Obscure his radiance in a short-lived night;
            58    Redeem what Crassus lost and vindicate his name.

  16. [Invitation to Mason]  (2 results)
              5    Brown sees thee sitting on his nose's tip,
              8    And Balguy with a bishop in his belly!

  17. Lines on the Accession of George III  (2 results)
              2    And in his stead,
              3        The New One takes his place;

  18. [Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern]  (3 results)
              7    At his command admit the eye of day:
            41    As Orozmades to his Celadony.
            44    Nobles and cits, Prince Pluto and his spouse,

  19. A Long Story  (16 results)
            13    His bushy beard and shoe-strings green,
            14    His high-crowned hat and satin-doublet,
            59    Rummage his mother, pinch his aunt,
            62    Each creek and cranny of his chamber,
            70    The Muses, hopeless of his pardon,
            75    Where, safe and laughing in his sleeve,
            77    Short was his joy. He little knew
            89    Yet no his way (no sign of grace,
            91    To Phoebus he preferred his case,
            92    And begged his aid that dreadful day.
            93    The godhead would have backed his quarrel,
            95    Owned that his quiver and his laurel
          117    But soon his rhetoric forsook him,
          126    'Yet hoped that he might save his bacon:

  20. Ode for Music  (4 results)
              2    'Comus and his midnight-crew,
            25    Meek Newton's self bends from his state sublime,
            26    And nods his hoary head and listens to the rhyme.
            39    Great Edward with the lilies on his brow

  21. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College  (3 results)
            10    His silver-winding way.
            91    To each his sufferings: all are men,
            94    The unfeeling for his own.

  22. [Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude]  (4 results)
              8    Scatters his freshest, tenderest green.
            12    The birds his presence greet:
            14    His trembling thrilling ecstasy
            43    At length repair his vigour lost,

  23. Ode to Adversity  (1 result)
            10    Virtue, his darling child, designed,

  24. On L[or]d H[olland']s Seat near M[argat]e, K[en]t  (3 results)
              5    On this congenial spot he fixed his choice;
              6        Earl Godwin trembled for his neighbouring sand;
            15    Unpeopled palaces delude his eyes,

  25. The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode  (9 results)
            18    Has curbed the fury of his car,
            19    And dropped his thirsty lance at thy command.
            24    The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye.
            88    Stretched forth his little arms and smiled.
          102    Closed his eyes in endless night.
          107    Hark, his hands the lyre explore!
          118    Yet oft before his infant eyes would run
          121    Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way

  26. Satire on the Heads of Houses; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring  (2 results)
            20    Takes them all for his pattern;
            30    Has from them his system took;

  27. Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West]  (1 result)
              2    And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire:

  28. Stanzas to Mr Bentley  (6 results)
              6        Fixed by his touch a lasting essence take;
            12        And catch a lustre from his genuine flame.
            13    Ah! could they catch his strength, his easy grace,
            14        His quick creation, his unerring line;

  29. [Tophet]  (1 result)
              2    Whom many a frighted prelate called his friend;

  30. [Translation from Dante, Inferno Canto xxxiii 1-78]  (5 results)
              1    From his dire food the grisly felon raised
              2    His gore-dyed lips, which on the clottered locks
            32    His young ones ran beside him. Lanfranc there
            38    Of strength bereft, his helpless offspring soon
            84    The hellish feast, and rent his trembling prey.

  31. [Translation from Statius, Thebaid VI 646-88, 704-24]  (17 results)
              3    Let him stand forth his brawny arm to boast.'
            15    Another orb upheaved his strong right hand,
            33    Summoned his strength and called forth all the man.
            34    All eyes were bent on his experienced hand,
            35    For oft in Pisa's sports his native land
            38    Where flowed the widest stream he took his stand;
            39    Sure flew the disc from his unerring hand,
            42    Then grasped its weight, elusive of his hold;
            43    Now fitting to his grip and nervous arm,
            46    Emits the mass, a prelude of his might.
            47    Firmly he plants each knee and o'er his head,
            48    Collecting all his force, the circle sped.
            65    His vigorous arm he tried before he flung,
            66    Braced all his nerves and every sinew strung;
            68    Pursued his cast and hurled the orb on high;
            82    And scarce Ulysses scaped his giant arm.
            86    And calmed the terrors of his claws in gold.

  32. [Translation from Statius, Thebaid IX 319-26]  (5 results)
              3    With new-born heat amidst his native stream
              6    On the green bank first taught his steps to stray,
              9    Secure within his mother's watery state.
            14    Whether the youth obliquely steers his course
            16    The indulgent river strives his steps to aid.

  33. [Translation] From Tasso [Gerusalemme Liberata] Canto 14, Stanza 32-9.  (6 results)
              9    The torrent-stream his ancient bounds disdains,
            13    Awful his mien; low as his feet there flows
            16    His head a chaplet bore, his hand a rod.
            26    His course he turned and thus relieved their care:

  34. The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment  (5 results)
              5    He nor heaps his brooded stores,
            19    Dauntless on his native sands
            22    High he rears his ruby crest.
            27    Where his glowing eye-balls turn,
            29    Where he points his purple spear,

  35. William Shakespeare to Mrs Anne, Regular Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of York  (3 results)
            13    If then he wreak on me his wicked will,
            14    Steal to his closet at the hour of prayer,
            16    Grease his best pen, and all he scribbles, tear.

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