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Miscellaneous writings of the late Dr. Maginn

edited by Dr. Shelton Mackenzie
Maginn, William (1793-1842)

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Pandemus Polyglott.
  
Sapphics. The Friend of Humanity and the Knifegrinder
  
[“Busy, curious, thirsty fly]
  
Young Lady.
  
Myself.
  
Song by Ben Jonson.
  
Song: The Glasses sparkle.
  
The Widow to her Dying Child—by Matthew Child.
  
Three Goblets of Wine.
  
Indy Callaghan.
  
Monsieur Indas.
  
Roger Goodfellow.
  
Backe and Side go Bare, go Bare.
  
At my Time of Day.
  
Farewell, Beggarly Scotland.
  
French Slang Song from Vidocq.
  
CHILD DANIEL.
  
SORROW IS DRY.
  
EXTRACT FROM MY GREAT AUTO-BIOGRAPHICAL POEM.
  
SIR DANIEL DONNELLY.—A BALLAD.
  
ODONNELLY, AN ODE BY MORGAN ODOHERTY.
  
[Mourn Erin, sons of Erin mourn]
  
A DIRGE OVER SIR DANIEL DONNELLY; BY THOMAS JENNINGS.
  
[Underneath this pillar high]
  
[“What is it ails you, ye beauteous people]
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The Embalmer.
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Irish Melodies.
  
Byron to Murray.
  
Ode to Mrs. Flanagan.
  
Ode to Marshal Grouchy on his Return.
  
Odes by Q. Horatius Flaccus, and the City Poet of 1788.
  
Drink Away!
  
Drouthiness.
  
A FESTAL ODE.
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Lord Byron's Combolio.
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Royal Visit to Ireland.
  
Who wrote “The Groves of Blarney”?
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HORACE, BOOK FIRST.
  
O WEEP FOR ADONAIS, &C.
  
ELEGY ON MY TOMCAT.
  
PACKING UP AFTER AN ENGLISH COUNTRY BALL.
  
The Wine-Bibber's Glory—A New Song.
  
Critique on Lord Byron.
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Modern English Ballads.
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Moore-ish Melodies.
  
The Route.
  
A Happy New-Year.
  
Parody on Wordsworth.
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FRAGMENTS.
  
Song of the Sea.
  
SECOND EPODE OF HORACE DONE IN A NEW STYLE.
  
The Crabstick.
  
Sonnet.
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[The setting sun with crimson beam]
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[“Busy, curious, thirsty fly]

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Written extempore by a Gentleman, occasioned by a fly drinking out of his cup.

“Busy, curious, thirsty fly,
Drink with me and drink as I;
Freely welcome to my cup,
Couldst thou sip, and sip it up.
Make the most of life you may,
Life is short and fades away.
“Both alike are mine and thine,
Hastening quick to their decline;
Thine's a summer, mine no more,
Though repeated to threescore.
Threescore summers, when they're gone,
Will appear as short as one!
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