The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 |
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... present.col- lection , between four and five hundred plays , both tragedies and comedies ; for which latter species of poem , no other compiler seems to have had any relish . He has , however , admitted passages from an- cient comedies ...
... present.col- lection , between four and five hundred plays , both tragedies and comedies ; for which latter species of poem , no other compiler seems to have had any relish . He has , however , admitted passages from an- cient comedies ...
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... present crimes , Thou need'st not shrink at voice of after - times ; Whose knowledge claimeth at the helm to stand ; But wisely , thrufts not forth a forward hand , No more than Saluft in the Roman state : As then , his cause , his ...
... present crimes , Thou need'st not shrink at voice of after - times ; Whose knowledge claimeth at the helm to stand ; But wisely , thrufts not forth a forward hand , No more than Saluft in the Roman state : As then , his cause , his ...
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... present breath , a smoke foon gone : Or these dumb stones , erected for our fake : Which formless keeps few stormy changes make . : Daniel's Civil War . Now he o'er all will spread your praises forth , A famous witness of your glorious ...
... present breath , a smoke foon gone : Or these dumb stones , erected for our fake : Which formless keeps few stormy changes make . : Daniel's Civil War . Now he o'er all will spread your praises forth , A famous witness of your glorious ...
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... present quality of war Impede the instant act ; a cause on foot Lives so in hope , as in an early spring We fee th'appearing buds , which , to prove fruit , Hope gives not fo much warrant , as despair That frofts will bite them . When ...
... present quality of war Impede the instant act ; a cause on foot Lives so in hope , as in an early spring We fee th'appearing buds , which , to prove fruit , Hope gives not fo much warrant , as despair That frofts will bite them . When ...
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... Causeless fury . Webster's White Devil . They that have the yellow jaundice , think All objects they look on to be yellow : Jealousy is worse , her fits present a man , E 4 Like Like so many bubbles in a bason of water , JEA 79.
... Causeless fury . Webster's White Devil . They that have the yellow jaundice , think All objects they look on to be yellow : Jealousy is worse , her fits present a man , E 4 Like Like so many bubbles in a bason of water , JEA 79.
Términos y frases comunes
Atheist's Tragedy baſe Beaumont and Fletcher's becauſe beſt blood cauſe Chapman's cloſe courſe Crown's Daniel's Davenant's Gondibert death defire diſeaſe doth elſe Ev'n ev'ry eyes falſe fame fear fire firſt fleep fome foon foul fuch give Gondibert greatneſs hath heart heav'n honour houſe Ibid itſelf Johnson's juſt juſtice kings kiſs laſt leſs live Lord Brooke's loſe Love's Lover's Melancholy luft Maffinger's mind Mirror for Magistrates miſchief moſt muſt nature ne'er never night o'er ourſelves paſſion pleaſe pleaſure poor pow'r praiſe preſent princes reaſon reſt Revenger's Tragedy riſe ſame ſave ſay ſcorn ſee ſeem ſeen Sejanus ſenſe ſet Shakespear's Shakespear's Hamlet ſhall ſhame ſhe ſhew Shirley's ſhould Siege of Rhodes ſmall ſome ſpeak ſpirit ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtrive ſtrong ſubject ſuch ſure ſweet thee themſelves theſe things thoſe thou unto uſe virtue Whilft whoſe
Pasajes populares
Página 170 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Página 19 - To the tent-royal of their ( emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.
Página 164 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 109 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 276 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Página 76 - Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt ; For she had eyes, and chose me. No, lago ; I'll see before I doubt ; when I doubt, prove ; And on the proof, there is no more but this, — Away at once with love or jealousy ! lago.
Página 236 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Página 73 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 149 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Página 276 - For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.