Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Band 1Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 |
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... Sweet Neglect , 113 82 Hymn to Diana , 113 JOHN HARRINGTON , 82 To Night , 113 Sonnet made on Isabella Markham , 82 Song- ( Oh do not wanton with those eyes ) , 113 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , 82 To Celia , 113 Sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney , 82 ...
... Sweet Neglect , 113 82 Hymn to Diana , 113 JOHN HARRINGTON , 82 To Night , 113 Sonnet made on Isabella Markham , 82 Song- ( Oh do not wanton with those eyes ) , 113 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , 82 To Celia , 113 Sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney , 82 ...
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... ( Sweet woman is like the fair flower in its BERNARD MANDEVILLE , 624 lustre ) , • 573 Flattery of the Great , 624 The Poet and the Rose , 573 Society Compared to a Bowl of Punch , 624 The Court of Death , 574 Pomp and Superfluity , 625 ...
... ( Sweet woman is like the fair flower in its BERNARD MANDEVILLE , 624 lustre ) , • 573 Flattery of the Great , 624 The Poet and the Rose , 573 Society Compared to a Bowl of Punch , 624 The Court of Death , 574 Pomp and Superfluity , 625 ...
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... sweet verse . " † Cædmon thus composed many poems on the Bible histories , and on miscellaneous religious subjects , and some of these have been preserved . His account of the Fall of Man is somewhat like that given in Paradise Lost ...
... sweet verse . " † Cædmon thus composed many poems on the Bible histories , and on miscellaneous religious subjects , and some of these have been preserved . His account of the Fall of Man is somewhat like that given in Paradise Lost ...
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... sweet semblant . Her attire full well it seemed , Mervelik the king she queemed.12 Of our measure was he glad , For of that maiden he wax all mad . Drunkenness the fiend wrought , Of that paen 13 was all his thought . A mischance that ...
... sweet semblant . Her attire full well it seemed , Mervelik the king she queemed.12 Of our measure was he glad , For of that maiden he wax all mad . Drunkenness the fiend wrought , Of that paen 13 was all his thought . A mischance that ...
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... sweet - farewell mine Emily ! And softe take me in your armes tway For love of God , and hearkeneth what I say . ' I have here with my cousin Palamon Had strife and rancour many a day agone For love of you , and for my jealousy ; And ...
... sweet - farewell mine Emily ! And softe take me in your armes tway For love of God , and hearkeneth what I say . ' I have here with my cousin Palamon Had strife and rancour many a day agone For love of you , and for my jealousy ; And ...
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Seite 185 - Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men;) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Seite 132 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Seite 329 - MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Seite 107 - Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it : for I love you so. That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Seite 395 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Seite 331 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Seite 333 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Seite 243 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Seite 187 - To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Seite 334 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...