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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... fame Your virtues , I so few of them proclaim , That many more are left behind unprais'd , Than those , which on this poem's wings are rais'd . How glad will all discreeter poets be , Because , whilft in their choice they difagree ...
... fame Your virtues , I so few of them proclaim , That many more are left behind unprais'd , Than those , which on this poem's wings are rais'd . How glad will all discreeter poets be , Because , whilft in their choice they difagree ...
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... fame colour that the vessel is That doth contain it ; varying his form With the camelion at each object's change . My tongue must With paffionate oaths and protestations , With fighs , smooth glances , and officious terms , Spread ...
... fame colour that the vessel is That doth contain it ; varying his form With the camelion at each object's change . My tongue must With paffionate oaths and protestations , With fighs , smooth glances , and officious terms , Spread ...
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... fame blows ; that praise , fole pure tran- fcends . Shakespear's Troilus and Creffida . Your praise is come too swiftly home before you : Know you not , master , to some kind of men , Their graces serve them but as enemies ? No more do ...
... fame blows ; that praise , fole pure tran- fcends . Shakespear's Troilus and Creffida . Your praise is come too swiftly home before you : Know you not , master , to some kind of men , Their graces serve them but as enemies ? No more do ...
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... Fame and Honour . Too eager a defence argues a strong Oppofition ; and too veh'ment a praise , Draws a fufpicion of others worthy disparagement . Set tapers to bright day , it ill befits ; Good wines can vent themselves , and not good ...
... Fame and Honour . Too eager a defence argues a strong Oppofition ; and too veh'ment a praise , Draws a fufpicion of others worthy disparagement . Set tapers to bright day , it ill befits ; Good wines can vent themselves , and not good ...
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... fame , That all are strangers to each others eyes . How far is it to heav'n , that yet this lady's Mournings are not heard ? for if they were , my Suff'rings and my guilt would cease ; or cannot Our petitions climb , and get access as ...
... fame , That all are strangers to each others eyes . How far is it to heav'n , that yet this lady's Mournings are not heard ? for if they were , my Suff'rings and my guilt would cease ; or cannot Our petitions climb , and get access as ...
Términos y frases comunes
Aleyn's Barons Wars baſe Beaumont and Fletcher's becauſe beſt blood cauſe Chapman's courſe Crown's Daniel's Davenant's Gondibert defire diſeaſe doth Drayton's eaſe elſe ev'n ev'ry eyes fair falſe fame fear fecret firſt fome forrow foul fuch Gondibert greatneſs grief hath heart heav'n Henry VII honour Ibid itſelf Johnson's juſt king leſs live Lord Brooke's loſe Maffinger's man's Marston's maſters Mirror for Magistrates moſt muſt Nabbs's ne'er never ourſelves paſſion paſt pleaſe pleaſure poor pow'r praiſe preſent princes raiſe reaſon reſpect revenge Revenger's Tragedy riſe ſay ſcarce ſcorn ſee ſeem ſeen Sejanus ſenſe ſerve ſervice ſet Shakespear's Shakespear's Hamlet ſhall ſhame ſhe ſhew Shirley's ſhould Sir John Davies ſmall ſome ſpeak ſpirits ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate Sterline's ſtill ſtrength ſtrive ſtrong ſubject ſuch ſweet ſword thee theſe things thoſe thou unto uſe valour vertue virtue Whilft whoſe wife 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.