Read full poem →No young divine, new-beneficed, can be
More pert, more proud, more positive than he.
What further could I wish the fop to do,
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Poetry examples for “pert”
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Read full poem →And, by my interest, Cozens made her stays.
Ungrateful wretch! with mimic airs grown pert,
She dares to steal my favourite lover's heart.
Read full poem →Her tongue still ran on credit from her eyes,
More pert than witty, more a wit than wise:
Good-nature, she declared it, was her scorn,
Read full poem →The tongue is left without a sound.
The pert and forward things that dare
Their talk in every maiden's ear,
Read full poem →Through which the poppies show their scarlet coats;
So pert and useless, that they bring to mind
The scarlet coats that pester human-kind.
Read full poem →Through which the poppies show their scarlet coats
So pert and useless, that they bring to mind
The scarlet coats that pester human-kind.
Read full poem →Ye news-paper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks
Who copied his squibs, and re-echoed his jokes;
Read full poem →With science poorly mask their hurt;
And vex the gods with question pert,
Immensely curious whether you
Read full poem →Says swelling Crispin, 'begg'd a cobbler's vote;'
'This night our wit,' the pert apprentice cries,
'Lies at my feet; I hiss him, and he dies.'