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41.
But you who seek to give and merit fame
First Line:
But you who seek to give and merit fame
Last Line:
Would all but stoop to what they understand
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
37113
42.
By custom doomed to folly sloth and ease
First Line:
By custom doomed to folly sloth and ease
Last Line:
And vie in fame with ancient Greece and Rome
DMI number:
33099
43.
By education nature is refined
First Line:
By education nature is refined
Last Line:
Of learning her power over all will rise
DMI number:
31183
44.
But human frailty nicely to unfold
First Line:
But human frailty nicely to unfold
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
10427
45.
But most by numbers judge a poet's song
First Line:
But most by numbers judge a poet's song
Last Line:
And what Timotheus was is Dryden now
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
37196
46.
But not alike to every mortal eye
First Line:
But not alike to every mortal eye
Last Line:
Enamoured they partake the eternal joy
Author:
Mark Akenside (Absolute)
DMI number:
37102
47.
But not our passions only disagree
First Line:
But not our passions only disagree
Last Line:
He passes on and only cries tis fine
Author:
Benjamin Stillingfleet (Absolute)
DMI number:
30898
48.
But should this muse harmonious numbers yield
First Line:
But should this muse harmonious numbers yield
Last Line:
Like goodly mountains till they reach the skies
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
10408
49.
But since the poets we of late have known
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But since the poets we of late have known
Last Line:
And sense no longer may submit to fools
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
10431
50.
But to make rage declaim and grief discourse
First Line:
But to make rage declaim and grief discourse
Last Line:
They sigh in simile and die in rhyme
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
10441
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