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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... loft : one cloud of winter - fhow'rs ' Thefe flies are couch'd . 2. The fwallow follows not Summer more willingly , than we your lordship . 1. Nor more willingly leaves winter : fuch fummer- Birds are men.- May you a better feaft never ...
... loft : one cloud of winter - fhow'rs ' Thefe flies are couch'd . 2. The fwallow follows not Summer more willingly , than we your lordship . 1. Nor more willingly leaves winter : fuch fummer- Birds are men.- May you a better feaft never ...
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... loft for ever ? For he that makes his laft peace with his maker In anger ; anger is his peace eternally : He muft expect the fame return again , Whose venture is deceitful . Middleton and Rowley's Fair Quarrel . But by his heralds firft ...
... loft for ever ? For he that makes his laft peace with his maker In anger ; anger is his peace eternally : He muft expect the fame return again , Whose venture is deceitful . Middleton and Rowley's Fair Quarrel . But by his heralds firft ...
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... loft his Pearl . Fathers that deny their daughters lawful Pleasures , when ripe for them ; in fome kind , edge Their appetites , to tafte of the fruit that Is Their 6 PAR They which furvive will the best trophies be, ...
... loft his Pearl . Fathers that deny their daughters lawful Pleasures , when ripe for them ; in fome kind , edge Their appetites , to tafte of the fruit that Is Their 6 PAR They which furvive will the best trophies be, ...
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... loft limb ; who ere they fhew their art , Caft one afleep , then cut the difeas'd part : So out of love to her I pity moft , She fhall not feel him going till he's loft ; Then fhe'll commend the cure . Middleton's Women beware Women ...
... loft limb ; who ere they fhew their art , Caft one afleep , then cut the difeas'd part : So out of love to her I pity moft , She fhall not feel him going till he's loft ; Then fhe'll commend the cure . Middleton's Women beware Women ...
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... loft , and ruin must attend it . Nabbs's Microcofmus . Pleasures whofe means are easy , in the end Do lose themselves . Things only are esteem'd And And valu'd by their acquifition . Should you win her 26 PLE That pleasure is of all ...
... loft , and ruin must attend it . Nabbs's Microcofmus . Pleasures whofe means are easy , in the end Do lose themselves . Things only are esteem'd And And valu'd by their acquifition . Should you win her 26 PLE That pleasure is of all ...
Términos y frases comunes
againſt Aleyn's Atheist's Tragedy bafe Barons Wars Beaumont and Fletcher's becauſe beft beſt blood Catiline caufe cauſe Chapman's Crown's Cymbeline Daniel's Davenant's Gondibert defire doth Drayton's ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe fame fcorn fear fecret feek feem fenfe ferve fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt flave fome forrow foul fpirits ftate ftill ftrength ftrong fubjects fuch fure Gondibert grief hath heart heav'n Henry VII himſelf honour Ibid itſelf Johnson's king lefs live loft Lord Brooke's Lover's Melancholy luft man's Marfton's Mirror for Magiftrates moft moſt muft muſt Nabbs's ne'er never paffion pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe princes puniſhment reafon revenge Revenger's Tragedy rife Sejanus Shakespear's Shakespear's Hamlet ſhall ſhe Shirley's Sir John Davies ſtate Sterline's ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou unto uſe valour vertue virtue Volpone Whilft whofe whoſe wife women Women beware Women
Pasajes populares
Página 309 - And new philosophy calls all in doubt; The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and th' earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it.
Página 199 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 22 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Página 88 - I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness ; Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
Página 19 - Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
Página 43 - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence. What then? what rests? Try what repentance can: what can it not? Yet what can it, when one can not repent? O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged! Help, angels! make assay; Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All may be well.
Página 104 - Mongst quiet kindred that had nothing left By their dead parents : ' Stay,' quoth Reputation, ' Do not forsake me ; for it is my nature, If once I part from any man I meet, I am never found again.
Página 114 - Now might I do it, pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't...
Página 21 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Página 105 - A real, or at least, a seeming good. Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name, And, free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Thus he the church at once protects and spoils ; But princes' swords are sharper than their styles : And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends.