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  1. Agrippina, a Tragedy  (19 results)
              P    whose care Poppaea had been entrusted by Otho, contrives the
              P    and brings Nero, as it were by chance, to the sight of the
              P    charms, and she, by a feigned resistance, increases his passion;
              P    readily persuaded by him to see Agrippina in secret, and
              P    death, and, by Anicetus's means, to destroy her by drowning. A
              P    after which she being to go by sea to Bauli, the ship is so
              P    contrived as to sink or crush her; she escapes by accident, and
              P    Poppaea; and being duped a second time by Anicetus and her,
              P    determines to fly with her into Greece, by means of a vessel
              P    which is to be furnished by Anicetus; but he, pretending to
          100    And Sylla has his friends, though schooled by fear
          110    Under the warlike Corbulo, by [me]
          111    Marked for their leader: these, by ties confirmed
          117    And mother of their Caesars. Ha! by Juno,
          131    Stung by a senseless word, a vain tradition,
          141    Roused by the shout of millions: there before
          175    Accept my vengeance. Though by me ye bled,
          191    By the young Trojan to his gilded bark

  2. The Bard. A Pindaric Ode  (18 results)
              3    'Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing
            38    'The famished eagle screams, and passes by.
            80    "Close by the regal chair
          127    'And truth severe, by fairy fiction dressed.
          136    'Raised by thy breath, has quenched the orb of day?
              P    — [By] The crested adder's pride.
              P    Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that mountainous tract, which
              P    of the castle of Conway built by King Edward the first, says, ''Ad ortum amnis Conway
              P    the rocks of Snowdon, which from thence (as some think) were named by the Welch
              P    published by Ray.] [John Ray (1627-1705) published (1676) and translated (London, 1678)
              P    Death of that King, abandoned by his Children, and even robbed in his last moments
              P    by his Courtiers and his Mistress [Alice Perrers, in 1377].
              P    Richard the Second, (as we are told by Archbishop Scroop and the confederate Lords
              P    in their manifesto, by Thomas of Walsingham, and all the older Writers)[,] was starved
              P    to death [in 1400]. The story of his assassination by Sir Piers of Exon, is of much later date.
              P    his own time by the name of the Boar.
              P    Speed relating an audience given by Queen Elizabeth to Paul Dzialinski, Ambassadour of Poland,
              P    thirteenth-century version and many of the poems in it may not be by Taliessin.]

  3. [The Alliance of Education and Government. A Fragment]  (6 results)
            10    Unformed, unfriended, by those kindly cares
            35    By fraud elude, by force repel the foe;
            38    Say then, through ages by what fate confined
            75    By Reason's light on Resolution's wings,
            95    They guard with spirit what by strength they gained;

  4. [Translation from Dante, Inferno Canto xxxiii 1-78]  (6 results)
            12    Won by thy tongue, declares thee. Know, thou see'st
            17    By trusting, and by treachery slain, it recks not
            30    Of Lucca, chased by hell-hounds gaunt and bloody
            34    Amain, my deadly foes, headed by this
            76    Died one by one. I saw 'em fall; I heard

  5. A Long Story  (5 results)
            42    (By this time all the parish know it)
            50    Swore by her coronet and ermine,
              P    N:B: the House was built by the Earls of Huntingdon, & came from them to
              P    S[i]r Christopher afterwards L[or]d Keeper, Hatton, prefer'd by Q: Elizabeth for his
              P    [Lord-Keeper] [Sir Christopher] Hatton [Lord Chancellor], prefer'd by

  6. The Descent of Odin. An Ode  (4 results)
            18    By the moss-grown pile he sate,
            62    By whom shall Hoder's blood be spilt.
            64    By Odin's fierce embrace compressed,
              P    to which were devoted all such as died of sickness, old-age, or by any other means

  7. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard  (4 results)
            81    Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse,
            95    If chance, by lonely Contemplation led,
          104    'And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
          105    'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn,

  8. [Translation from Statius, Thebaid VI 646-88, 704-24]  (4 results)
            14    By acclamations roused, came towering on.
            54    The sun's pale sister, drawn by magic strain,
            63    By Phlegyas warned and fired by Mnestheus' fate,

  9. [Impromptus]  (3 results)
              P    Extempore by Mr. Gr[ay]. on Dr. K[eene]. B[ishop]. of C[hester].
              8    Impromptu by Mr. Gray going out of Raby Castle
            10    A Couplet by Mr. Gray

  10. [Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude]  (3 results)
            20    The herd stood drooping by:
            38    Chastised by sabler tints of woe;
            58    Softly rolling side by side,

  11. On L[or]d H[olland']s Seat near M[argat]e, K[en]t  (3 results)
              1    Old and abandoned by each venal friend,
            21    Purged by the sword and beautified by fire,

  12. The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode  (3 results)
              P    when swoln and hurried away by the conflict of tumultuous passions.
              P    To compensate the real and imaginary ills of life, the Muse was given to Mankind by the
              P    same Providence that sends the Day by its chearful presence to dispel the gloom and

  13. The Fatal Sisters. An Ode  (2 results)
              P    greater loss by the death of Brian, their King, who fell in
              P    s.v. rifr) by nubes sagittarum, an error which Gray incorporated

  14. Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg: 5:  (2 results)
              7    Fast by the umbrageous vale lulled to repose,
              9    Or roused by sprightly sounds from out the trance,

  15. [Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern]  (2 results)
              P    [Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern]
            29    Frequented by the ghosts of ancient maids,

  16. Ode on the Spring  (2 results)
            38    Brushed by the hand of rough Mischance,
            39    Or chilled by age, their airy dance

  17. Ode to Adversity  (2 results)
            23    By vain Prosperity received,
            37    (As by the impious thou art seen)

  18. William Shakespeare to Mrs Anne, Regular Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of York  (2 results)
            12    By residence, by marriage, and sore eyes?

  19. The Characters of the Christ-Cross Row, By a Critic, To Mrs —  (1 result)
              P    The Characters of the Christ-Cross Row, By a Critic, To Mrs —

  20. [The Death of Hoel]  (1 result)
              6    By them my friend, my Hoel, died,

  21. Ode for Music  (1 result)
            34    'With Freedom by my side, and soft-eyed Melancholy.'

  22. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College  (1 result)
            41    Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,

  23. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes  (1 result)
            28    (Malignant Fate sat by, and smiled)

  24. Satire on the Heads of Houses; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring  (1 result)
            24    By the rest is enticed;

  25. Song I  (1 result)
              6    Sounds that steal from my tongue, by no meaning connected!

  26. Stanzas to Mr Bentley  (1 result)
              6        Fixed by his touch a lasting essence take;

  27. [Translation] From Tasso [Gerusalemme Liberata] Canto 14, Stanza 32-9.  (1 result)
            47    As when athwart the dusky woods by night

  28. The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment  (1 result)
            12    Side by side as proudly riding,

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