The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene, Volume 2

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Clarendon Press, 1905
 

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Página 366 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Página 356 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied ; And vice sometimes by action dignified.
Página 7 - ... if they heard it not before it had done speaking, all their labour should be lost. They being satisfied, licensed the spirit for to depart. " Then went these two learned fryers home...
Página 6 - England, bethought himselfe how he might keepe it hereafter from the like conquests, and so make himselfe famous hereafter to all posterities. This (after great study) hee found could be no way so well done as one ; which was to make a head of brasse, and if he could make this head to speake (and heare it when it speakes) then might hee be able to wall all England about with brasse.
Página 362 - Hic Venus, indigno nati concussa dolore, Dictamnum genetrix Cretaea carpit ab Ida, Puberibus caulem foliis, et flore comantem Purpureo : non ilia feris incognita capris Gramina, cum tergo volucres haesere sagittae.
Página 328 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Página 358 - Quant' egli ha più di buon vigor terrestro. Alcun tempo '1 sostenni col mio volto; Mostrando gli occhi giovinetti a lui, Meco '1 menava in dritta parte volto. Si tosto, come. in su la soglia fui Di mia seconda etade, e mutai vita, Questi si tolse a me, e diessi altrui. Quando di carne a spirto...
Página 405 - I tell thee, Lacy, that her sparkling eyes Do lighten forth sweet love's alluring fire; And in her tresses she doth fold the looks Of such as gaze upon her golden hair: Her bashful...
Página 6 - ... out any hope of what they sought, that at the last they concluded to raise a spirit, and to know of him that which they could not attaine to by their owne studies.
Página 53 - Are welcome as they may be to the English court. Thus for the men : but see, Venus appears, Or one that overmatcheth Venus in her shape !• Sweet Elinor, beauty's high-swelling pride, Rich nature's glory, and her wealth at once, Fair of all fairs, welcome to Albion ; Welcome to me, and welcome to thine own, If that thou deign'st the welcome from myself.

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