The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now First CollectedJ. R. Smith, 1856 - 311 páginas |
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... peace nor strife , Live by a good , by a bad one Lost my life . A wife like her I writ , man Scarfe can wea Of a false friend like mine , man Scarfe hath read . MISCELLANEOUS WORKS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY.
... peace nor strife , Live by a good , by a bad one Lost my life . A wife like her I writ , man Scarfe can wea Of a false friend like mine , man Scarfe hath read . MISCELLANEOUS WORKS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY.
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... peace : thus happy hast thou prov'd , Thou might'st have di'de more knowne , not more belov'd . Io . Fo . UPON SIR THO . OVERBURIE THE AUTHOR OF THIS INGENIOUS POEM . H ESPERIDES ( within whose gardens grow Apples of gold ) may well thy ...
... peace : thus happy hast thou prov'd , Thou might'st have di'de more knowne , not more belov'd . Io . Fo . UPON SIR THO . OVERBURIE THE AUTHOR OF THIS INGENIOUS POEM . H ESPERIDES ( within whose gardens grow Apples of gold ) may well thy ...
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... peace commeth not from fortune , but himselfe . He is cunning in men , not to surprize , but keep his own , and beates off their ill affected humours , no otherwise than if they were flyes . He chuseth not friends by the subsidy - book ...
... peace commeth not from fortune , but himselfe . He is cunning in men , not to surprize , but keep his own , and beates off their ill affected humours , no otherwise than if they were flyes . He chuseth not friends by the subsidy - book ...
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... peace is pro- duced . He speakes statutes and hus- bandry well enough , to make his neighbors thinke him a wise man ; he is well skilled in arithmetick or rates and hath eloquence enough to save his two- pence . His conversation amongst ...
... peace is pro- duced . He speakes statutes and hus- bandry well enough , to make his neighbors thinke him a wise man ; he is well skilled in arithmetick or rates and hath eloquence enough to save his two- pence . His conversation amongst ...
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... peace , though in prayer , makes him start , and God hee best considers by his power : hunger and cold ranke in the same file with him , and hold him to a man : his honour else , and the desire of doing things beyond him , would blow ...
... peace , though in prayer , makes him start , and God hee best considers by his power : hunger and cold ranke in the same file with him , and hold him to a man : his honour else , and the desire of doing things beyond him , would blow ...
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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.