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The selected word "in" appears 224 times in the following 43 texts (sorted by titles):

  1. Agrippina, a Tragedy  (19 results)
            10    You think, you spied a tear stand in her eye,
            26    In haughty youth and irritated power.
            61    When in a secret and dead hour of night,
            70    Even when its will seemed wrote in lines of blood,
            72    Think too how oft in weak and sickly minds
            83    Pours its cool dictates in the madding ear
            98    The silken son of dalliance, nursed in ease
          109    That in Armenia quell the Parthian force
          121    Even in the servile senate, ears to own
          129    And bellow in the Circus) yet will start,
          132    As there were magic in it? Wrinkled beldams
          145    The gilded swarm that wantons in the sunshine
          147    In gorgeous phrase of laboured eloquence
          153    In threats unexecuted? Haste thee, fly
          155    And cast me forth in duty to their lord.
          165    His eyes in fearful ecstasy: no matter
          174    In lieu of penitence and vain remorse,
          177    Dried the soft springs of pity in my heart,
          182    And sink the traitor in his mother's ruin. Exeunt.

  2. [The Alliance of Education and Government. A Fragment]  (5 results)
              5    And as in climes, where winter holds his reign,
              6    The soil, though fertile, will not teem in vain,
              9    So draw mankind in vain the vital airs,
            45    There languid pleasure sighs in every gale.
          100    What wonder in the sultry climes, that spread

  3. The Bard. A Pindaric Ode  (18 results)
            13    Stout Gloucester stood aghast in speechless trance:
            17    Robed in the sable garb of woe,
            26    'Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe;
            32    'Mountains, ye mourn in vain
            47    'With me in dreadful harmony they join,
            61    "Amazement in his van, with Flight combined,
            69    "The swarm that in thy noon-tide beam were born?
            73    "In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes;
            76    "That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening-prey.
            93    "The bristled Boar in infant-gore
          103    'In yon bright track, that fires the western skies,
          114    'In bearded majesty, appear.
          115    'In the midst a form divine!
          119    'What strings symphonious tremble in the air,
          124    'Waves in the eye of heaven her many-coloured wings.
          128    'In buskined measures move
          134    'That lost in long futurity expire.
          144    Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.

  4. The Candidate  (3 results)
              4    In harmless society guttle and scold.
            12    'Tis just like the picture in Rochester's book.
            21    From dinner she rose with her bumper in hand,

  5. The Characters of the Christ-Cross Row, By a Critic, To Mrs —  (14 results)
            13    In vain you think to find them under E,
            15    F follows fast the fair— and in his rear
            26    See Isaac, Joseph, Jacob pass in view.
            30    Like Punch he peeps, but soon pops in again.
            35    Now a proud prince, in pompous purple dressed,
            37    A pea, a pin, in a perpetual round,
            39    Like perch or pike in pond you see him come;
            40    He in plantations hangs like pear or plum,
            42    In form of parrot, pye or popinjay.
            44    The pleasantest person in the Christ-cross Row. [...]
            48    In shriller notes Q like a female squeaks.
            53    Thus great R reigns in town, while different far,
            54    Rests in retirement little rural R;
            55    Remote from cities lives in lone retreat,

  6. [Conan]  (1 result)
              6    As the whirlwind in its course;

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

  8. [The Death of Hoel]  (4 results)
              5    Too, too secure in youthful pride,
              9    Alone in nature's wealth arrayed,
            11    To Cattraeth's vale in glittering row
            15    Wreathed in many a golden link:

  9. The Descent of Odin. An Ode  (9 results)
            23    Thrice pronounced, in accents dread,
            43    Pr. Mantling in the goblet see
            55    Pr. In Hoder's hand the hero's doom:
            63    Pr. In the caverns of the west,
            67    Nor wash his visage in the stream,
            75    What virgins these, in speechless woe,
            78    And snowy veils, that float in air.
            93    Till wrapped in flames, in ruin hurled,

  10. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard  (10 results)
            14    Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
            15    Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
            45    Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
            64    And read their history in a nation's eyes,
            92    Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires.
            94    Dost in these lines their artless tale relate;
          105    'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn,
          108    'Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love.
          113    'The next with dirges due in sad array
          127    (There they alike in trembling hope repose)

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

  12. [Epitaph on Mrs Clerke]  (2 results)
              7    In agony, in death, resigned,

  13. [Epitaph on Mrs Mason]  (1 result)
              4    And bids ''the pure in heart behold their God.''

  14. [Epitaph on Sir William Williams]  (2 results)
              1    Here, foremost in the dangerous paths of fame,
              6    (There first in blood his infant glory sealed);

  15. The Fatal Sisters. An Ode  (3 results)
              4    Hurtles in the darkened air.
            13    Shafts for shuttles, dipped in gore,
            47    Long her strains in sorrow steep,

  16. [Hymn to Ignorance. A Fragment]  (2 results)
            18    To steep in slumbers each benighted sense?
            22    And huddle up in fogs the dangerous fire.

  17. [Imitated] From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1.  (9 results)
              3    From Cynthia all that in my numbers shines;
            27    In brief, whate'er she do, or say, or look,
            36    No mountain-structures in my verse should rise;
            41    Here should Augustus great in arms appear,
            48    In golden chains should loaded monarchs bend,
            51    While prows, that late in fierce encounter met,
            61    A milder warfare I in verse display;
            62    Each in his proper art should waste the day.
            64    To die is glorious in the bed of love.

  18. Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg: 5:  (4 results)
              3    Still may his bard in softer fights engage:
            10    I'd in the ring knit hands and join the Muses' dance.
            12    My soul in Bacchus' pleasing fetters bound;
            38    Obscure his radiance in a short-lived night;

  19. [Invitation to Mason]  (2 results)
              6    The Widow feels thee in her aching hip,
              8    And Balguy with a bishop in his belly!

  20. [Lines Written at Burnham]  (1 result)
              2    In murmuring sounds the dark decrees of fate;

  21. [Lines on Dr Robert Smith]  (1 result)
              2        And leaves not a chestnut in being?

  22. Lines on the Accession of George III  (1 result)
              2    And in his stead,

  23. [Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern]  (6 results)
              3    I reascend: in Atropos' despite
            27    And shadows in disguise skate o'er the iced Canal;
            33    Greensickness girls that died in youthful prime,
            34    Virgins forlorn, all dressed in willow-green-i,
            48    The people, as in life, still keep their passions,
            49    But differ something from the world in fashions.

  24. A Long Story  (17 results)
              1    In Britain's isle, no matter where,
              6    Each panel in achievements clothing,
            17    What, in the very first beginning!
            23    A brace of warriors, not in buff,
            24    But rustling in their silks and tissues.
            40    In pity to the country-farmer.
            41    Fame in the shape of Mr. P[ur]t
            60    And up stairs in a whirlwind rattle.
            68    Or creased, like dogs-ears, in a folio.
            72    To a small closet in the garden.
            75    Where, safe and laughing in his sleeve,
            90    For folks in fear are apt to pray)
          101    Such as in silence of the night
          105    In peaked hoods and mantles tarnished,
          114    Had in imagination fenced him,
          122    'How in the park beneath an old-tree
          135    (Cried the square hoods in woeful fidget)

  25. Ode for Music  (7 results)
              7    'Nor in these consecrated bowers
              8    'Let painted Flattery hide her serpent-train in flowers.
            18    Rapt in celestial transport they, (accomp.)
            33    'In cloisters dim, far from the haunts of Folly,
            38    And mitred fathers in long order go:
            55    And thus they speak in soft accord
            69    'Pleased in thy lineaments we trace

  26. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College  (5 results)
            12    Ah fields beloved in vain,
            39    They hear a voice in every wind,
            58    Ah, show them where in ambush stand
            81    Lo, in the vale of years beneath
            87    Those in the deeper vitals rage:

  27. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes  (2 results)
            22    She stretched in vain to reach the prize.
            30        She tumbled headlong in.

  28. [Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude]  (2 results)
              9    New-born flocks in rustic dance
            56    They perish in the boundless deep

  29. Ode on the Spring  (4 results)
            17    (At ease reclined in rustic state)
            37    In fortune's varying colours dressed:
            40    They leave, in dust to rest.
            41    Methinks I hear in accents low

  30. Ode to Adversity  (4 results)
              5    Bound in thy adamantine chain
            25    Wisdom in sable garb arrayed,
            26    Immersed in rapturous thought profound,
            35    Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad,

  31. On L[or]d H[olland']s Seat near M[argat]e, K[en]t  (2 results)
            23    Owls might have hooted in St Peter's choir,
            24        And foxes stunk and littered in St Paul's.'

  32. The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode  (15 results)
            23    Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie
            31    Frisking light in frolic measures;
            33    Now in circling troops they meet:
            34    To brisk notes in cadence beating
            39    In gliding state she wins her easy way:
            48    Say, has he given in vain the heavenly Muse?
            54    In climes beyond the solar road,
            61    In loose numbers wildly sweet
            70    In lingering lab'rinths creep,
            77    Till the sad Nine in Greece's evil hour
            80    And coward Vice that revels in her chains.
            84    In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid,
          102    Closed his eyes in endless night.
          106    With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
          119    Such forms, as glitter in the Muse's ray

  33. Satire on the Heads of Houses; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring  (2 results)
              8    In the same dirt is dawdling;
            18    Copies them in all things;

  34. [Sketch of his Own Character]  (1 result)
              4    No very great wit, he believed in a God.

  35. Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West]  (4 results)
              1    In vain to me the smiling mornings shine,
              3    The birds in vain their amorous descant join,
              8    And in my breast the imperfect joys expire.
            14    And weep the more because I weep in vain.

  36. Stanzas to Mr Bentley  (8 results)
              1    In silent gaze the tuneful choir among,
              5    See, in their course, each transitory thought
              7    Each dream, in fancy's airy colouring wrought,
            11    In swifter measures animated run,
            17    But not to one in this benighted age
            19    That burns in Shakespeare's or in Milton's page,
            21    As when, conspiring in the diamond's blaze,

  37. [Translation from Dante, Inferno Canto xxxiii 1-78]  (5 results)
            13    In me Count Ugolino, and Ruggieri,
            39    O'erta'en beheld, and in their trembling flanks
            44    But yet in low and uncompleted sounds
            62    My sons, and in four faces saw my own
            74    In vain my help, expired; ere the sixth morn

  38. [Translation from Statius, Thebaid VI 646-88, 704-24]  (8 results)
            35    For oft in Pisa's sports his native land
            37    The ponderous brass in exercise he bore:
            41    And now in dust the polished ball he rolled,
            50    Sings in its rapid way and strengthens as it flies;
            56    In vain the nations with officious fear
            60    Third in the labours of the disc came on,
            75    The ponderous mass sinks in the cleaving ground,
            86    And calmed the terrors of his claws in gold.

  39. [Translation from Statius, Thebaid IX 319-26]  (2 results)
              4    Exults in arms, which cast an iron gleam.
              5    In this clear wave he first beheld the day;

  40. [Translation] From Tasso [Gerusalemme Liberata] Canto 14, Stanza 32-9.  (11 results)
              5    Nor yet in prospect rose the distant shore,
            12    The wondrous sage: vigorous he seemed in years,
            18    And winter binds the floods in icy chains,
            19    Swift shoots the village-maid in rustic play,
            21    Fearless in long excursion loves to glide,
            25    Where fixed in wonder stood the warlike pair
            28    To seek your hero in a distant soil!
            35    Great things and full of wonder in your ears
            42    And in the midst a spacious arch appears.
            61    In one rich mass unite the precious store,
            66    And mix attempered in a various day.

  41. The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment  (1 result)
            21    In glittering arms and glory dressed,

  42. [Verse Fragments]  (3 results)
              1        The Joy that trembles in her eye
              3                              [...] in silent praise
            11        & hail thee in my words.

  43. William Shakespeare to Mrs Anne, Regular Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of York  (2 results)
            10    Was fashioned fair in meek and dovelike guise;
            20    Than thus be patched and cobbled in one's grave.

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