The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now First CollectedJ. R. Smith, 1856 - 311 páginas |
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... thou liv'st , thou mak'st life understood , Where , what makes other great , doth keep thee good ! I think , the fate of court thy coming crav❜d , That the wit there and manners might be sav'd : For since , what ignorance , what pride ...
... thou liv'st , thou mak'st life understood , Where , what makes other great , doth keep thee good ! I think , the fate of court thy coming crav❜d , That the wit there and manners might be sav'd : For since , what ignorance , what pride ...
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... thou shalt find thou servest a thankful master . " Sir George accordingly returned to the Tower , and told Somerset that he found the King full of grace and mercy towards him , but that he must make his appearance to satisfy the ...
... thou shalt find thou servest a thankful master . " Sir George accordingly returned to the Tower , and told Somerset that he found the King full of grace and mercy towards him , but that he must make his appearance to satisfy the ...
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... thou where thou art ; Ile seeke no glory By the relation of so sad a story . If any more were privy to the deed , And for the crime must be adjudg'd to bleed , To heaven I pray , with heav'd up hands and eyes , That as their bodies fall ...
... thou where thou art ; Ile seeke no glory By the relation of so sad a story . If any more were privy to the deed , And for the crime must be adjudg'd to bleed , To heaven I pray , with heav'd up hands and eyes , That as their bodies fall ...
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... thou art deathlesse ; O behold , ( If thou canst looke so low as earths base mold ) How dreadfull justice ( late with lingring foot ) Now comes like whirlewind ! how it shakes the root Of lofty cedars ; makes the stately brow Bend to ...
... thou art deathlesse ; O behold , ( If thou canst looke so low as earths base mold ) How dreadfull justice ( late with lingring foot ) Now comes like whirlewind ! how it shakes the root Of lofty cedars ; makes the stately brow Bend to ...
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... thou art truth and just , The secrets of this unjust secure act , And what our feares make us suspect , compact With greater deeds of mischiefe : for alone We thinke not this , and doe suspect yet one , To which compar'd , this , but a ...
... thou art truth and just , The secrets of this unjust secure act , And what our feares make us suspect , compact With greater deeds of mischiefe : for alone We thinke not this , and doe suspect yet one , To which compar'd , this , but a ...
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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.