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A Character, Panegyric, And Description Of The Legion Club Jonathan Swift	Keeper, yon old dotard smoke, Sweetly snoring in his cloak: Who is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Loving-Cup Song Oliver Wendell Holmes	And if the crazy dotard ask, Is love worn...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Miller, His Son, And Their Ass Anne Kingsmill Finch	See, how with walking by that Dotard's side, The Boy is tir'd; whilst with a Prelate's state He rides alone, and dangling in...	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 Lord Byron	Limping Decorum lingers far behind: Vainly the dotard mends her prudish pace, Outstript and vanquish'd In the mental...	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	Limping Decorum lingers far behind; Vainly the dotard mends her prudish pace, Outstript and vanquish'd in the mental...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Apostrophe Charlotte Smith	Of mercenary beauty would engage The dotard fondness of decrepit age; All these, that during summer's halcyon days With their green...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 03 Sa di	and the boy complains that his father is a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childhood Alone Is Glad Charles Heavysege	We grow not merry though the dotard...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Conclusion Of A Letter To The Rev. Mr. C---. Mary Barber	(That he was a Dotard, is granted, I hope, Who dy'd for asserting the Rights of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Condolatory Address To Sarah, Countess Of Jersey, On The Prince Regent's Returning Her Picture To Mrs. Mee George Gordon Lord Byron	Albeit too dazzling for a dotard's sight; And those must wait till ev'ry charm is gone, To please the paltry heart that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy X. To Fortune, Suggesting His Motive for Repining at Her Dispensations William Shenstone	Let some dull dotard bask in thy gay shrine, As in the sun regales his wanton herd; Guiltless of envy, why should...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lochiel's Warning Thomas Campbell	Or, if gory Culloden so dreadful appear, Draw, dotard, around thy old wavering...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode III: To A Friend, Unsuccessful In Love Mark Akenside	Well-buried in a dotard's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Our Mistress and Our Queen Henry Lawson	Old dotards undetected, School boys that never tire, And lone hags unsuspected That drone beside the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tale XIV George Crabbe	Not like a Conscience of the dotard kind, Awake to dreams, to dire offences blind: Let all within be pure, in all beside Be your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Author. Charles Churchill	' Peace, peace, thou...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dog La Fontaine	An aged dotard, trembling with alarms, While she was young, and blessed with seraph...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Gascon Punished La Fontaine	(Her spouse, an aged dotard, worth a plum:-- Of those whose loss to mourn no tears e'er...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville	Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull, Pale ravener of horrible...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Palace of Humbug Lewis Carroll	And one, a dotard grim and gray, Who wasteth childhood's happy day In work more profitless than...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Precocious Baby - a Very True Tale William Schwenck Gilbert	No longer alive, He died an enfeebled old dotard at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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