 The shelves around,* Convulsive, gave a hideous groan profound ; The Baviad thrice, in sympathetic pain, Open'd its filial leaves, and clos'd again : The parrot burst her cage, loquacious fowl! And on the chimney perch'd the mystic owl : When lo ! dilated...  The Harp of Erin: Containing the Poetical Works - Page 23by Thomas Dermody - 1807Full view - About this book
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...around *, Convulsive, gave a hideous groan profound ; The Baviad thrice, in sympathetic pain, Opeu'd its filial leaves, and clos'd again ; The parrot burst...might ; In breadth a hogshead, and a tow'r in height ; 'f * For an illustration of the prodigies, vide Homer, Virgil, Statius, and Aristotle's Masteipiece.... | |
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...hideous groan profound ; The BAVIAD thrice, in sympathetic pain, Open'd its filial leaves, and clo*'d again ; The parrot burst her cage, loquacious fowl!...And on the chimney perch'd the mystic owl ; When lo I dilated into tenfoWjnight, In breadth a hogshead, and a tower in height • Tht very worit door in... | |
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