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A Friendly Apology For A Certain Justice Of Peace By Way Of Defence Of Hartley Hutcheson, Esq. By James Black-Well, Operator For The Feet Jonathan Swift	For Hartley was before unknown, Contemn'd I mean; - for who would chuse So vile a subject for the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Affected Indifference - To The Same; Ode IV Mark Akenside	contemn the perjur'd maid Who all your favorite...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Answer To Some Elegant Verses Sent By A Friend To The Author, Complaining That One Of His Descriptions Was Rather Too Warmly Drawn. George Gordon Byron	Let those, whose souls contemn the pleasing power, Their censures on the hapless victim...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto The Third. George Gordon Byron	That just habitual scorn, which could contemn Men and their thoughts; 'twas wise to feel, not so To wear it ever on thy lip and brow, And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III [excerpt] George Gordon Byron	That just habitual scorn, which could contemn Men and their thoughts; 'twas wise to feel, not so To wear it ever on thy lip and brow, And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss] George Gordon Byron	I deny, Admit, reject, contemn; and what know you, Except perhaps that you were born to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don Juan: Canto The Fourteenth George Gordon Lord Byron	I deny, Admit, reject, contemn; and what know you, Except perhaps that you were born to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Economy, A Rhapsody, Addressed to Young Poets William Shenstone	Him we deride, and in our comic scenes Contemn the niggard form Moliere has drawn: We loathe with justice; but,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XVI. He Suggests the Advantage of Birth To a Person of Merit William Shenstone	Not unregarded sighs the lowly hind; Though you contemn, the gods respect his vow; Vindictive rage awaits the scornful mind, And vengeance, too...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistle To A Friend, On The Divinity Of Our Saviour. William Hayley	Tho' by the thankless tribes revil'd,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love Of Fame, The Universal Passion. Satire III. Edward Young	Praise, and the glory to contemn it,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Madrigal Arthur Symons	Let simple lovers if they will Contemn us, we outwit them...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mar. Lib. Iv. Ep. 33. Richard Lovelace	So she, who in her life time was contemn'd, Ev'n in her very funerals is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode IV: Affected Indifference. To The Same Mark Akenside	Yes: you contemn the perjur'd maid Who all your favorite...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of the Death of Sir T.W. the Elder Henry Howard	Vice to contemn, in virtue to rejoice; Amid great storms, whom grace assured so To live upright and smile...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prelude George Wither	Thou dost teach me to contemn What makes knaves and fools of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prelude From The Shepherd's Hunting George Wither	Thou dost teach me to contemn What makes knaves and fools of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stanzas To Augusta (II.) George Gordon Lord Byron	They may crush, but they shall not contemn; They may torture, but shall not subdue me 'Tis of thee that I think - not of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Convocation: A Poem Richard Savage	By some admired, and by some contemn'd, Prais'd by the Vulgar, by his Peers...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Epicure Abraham Cowley	Crown'd with roses we contemn Gyge's wealthy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hymn Anne Kingsmill Finch	From my contemn'd Retreat, obscure and low, As Grots from when the Winds disperse, May this His Praise...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Little People Victor James Daley	Would ye, therefore, their might...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Marigold George Wither	By an inferior eye, or did contemn To wait upon a meaner light than him; When this I meditate, methinks the flowers Have spirits...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Muse George Wither	Thou dost teach me to contemn What makes knaves and fools of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Alfred Tennyson - 1883 Robert Fuller Murray	As churls, who hear it hour by hour, Contemn the skylark's minstrelsy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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