Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1788 |
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... seen , the pensive boy , half in despight , Arose , and homeward drove his sullen sheep , Whose hanging heads did seem his careful case to weep . COLIN'S EMBLEM . Anchora speme . EGLOGA SECUNDA . The Argument . CUDDY , a young 8 THE ...
... seen , the pensive boy , half in despight , Arose , and homeward drove his sullen sheep , Whose hanging heads did seem his careful case to weep . COLIN'S EMBLEM . Anchora speme . EGLOGA SECUNDA . The Argument . CUDDY , a young 8 THE ...
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... seen him neere . Now ' gan he repent his pride too late , For naked left and disconsolate , The biting frost nipt his stalk dead , The watry wet weighed down his head , And heaped snow burdned him so sore , That now upright he can stand ...
... seen him neere . Now ' gan he repent his pride too late , For naked left and disconsolate , The biting frost nipt his stalk dead , The watry wet weighed down his head , And heaped snow burdned him so sore , That now upright he can stand ...
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... seen . 60 THO . It was upon a holy - day , When shepherds grooms han leave to play , I cast to go a shooting ; Long wandring up and down the land , 65 With bow and bolts in either hand , For birds in bushes tooting , At length within ...
... seen . 60 THO . It was upon a holy - day , When shepherds grooms han leave to play , I cast to go a shooting ; Long wandring up and down the land , 65 With bow and bolts in either hand , For birds in bushes tooting , At length within ...
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... seen her angelike face , " Like Phoebe fair ? " Her heavenly haviour , her princely grace , " Can you well compare ? " The red rose medled with the white yfere , " In either cheek depeinten lively chear ; " Her modest eye , " Her ...
... seen her angelike face , " Like Phoebe fair ? " Her heavenly haviour , her princely grace , " Can you well compare ? " The red rose medled with the white yfere , " In either cheek depeinten lively chear ; " Her modest eye , " Her ...
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... seen their sheep be not their own , That letten them run at random alone : But they been hired for little pay , Of other that caren as little as they 40 45 50 What fallen the flock , so they han the fleece , And get all the gain ...
... seen their sheep be not their own , That letten them run at random alone : But they been hired for little pay , Of other that caren as little as they 40 45 50 What fallen the flock , so they han the fleece , And get all the gain ...
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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.