SonnetsAppleton, 1889 - 227 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Amor bloomy canzone Carm Catherine Thomson colle aspro Cromwell cuckoo Cyriack Dante Darwen Defensio Diodati doth edition of 1673 Emathian England English epithet eyes fair Fairfax feeling foreign form belong form of poem fourteen lines George Gascoigne graces Greek hast hearer heart heaven Henry honour Italian JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON EDITED jolly Kings language Latin licence Lord Love's MARK PATTISON Masson ment metrical Milton's sonnets nightingale noble o'er occhi pamphlet Parliament Petrarch Petrarchian poet poetical poetry prefixed Presbyterian quatrains recognised rimes royalist rules Rump Parliament sense sestet Shakspeare's sonnets siege of Colchester sing Skinner song Sonnet 12 SONNET 21 Sonnet 9 soon hath soul spray stanza Surrey tercets Tetrachordon thee Thomas Magister thou thought tion tongue Translated by Cowper Translated by Langhorne Translated by Strutt twenty-four sonnets Vane verse virtue virtuous Vita Westminster Assembly words write written young youth
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Página 173 - Hast reared God's trophies, and his work pursued ; While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath...
Página 121 - Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die : The earth can yield me but a common grave, "When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read ; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead ; You still shall live (such virtue hath my pen,) Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Página 67 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Página 209 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Página 119 - CAPTAIN or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...
Página 187 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 143 - I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs...
Página 85 - Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even 10 To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Página 63 - Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Página 161 - WHEN faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripened thy just soul to dwell with God, Meekly thou didst resign this earthly load Of death, called life ; which us from life doth sever...