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Reminiscences, in Prose and Verse

Consisting of the Epistolary Correspondence of Many Distinguished Characters. With Notes and Illustrations. By the Rev. R. Polwhele

Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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VOL. II.

SONNET, Written February 24th, between three and four in the afternoon, when the funeral procession was advancing towards Truro, and the minute bell at St. Mary's tolling:—

Madam Cant to Miss Pert.

[Alas! such idle hours are fled]

[His perilous state if not resembling]

THE LAMP.

THE GOUT.

THE TARTAR.

The last-left Evening Primrose

On an Apple-tree full of blossom, Sept. 11th

[------“'Twas my lot, ere long to roam]

[The historian tells us, that Caligula—]

TRURO.

Truro Ten-pounders.

[Lunching with Baucis and Philemon]

[Herod the bawling brats of Bedlam]

The Impromptu

THE PARENTS TO THEIR CHILDREN ON THE 1ST OF JANUARY, 1834.

THE SABBATH-EVENING WALK.

[A tissue but of joy and grief]

[Ah! who are they that have not lost]

[Where roars the Westering surge—“Lo! Methodism]

[Peace officers! four doughty fellows!]

[Silent, stant auribus erectis”—]

[Though here, not much renown'd for Beauty]

[“Nor Roman prow, nor daring Tyrian oar]

[Lo, at long intervals, the rage is]

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VOL. III.

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Reminiscences, in Prose and Verse

Consisting of the Epistolary Correspondence of Many Distinguished Characters. With Notes and Illustrations. By the Rev. R. Polwhele

Richard Polwhele

1760-1838

University of Virginia Library

Reminiscences, in Prose and Verse

Consisting of the Epistolary Correspondence of Many Distinguished Characters. With Notes and Illustrations. By the Rev. R. Polwhele

Richard Polwhele

J. B. Nichols and Son ... Sold also by Messrs. Rivington

London

1836