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Subject: PHILIPS, AMBROSE (1674-1749)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "A LADY'S ANSWER TO MR. AMBROSE PHILIP'S POEM, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "bloom of wit, and choicest flow'r"
Last Line: Thin as the thinnest blossom blows
Subject(s): "philips, Ambrose (1674-1749);


"ON A YOUNG LADY'S FAVOURITE CAT, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "happy puss, indulg'd to sip"
Last Line: "tho admires, admiring dies"
Subject(s): "animals;cats;philips, Ambrose (1674-1749);


CHRISTMAS BOX FOR NAMBY PAMBY, SELS., by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the day is almost peeping
Last Line: Fit for namby to rehearse
Subject(s): Christmas; Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)


COPY OF VERSES UPON TWO CELEBRATED MODERN POETS, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold those monarch oaks that rise
Last Line: Should young and philips drudge together
Subject(s): Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749); Young, Edward (1683-1765)


LINES IN CONCLUSION OF A SATIRE, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But what avails to lay down rules for sense?
Last Line: When ambrose philips was preferr'd for wit!
Subject(s): Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)


MACER: A CHARACTER, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When simple macer, now of high renown
Last Line: To bawd for others, and go shares with punk.
Subject(s): Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)


NAMBY-PAMBY. A PANEGYRIC ON THE NEW VERSIFICATION, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye poets of the age
Last Line: To his genius victims fall.
Subject(s): Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749); Poetry & Poets


ODE TO DAPHNIS A PUPPY, PLAYING WITH MIRTILLA IN BED, SELS., by JOHN STACIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Happy daphnis, which can be
Last Line: Happiest thou of sons of bitches
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)


ON WINTER (IN IMITATION OF AN EPISTLE BY AMBROSE PHILIPS), by MARY LEAPOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What pictures now shall wanton fancy bring?
Last Line: And how can phoebus, who the muse refines, %smooth the dull numbers when he seldom shines
Subject(s): Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)


SHOE-HEEL; A RHAPSODY, SELS., by JOSEPH+(1) MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: For, (wonderful to tell!) as stradling
Last Line: When then shou'd happen, and were bless'd of heav'n
Subject(s): Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)


THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of gentle philips will I ever sing
Last Line: And from all wits that have a knack gad save ye.
Subject(s): Budgell, Eustace (1686-1737); Carey, Walter (1686-1757); Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)