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A Paralell Between Bowling And Preferment William Strode	Preferment, like a Game at bowles, To feede our hope...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Soaring Toad Ambrose Bierce	I humbly told you many moons ago For high preferment you were all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Tale of the Miser and the Poet Anne Kingsmill Finch	Then, never more from your Endeavours Expect Preferment, or less...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Apology For My Son To His Master, For Not Bringing An Exercise On The Coronation Day. Mary Barber	-- We shall not rise: In vain should at Preferment aim, Whilst Strangers make their happier...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Invective Written By Mr. George Chapman Against Mr. Ben Jonson George Chapman	Yet are thy learn'd admirers so deep set In thy preferment above all that cite The sun in challenge for the heat and light Of heaven's influences which...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Consolatorium, Ad Parentes William Strode	Then thinke what both your glories are In her preferment: for tis farre Nobler to gett a Saint, and beare A childe to Heaven than an Heyre To a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epilogue To "Mithridates, King Of Pontus;" By Nathan Lee, 1678. John Dryden	Let honour and preferment go for gold; But glorious beauty is not to be sold: Or, if it be, 'tis at a rate so high,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epilogue to The Husband His Own Cuckold John Dryden	I warrant that ne'er spoiled a priest's preferment; Wit's not his business, and as wit now goes, Sirs, 'tis not so much yours as you suppose, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Granta: A Medley George Gordon Lord Byron	Fellows are sage, reflecting men: They know preferment can occur But very seldom, – now and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jones M.P. Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	To the promise of preferment, And - there happened the interment Of the self-respecting Jones of other...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Night. An Epistle To Robert Lloyd. Charles Churchill	Demurely sly, with high preferment bless'd, His favourite pupil in these words address'd:-- Wouldst thou, my son, be wise...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Proem. Robert Crawford	To the rank world's preferment, failing which, Mere poets must have a bad time of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Author Charles Churchill	And proud Preferment rolls her golden...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Author. Charles Churchill	And proud Preferment rolls her golden...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Beasts' Confession Jonathan Swift	He might, if he were worldly wise, Preferment get and spare his eyes: But own'd he had a stubborn spirit, That made him trust alone in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Brass-Pot And Stone-Jugg Anne Kingsmill Finch	That in a Croud cou'd shove and bustle, And to Preferment bear the Justle; When the first Knock would break His Measures, And stop his Rise to Place...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Character Of A Good Parson. Imitated From Chaucer, And Enlarged John Dryden	To chaffer for preferment with his gold, Where bishoprics and sinecures are sold; But duly watched his flock, by night...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Conference. Charles Churchill	Shall some preferment, offer'd at a time When Virtue sleeps, some sacrifice to Pride, Or some fair victim, move...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Duke and the Duchess William Schwenck Gilbert	To any one's fitness To fill any place or preferment; We're often in waiting At junket FETING, And sometimes attend an...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Scholar-Gipsy Matthew Arnold	Who, tired of knocking at preferment's door, One summer-morn forsook His friends, and went to learn the gipsy-lore, And roam'd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) Samuel Johnson	73 Unnumber'd suppliants crowd Preferment's gate, 74 Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great; 75 Delusive Fortune hears...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Im Samuel Johnson	Unnumber'd suppliants crowd Preferment's gate, Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great; Delusive Fortune hears th'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vicar Of Bray Anonymous Americas	And so I gain'd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To My Own Minature Picture Taken At Two Years Of Age Robert Southey	That thou shouldst tread PREFERMENT'S pleasant...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Wait till the Majesty of Death Emily Dickinson	Robes That Democrat is dressed, Then prate about "Preferment"— And "Station," and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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