Read full poem →on Queen Elizabeth's night. The poet had probably, since his change
of religion, laid aside much of the hereditary respect with which
most Englishmen regard Queen Bess; for, in the pamphlets of the
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A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
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. hereditaryright hereditaryfactors hereditarysuccession hereditaryprince hereditarymonarchy hereditary
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Poetry examples for “hereditary”
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Read full poem →candidate, whose right, had he ever attained the crown, must have
fluctuated betwixt an elective and hereditary title. The consciousness
of how much he was to depend upon Shaftesbury's arts, for stating
Read full poem →Man looks aloft, and, with erected eyes,
Beholds his own hereditary skies.--
From such rude principles our form began,
Read full poem →fnowt and ithremiiicable that the itihabibliW
of<»e fide 'masbtaini^ hereditary txA imj^lsica*
Ue ^frfrity ^gaiiift thoie of the ot&er ;,^hile
Read full poem →But how canst thou support the woes of exile?
Canst thou forget hereditary splendours,
To live obscure upon a foreign coast,
Read full poem →have heard from the late earl of Orrery, who was likely to have good
hereditary intelligence, that lord Buckhurst had been a week employed
upon it, and only retouched or finished it on the memorable evening. But
Read full poem →My Father dared his greedy wish gainsay;
He loved his old hereditary nook,
And ill could I the thought of such sad parting brook. 1798.