Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1788 |
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... bliss , There drinks she nectar with ambrosia mixt , 195 And joys enjoys that mortal men do miss . The honour now of highest gods she is , That whylom was poor shepherds ' pride , While here on earth she did abide . O happy herse ...
... bliss , There drinks she nectar with ambrosia mixt , 195 And joys enjoys that mortal men do miss . The honour now of highest gods she is , That whylom was poor shepherds ' pride , While here on earth she did abide . O happy herse ...
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... bliss , Where thou dost sit in Venus ' lap above , Bathing thy wings in her ambrosial kiss , That sweeter far than any nectar is ; Come softly , and my feeble breast inspire With gentle fury , kindled of thy fire . And ye , sweet Muses ...
... bliss , Where thou dost sit in Venus ' lap above , Bathing thy wings in her ambrosial kiss , That sweeter far than any nectar is ; Come softly , and my feeble breast inspire With gentle fury , kindled of thy fire . And ye , sweet Muses ...
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... bliss seems vain : Thrise happy Man ! might he the same possess , He fains himself , and doth his fortune bless . 195 200 205 210 And though he do not win his wish to end , Yet thus far happy he himself doth ween , That heavens such ...
... bliss seems vain : Thrise happy Man ! might he the same possess , He fains himself , and doth his fortune bless . 195 200 205 210 And though he do not win his wish to end , Yet thus far happy he himself doth ween , That heavens such ...
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... bliss , and heaven's glory . There thou them placest in a paradise Of all delight and joyous happy rest , Where they do feed on nectar heavenly wise , With Hercules and Hebe , and the rest Of Venus ' dearlings , through her bounty blest ...
... bliss , and heaven's glory . There thou them placest in a paradise Of all delight and joyous happy rest , Where they do feed on nectar heavenly wise , With Hercules and Hebe , and the rest Of Venus ' dearlings , through her bounty blest ...
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... bliss , And be partakers of those joys of his . There they in their trinal triplicities About him wait , and on his will depend , Either with nimble wings to cut the skies , When he them on his messages doth send , Or on his own drad ...
... bliss , And be partakers of those joys of his . There they in their trinal triplicities About him wait , and on his will depend , Either with nimble wings to cut the skies , When he them on his messages doth send , Or on his own drad ...
Termos e frases comuns
Alcyon Arthur Gorges bear beasts beauty behold blessed bliss bowre brave brest bright Colin cruel dainty dear death delight dight dost doth dreadful earth earthly eccho ring EDMUND SPENSER eyes face fair fair Lady fairest falconry fear fire flock flowres gentle glorious glory goodly grace grief grone happy hast hath heart heaven heavenly herse hight Hobbinol honour Lady light live Lord love's mind mortal mourn Muse never night noble nought nymphs pain Palinode Phoebus pity plain pleasance pleasure powre praid praise pride rest Rome Sapience scorn seek seem'd sheep shepherds shew sight Sike sing Sith song SONNET sore sorrow soul spide spoil spright sweet tears thee thereof thilk things thou thought twixt unto verse vertue Volume VII wail waste ween weep whilom whilst wight wings wont woods wretched
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Página 30 - Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day, Didst make thy triumph over death and sin; And, having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win...
Página 7 - For though he colours could devize at will, And eke his learned hand at pleasure guide, Least, trembling, it his workmanship should spill*, Yet many wondrous things there are beside: The sweet eye-glaunces, that like arrowes glide, The charming smiles, that rob sence from the hart, The lovely pleasance, and the lofty pride, Cannot expressed be by any art. A greater craftesmans hand thereto doth neede, That can expresse the life of things indeed.
Página 207 - I gained gifts and goodly grace Of that great lord, which therein wont to dwell, Whose want too well now feels my friendless case.
Página 215 - Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring?
Página 218 - ... light, When once the Crab behind his back he sees. But for this time it ill ordained was, To chose the longest day in all the yeare, And shortest night, when longest fitter weare: Yet never day so long, but late would passe.
Página 111 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Página 206 - At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame ! There when they came, whereas those bricky towers The which on Thames...
Página 109 - How vainely then doe ydle wits invent, That beautie is nought else but mixture made Of colours faire, and goodly temp'rament Of pure complexions, that shall quickly fade And passe away, like to a sommers...
Página 30 - I all weary had the chase forsook, The gentle deer returned the self-same way, Thinking to quench her thirst at the next brook: There she, beholding me with milder look, Sought not to fly, but fearless still did bide; Till I in hand her yet half trembling took, And with her own good-will her firmly tied. Strange thing, meseemed, to see a beast so wild, So goodly won, with her own will beguiled.
Página 218 - With Barnaby the bright, From whence declining daily by degrees, He somewhat loseth of his heat and light, When once the Crab behind his back he sees.