Selected PoemsCarcanet, 1979 - 95 Seiten A selection of the poetry of John Gay (1685-1732) who was part of the 'association of wits' that included Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. His wit is characterised by a benign and ironic sense of the fallibility of humankind. |
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... Lobbin Clout , Cuddy , Cloddipole Lobbin Clout Thy Younglings , Cuddy , are but just awake , No Thrustles shrill the Bramble - Bush forsake , No chirping Lark the Welkin sheen invokes , No Damsel yet the swelling Udder strokes ; O'er ...
... Lobbin Clout , Cuddy , Cloddipole Lobbin Clout Thy Younglings , Cuddy , are but just awake , No Thrustles shrill the Bramble - Bush forsake , No chirping Lark the Welkin sheen invokes , No Damsel yet the swelling Udder strokes ; O'er ...
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... Lobbin Clout Ah Blouzelind ! I love thee more by half , Than Does their Fawns , or Cows the new - fall'n Calf : Woe worth the Tongue ! may Blisters sore it gall , That names Buxoma , Blouzelind withal . Cuddy Hold , witless Lobbin Clout ...
... Lobbin Clout Ah Blouzelind ! I love thee more by half , Than Does their Fawns , or Cows the new - fall'n Calf : Woe worth the Tongue ! may Blisters sore it gall , That names Buxoma , Blouzelind withal . Cuddy Hold , witless Lobbin Clout ...
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... Lobbin Clout As once I play'd at Blindman's - buff , it hapt About my Eyes the Towel thick was wrapt . I miss'd the Swains , and seiz'd on Blouzelind ; True speaks that ancient Proverb , Love is blind . Cuddy As at Hot - Cockles once I ...
... Lobbin Clout As once I play'd at Blindman's - buff , it hapt About my Eyes the Towel thick was wrapt . I miss'd the Swains , and seiz'd on Blouzelind ; True speaks that ancient Proverb , Love is blind . Cuddy As at Hot - Cockles once I ...
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Introduction | 7 |
Chronology of Life and Works | 18 |
The Proeme | 25 |
Urheberrecht | |
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adown Aeneid Alexander Pope Ambrose Philips apes Barnstaple Beauty Beggar's Opera Blouzelind Bowzybeus Breast Burthen aid Buxoma Cheek Cloddipole Clown Coaches Crouds Cuddy Dame Dews Doris Dunciad e'er Eclogues ev'ry Eyes Fable fair feast flame flies Fyfield Gay's gen'ral Georgic Hand hard so true hath Heav'n honour hound human imitation John Gay Labour laugh Lobbin Clout Love Maid Melanthe Laura Menston miry moral Morning Muse ne'er never Night nymph o'er parody pastoral Philips plain poem poet poetry Pope Pope's Pow'r produced and published Proeme Rain rais'd reply'd Saloninus Samuel Johnson satire says Scriblerian Scriblerus Club se defendendo Shepherd's Week Shoes Show'rs sing Sire Skies smoaks Song Sparabella Squire stolen love strait Street Swain Sylvia taste thee Theocritus thou thro Tis hard Toil Tongue tread Trivia true a Damsel vent'rous Virgil virtue Walkers Winds Wine Winter's words ye Lasses Youth