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A Fragment Of A Poem. Alexander Pope	The sowzing prelate, or the sweating peer, Drag out, with all its dirt and all its weight, The lumbering carriage...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Miller, His Son, And Their Ass Anne Kingsmill Finch	The Boy is tir'd; whilst with a Prelate's state He rides alone, and dangling in the Seat, Hangs like a Calf thrown up, across the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Account Of The Greatest English Poets Joseph Addison	Employ'd the Tuneful Prelate in thy Praise: Blest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bonaparte Sir Walter Scott	That Prelate mark'd his march—On banners blaz'd With battles won in many a distant...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistle To The Bishop Of Landaff. William Hayley	Thy fav'rite Prelate haste, my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistles To Mr. Pope. Epistle I. Edward Young	The purple prelate, or the parish clerk; The quiet quidnunc, or demanding prig; The plaintiff tory, or defendant...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Excerpt from Speke, Parrot John Skelton	So rygorous revelyng1 in a prelate specially ; So bold and so braggyng, and was so baselye borne ; So lordlye of hys lokes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fidele's Grassy Tomb Sir Henry Newbolt	Doubtless he lived as a Prelate and Prince, And died and was buried a century...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Merry Andrew Matthew Prior	A reverend prelate stopp'd his couch-and-six To laugh a little at our Andrew's tricks: But when he heard him...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Religion Andrew Barton Paterson	Let the mighty Crown Prelate in Church pander zeal, Let the Mussulman worship...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Bishop Atterbury's Burying The Duke Of Buckingham, 1721 Matthew Prior	In sure and certain hopes - the prelate cries: Of these two learned peers, I pr'ythee say, man, Who is the lying knave, the priest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament John Milton	Because you have thrown off your Prelate Lord, And with stiff vows renounced his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Raphael's Death Bed Letitia Elizabeth Landon	While the arch prelate's hand uplifts the shroud,— Flings, from the silver cup, the sacred wave, Which sains and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Suum Cuique John Dryden	I should admit the booted prelate now, But he is even for lampoon too low; The scum and outcast of a royal race, The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Author Upon Himself Jonathan Swift	A crazy prelate, and a royal prude; By dull divines, who...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bishop and the Busman William Schwenck Gilbert	He wedded in a year That prelate's daughter JANE, He's grown quite fair - has auburn hair - His wife is far from...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Cenci : A Tragedy In Five Acts Percy Bysshe Shelley	Orsino, a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Character Of A Good Parson. Imitated From Chaucer, And Enlarged John Dryden	The prelate, for his holy life he prized; The worldly pomp of prelacy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Columbiad: Book IV Joel Barlow	O hapless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Convocation: A Poem Richard Savage	An Erring Prelate let thy Lays proclaim, And sing the Convocation's sacred...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Falcon Richard Lovelace	Doctor robbin, the prelate pye, And the poetick swan, shall dye, Only to sing thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ghost - Book IV Charles Churchill	Announcing them for orders fit; So that the prelate (what's a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Guardian Of The Red Disk Emma Lazarus	His looks sustain his deeds,-the perfect prelate, Whose void chair shall be taken, but not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Harp Of Hoel William Lisle Bowles	lifting high his hand, The white-robed prelate cried: Arise, arise, at Christ's command, To fight for his name in the Holy Land, Where a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pilgrim's Fathers John Boyle O'Reilly	Till England meant but monarch, prelate,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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