The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now First CollectedJ. R. Smith, 1856 - 311 páginas |
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... hold it as a great favour , and ever rest , Your Lordship's to be commanded , T. OVERBURY . London , 11th of September . Overbury is accused of pride and insolence , and the various records of the time , handed down to us , certainly ...
... hold it as a great favour , and ever rest , Your Lordship's to be commanded , T. OVERBURY . London , 11th of September . Overbury is accused of pride and insolence , and the various records of the time , handed down to us , certainly ...
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... hold but common sense and care , And steere by this card ; he that goes awry , Ile boldly say at his nativity , That man was seal'd a foole : yet all this good Given as it is , not cloath'd in flesh and blood , Some may averre , and ...
... hold but common sense and care , And steere by this card ; he that goes awry , Ile boldly say at his nativity , That man was seal'd a foole : yet all this good Given as it is , not cloath'd in flesh and blood , Some may averre , and ...
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... hold , and no new rest shall find ; Vice hath no meane , but not to be at all . A wife is that enough ; lust cannot find ; For lust is still with want , or too much , pin'd . Bate lust the sin , my share is ev'n with A WIFE . 35.
... hold , and no new rest shall find ; Vice hath no meane , but not to be at all . A wife is that enough ; lust cannot find ; For lust is still with want , or too much , pin'd . Bate lust the sin , my share is ev'n with A WIFE . 35.
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... holds a soule within . And all the carnall beauty of my wife , Is but skin - deep , but to two senses known ; Short even of pictures , shorter liv'd then life , And yet the love survives , that's built thereon : For our imagination is ...
... holds a soule within . And all the carnall beauty of my wife , Is but skin - deep , but to two senses known ; Short even of pictures , shorter liv'd then life , And yet the love survives , that's built thereon : For our imagination is ...
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... hold , That we to them our solitude may give , And make time - present travell that of old . Our life , fame peeceth longer at the end , And bookes it farther backward doe extend . As good , and knowing , let her be discreete , That ...
... hold , That we to them our solitude may give , And make time - present travell that of old . Our life , fame peeceth longer at the end , And bookes it farther backward doe extend . As good , and knowing , let her be discreete , That ...
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The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt: Now ... Sir Thomas Overbury Visualização integral - 1890 |
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.