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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... heav'n ? Heav'n , the perfection of all that can Be said , or thought , riches , delight , or harmony , Health , beauty ; and all these not subject to The waste of time ; but in their height eternal ; Loft for a penfion , or poor spot ...
... heav'n ? Heav'n , the perfection of all that can Be said , or thought , riches , delight , or harmony , Health , beauty ; and all these not subject to The waste of time ; but in their height eternal ; Loft for a penfion , or poor spot ...
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... Heav'n is a great way off , and I shall be Ten thousand years in travel , yet ' twere happy If I may find a lodging there at last , Though my poor foul get thither upon crutches . Shirley's Duke's Mistress . This law the heav'ns ...
... Heav'n is a great way off , and I shall be Ten thousand years in travel , yet ' twere happy If I may find a lodging there at last , Though my poor foul get thither upon crutches . Shirley's Duke's Mistress . This law the heav'ns ...
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... heav'n's beggar ; and what woman is So foolish to keep honesty , And be not able to keep her self ? no , Times are grown wiser , and will keep less charge : A maid that has small portion , now intends To break up house , and live upon ...
... heav'n's beggar ; and what woman is So foolish to keep honesty , And be not able to keep her self ? no , Times are grown wiser , and will keep less charge : A maid that has small portion , now intends To break up house , and live upon ...
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... heav'n . Wilkins's Miseries of enforced Marriage . To all marry'd men be this a caution , Which they should duly tender as their life ; Neither to doat too much , nor doubt a wife . A narrow minded husband is a thief Maffinger's Picture ...
... heav'n . Wilkins's Miseries of enforced Marriage . To all marry'd men be this a caution , Which they should duly tender as their life ; Neither to doat too much , nor doubt a wife . A narrow minded husband is a thief Maffinger's Picture ...
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... name Of virtues worth in dust of dunghill shame , Whom action out of dust to light doth bring , And makes her mount to heav'n with golden wing , Mirror for Magistrates . Thofe IDL Those wounds heal ill , that men do give 72 IDL TH ...
... name Of virtues worth in dust of dunghill shame , Whom action out of dust to light doth bring , And makes her mount to heav'n with golden wing , Mirror for Magistrates . Thofe IDL Those wounds heal ill , that men do give 72 IDL TH ...
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.