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Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend's Amour.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

The sole point of interest is the long and laudatory tribute to her friend Aaron Hill in "A Pastoral Dialogue, between Alexis and Clarinda; Occasioned by Hillarius's intending a Voyage to America."

From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie

So pass by all alarm, And trembling, and bustle, and terror, Occasioned within: The first stone at sin Let him cast who, himself, hath no error!

From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Cooper, Thomas

Occasioned by reading his Poem, at the end of The Corsair, beginning: "Weep, Daughter of a Royal Line."

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle

Occasioned by putting him on shore at the Island of Sapola, for theft Since Nature taught you, Tray, to be a thief, What blame have you, for working at your trade?

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip