The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now First CollectedJ. R. Smith, 1856 - 311 páginas |
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... poem itself is exceedingly interesting . Whoever the writer was , he wrote well . He was a keen observer of human nature ; alive to the abuses which prevailed in Church and State at the period when he lived , and equally competent and ...
... poem itself is exceedingly interesting . Whoever the writer was , he wrote well . He was a keen observer of human nature ; alive to the abuses which prevailed in Church and State at the period when he lived , and equally competent and ...
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... ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR , BY EDWARD F. RIMBAULT , LL.D. ETC. ETC. LONDON : 1856 . MD LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK 1 CONTENTS . Page ix XXV. JOHN RUSSELL SMITH , SOHO SQUARE . NTRODUCTION Life of Sir Thomas Overbury The Poem of the. THE.
... ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR , BY EDWARD F. RIMBAULT , LL.D. ETC. ETC. LONDON : 1856 . MD LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK 1 CONTENTS . Page ix XXV. JOHN RUSSELL SMITH , SOHO SQUARE . NTRODUCTION Life of Sir Thomas Overbury The Poem of the. THE.
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... 57 58 60 61 63 64 65 67 A Braggadochio Welshman 68 A Pedant 69 A Serving - Man 69 An Host . 71 CHARACTERS , ETC. continued . Page An Ostler 71 A. NTRODUCTION Life of Sir Thomas Overbury The Poem of the Wife THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS.
... 57 58 60 61 63 64 65 67 A Braggadochio Welshman 68 A Pedant 69 A Serving - Man 69 An Host . 71 CHARACTERS , ETC. continued . Page An Ostler 71 A. NTRODUCTION Life of Sir Thomas Overbury The Poem of the Wife THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS.
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... poem of " The Wife ; " " Cha- racters , or Wittie Descriptions of the Properties of Sundry Persons ; " a paraphrase of the first and second parts of Ovid's " Remedy of Love ; " " Ob- servations in his Travailes upon the State of the ...
... poem of " The Wife ; " " Cha- racters , or Wittie Descriptions of the Properties of Sundry Persons ; " a paraphrase of the first and second parts of Ovid's " Remedy of Love ; " " Ob- servations in his Travailes upon the State of the ...
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... Poets , " speaking of this poem , remarks , " The sentiments , maxims , and observations , with which it abounds , are such as a considerable experience , and a correct judgment on mankind alone could furnish . The topics of jealousy ...
... Poets , " speaking of this poem , remarks , " The sentiments , maxims , and observations , with which it abounds , are such as a considerable experience , and a correct judgment on mankind alone could furnish . The topics of jealousy ...
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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 |
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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
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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.