Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry of Several Eminent Authors to which are Added the Extra Songs of Merry Drollery, 1661, and an Antidote Against Melancholy, 1661Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth R. Roberts, 1876 - 426 páginas |
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... better - Reason blind To the dread evils waiting still on Power . We see Old England torn by civil wars , Oppress'd by gloomy zealots - men whose chain More galled because of Regicidal stain , Hiding from view all honourable scars : We ...
... better - Reason blind To the dread evils waiting still on Power . We see Old England torn by civil wars , Oppress'd by gloomy zealots - men whose chain More galled because of Regicidal stain , Hiding from view all honourable scars : We ...
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... better place ; but travellers must be content . " Meanwhile , in the beloved Warwickshire glades , herds of swine were routing noisily for acorns , dropped amid withered leaves under branches of the Royal Oaks . They were watched by ...
... better place ; but travellers must be content . " Meanwhile , in the beloved Warwickshire glades , herds of swine were routing noisily for acorns , dropped amid withered leaves under branches of the Royal Oaks . They were watched by ...
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... better left to give him , so they brought him death . What could be more welcome ? Very few of these who reach the summit of ambition , as of those other who most lamentably failed , and became bankrupt of every hope , can feel much ...
... better left to give him , so they brought him death . What could be more welcome ? Very few of these who reach the summit of ambition , as of those other who most lamentably failed , and became bankrupt of every hope , can feel much ...
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... better to bide their time , and await the natural progress of events , allowing all the enemies of Charles and Monarchy to quarrel and consume each other . Probably the bulk of country farmers and their labourers cared not one jot how ...
... better to bide their time , and await the natural progress of events , allowing all the enemies of Charles and Monarchy to quarrel and consume each other . Probably the bulk of country farmers and their labourers cared not one jot how ...
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... better treasure in their birthright of imagination . The dull , harsh , and uncongenial time intensified their visions : even as Hogarth's " Distressed Poet " -amid the squalour of his garret , with his gentle uncomplaining wife dunned ...
... better treasure in their birthright of imagination . The dull , harsh , and uncongenial time intensified their visions : even as Hogarth's " Distressed Poet " -amid the squalour of his garret , with his gentle uncomplaining wife dunned ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 274 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Página 375 - Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane!
Página 156 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Página 313 - I'LL sing you a good old song, Made by a good old pate, Of a fine old English gentleman, Who had an old estate; And who kept up his old mansion At a bountiful old rate; With a good old porter to relieve The old poor at his gate. Like a fine old English gentleman, All of the olden time. His hall, so old, was hung around With pikes, and guns, and bows, And swords, and good old bucklers, That had stood against old foes; 'Twas there "his worship...
Página 421 - Questi non hanno speranza di morte, E la lor cieca vita è tanto bassa, . Che invidiosi son d
Página 348 - True; a new Mistresse now I chase, The first Foe in the Field; And with a stronger Faith imbrace A Sword, a Horse, a Shield. Yet this Inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore; I could not love thee (Deare) so much, Lov'd I not Honour more.
Página 348 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Página 169 - After that, the King led a lady a single Coranto; and then the rest of the lords, one after another, other ladies; very noble it was, and great pleasure to see. Then to country dances ; the King leading the first, which he called for; which was, says he, "Cuckolds all awry,
Página xix - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I ; when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Página xxxi - Stay for me there; I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale: And think not much of my delay; I am already on the way, And follow thee with all the speed Desire can make, or sorrows breed.