The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now First CollectedJ. R. Smith, 1856 - 311 páginas |
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... us dwell . The stars me thinks , like men inclinde to sleep , Should through their chrystall casements scarcely peep , Or at least view us but with halfe an eye , For feare their chaster influence might descry Some murdering hand.
... us dwell . The stars me thinks , like men inclinde to sleep , Should through their chrystall casements scarcely peep , Or at least view us but with halfe an eye , For feare their chaster influence might descry Some murdering hand.
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Sir Thomas Overbury Edward Francis Rimbault. For feare their chaster influence might descry Some murdering hand , oaded in guiltlesse blood , Blending vile juices to destroy the good . The sunne should wed his beames to endlesse night ...
Sir Thomas Overbury Edward Francis Rimbault. For feare their chaster influence might descry Some murdering hand , oaded in guiltlesse blood , Blending vile juices to destroy the good . The sunne should wed his beames to endlesse night ...
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... ' adulterous rest , that dare begin Their us'd temptations , were a mortall sin . E TO THE WIFE . XPOS'D to all thou wilt lesse worthy seeme , I feare : wives common , all men disesteeme , Yet some things have a diffring fate : some fret ...
... ' adulterous rest , that dare begin Their us'd temptations , were a mortall sin . E TO THE WIFE . XPOS'D to all thou wilt lesse worthy seeme , I feare : wives common , all men disesteeme , Yet some things have a diffring fate : some fret ...
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... feare loose lookes to scatter : And loose men will feare to flatter . Children I would have her beare , More for love of name than bed : So each child I have is heyre To another mayden - head ; For she that in the act's afraid , Every ...
... feare loose lookes to scatter : And loose men will feare to flatter . Children I would have her beare , More for love of name than bed : So each child I have is heyre To another mayden - head ; For she that in the act's afraid , Every ...
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... feare , and his religion is not his but the princes . He reverenceth a courtiers servants ser- vant . Is first his own slave , and then whosoever looketh big ; when he gives hee curseth , and when hee sels he worships . He reads the ...
... feare , and his religion is not his but the princes . He reverenceth a courtiers servants ser- vant . Is first his own slave , and then whosoever looketh big ; when he gives hee curseth , and when hee sels he worships . He reads the ...
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The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now ... Sir Thomas Overbury Visualização integral - 1856 |
The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now ... Sir Thomas Overbury Visualização integral - 1856 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
beauty Ben Jonson better bloud body British Museum businesse character church cloth command commonly conscience Countess Countess of Essex Countess of Somerset court D'Ewes dare death doth Earl of Somerset edition enemy England English Essex eyes faire farre fashion feare foole France friends give goes heaven hee hath Henry himselfe honour husband J. O. Halliwell King James learned lives London Lord lust master Mayerne meere mind murder neere never night original price Overbury's peece physicke Piers Ploughman poem poet poison Post 8vo prayes Prince printed Queen reason religion says selfe shee shew Simon Forman sinne Sir Ralph Winwood Sir Simonds D'Ewes Sir Thomas Overbury sleep small octavo SOHO SQUARE souldiers soule speakes sunne thee things thinke thou tion truth unto vertue warre weares wife woman words worth wrie
Passagens conhecidas
Página 309 - These lords beginning their rule on Alhollon eve, continued the same till the morrow after the Feast of the Purification, commonly called Candlemas day. In all which space there were fine and subtle disguisings, masks, and mummeries, with playing at cards for counters, nails, and points, in every house, more for pastime than for gain.
Página 40 - Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By Nature wise, not learned by much art; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart; Besides, her inborne virtue fortifie; They are most firmly good, who best know why.
Página 296 - Trust me, master, it is a choice song, and sweetly sung by honest Maudlin. I now see it was not without cause, that our good Queen Elizabeth did .so often wish herself a Milk-maid all the month of May, because they are not troubled with fears and cares, but sing sweetly all the day, and sleep securely all the night : and without doubt, honest, innocent, pretty Maudlin does so.