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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Página 141
... Say what are bloffoms in their prime , That ripen not in harvest time ? Or what are buds that ne'er disclose The long'd - for fweetness of the rofe ? So kiffes to a lover's guest Are invitations , not the feaft . Randolph . Thus while ...
... Say what are bloffoms in their prime , That ripen not in harvest time ? Or what are buds that ne'er disclose The long'd - for fweetness of the rofe ? So kiffes to a lover's guest Are invitations , not the feaft . Randolph . Thus while ...
Página 159
... say , In the next age , this goodly hofpital , This houfe of alms , this fchool , though feeming fair , Was the foul iffue of a curfed murder , And took foundation in a kinfman's blood . The privilege that rich men have in evil , Is ...
... say , In the next age , this goodly hofpital , This houfe of alms , this fchool , though feeming fair , Was the foul iffue of a curfed murder , And took foundation in a kinfman's blood . The privilege that rich men have in evil , Is ...
Página 169
... say no . The gods I hope will not be mov'd , Such fharp revenge to take , On thofe which err , but in fuch faults , As they themselves did make . Were it difhonour to be kind , To thofe we best esteem ; Great Jove himself could not be ...
... say no . The gods I hope will not be mov'd , Such fharp revenge to take , On thofe which err , but in fuch faults , As they themselves did make . Were it difhonour to be kind , To thofe we best esteem ; Great Jove himself could not be ...
Página 170
... ? - We men may say more , fwear more ; but , indeed , Our fhews are more than will : for ftill we prove Much in our vows , but little in our love . Shakespear's Twelfth Night . I I know , I love in vain ; ftrive against 170 LOV.
... ? - We men may say more , fwear more ; but , indeed , Our fhews are more than will : for ftill we prove Much in our vows , but little in our love . Shakespear's Twelfth Night . I I know , I love in vain ; ftrive against 170 LOV.
Página 201
... Say the prince , As I may well believe it , feems vicious ; Who juftly knows , tis not to try our honours ? Or fay he be an ill prince ; are we therefore Fit fires to purge him ? no , my dearest friend ; The elephant is never won with ...
... Say the prince , As I may well believe it , feems vicious ; Who juftly knows , tis not to try our honours ? Or fay he be an ill prince ; are we therefore Fit fires to purge him ? no , my dearest friend ; The elephant is never won with ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Atheist's Tragedy bafe Barons Wars Beaumont and Fletcher's becauſe beft beſt blood cauſe Chapman's Crown's Daniel's Davenant's Gondibert death defire doth Ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe fame fear feem fenfe fhall fhew fhould fince fire firft firſt flaves fleep fome foon foul ftand ftate ftill fubjects fuch fure fweet give greateſt greatneſs hath heart heav'n himſelf honour Ibid itſelf Johnson's juft juftice kifs kings laft lefs live loft Lord Brooke's Love's Lover's Melancholy luft marriage mifery mind Mirror for Magiftrates moft moſt muft muſt nature ne'er never night o'er ourſelves paffion pleaſe pleaſure poor pow'r praiſe princes Queen of Corinth reafon reft Revenger's Tragedy rife Sejanus Shakespear's Shakespear's Hamlet ſhall ſhe Shirley's Siege of Rhodes ſtand ſtate ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou unto uſe virtue Whilft whofe Whoſe wife
Passagens conhecidas
Página 170 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Página 19 - To the tent-royal of their ( emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.
Página 164 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 109 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 276 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Página 76 - Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt ; For she had eyes, and chose me. No, lago ; I'll see before I doubt ; when I doubt, prove ; And on the proof, there is no more but this, — Away at once with love or jealousy ! lago.
Página 236 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Página 73 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 149 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Página 276 - For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.