The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now First CollectedJ. R. Smith, 1856 - 311 páginas |
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... meanes to cure a weake estate , Honour illustrates what it commeth nie : To marry thus , men count it happy fate . Vertue they think doth in these emblemes shroud , But triall shewes the'are gulled with a cloud . These are but ...
... meanes to cure a weake estate , Honour illustrates what it commeth nie : To marry thus , men count it happy fate . Vertue they think doth in these emblemes shroud , But triall shewes the'are gulled with a cloud . These are but ...
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... meanes is care , not jealousie : Some lawfull things to be avoyded are , When they occasion of unlawfull be : Lust ere it hurts , is best descry'd afarre : Lust is a sinne of two ; he that is sure Of either part , may be of both secure ...
... meanes is care , not jealousie : Some lawfull things to be avoyded are , When they occasion of unlawfull be : Lust ere it hurts , is best descry'd afarre : Lust is a sinne of two ; he that is sure Of either part , may be of both secure ...
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... meanes and his meaning into two colors , he baits craft with humility , and his countenance is the picture of the present disposition . He wins not by battery , but undermin- ing , and his racke is smoothing . He allures , is not allur ...
... meanes and his meaning into two colors , he baits craft with humility , and his countenance is the picture of the present disposition . He wins not by battery , but undermin- ing , and his racke is smoothing . He allures , is not allur ...
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... meanes nothing : and his boy is bound to admire him howsoever . He comes still from great personages , but goes with mean . Hee takes occa- sion to shew jewels given him in regard of his ver- tue , that were bought in S. Martines : and ...
... meanes nothing : and his boy is bound to admire him howsoever . He comes still from great personages , but goes with mean . Hee takes occa- sion to shew jewels given him in regard of his ver- tue , that were bought in S. Martines : and ...
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... meanes , his 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 ...
... meanes , his 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 ...
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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
alwayes beauty Ben Jonson better bloud body British Museum businesse church cloth commonly conscience Countess Countess of Essex court courtier dare death devill doth Duke of Guise Earl edition enemies England eyes faire falne farre fashion feare foole France friends gentrie give goes greatnesse heart heaven hee hath himselfe honour husband justice keepe King James learned live London Lord lust marry master Mayerne meere mind nature neere never night Overbury's peace peece physicke Piers Ploughman poem prayes Prince printed prisoners reason religion says selfe shee shew Simon Forman sinn Sir Simonds D'Ewes Sir Thomas Overbury sleep SOHO SQUARE Somerset souldiers soule Spaine speake stomack sunne thee thing thinke thou tion truth Tyburn unto vertue vice warre weares wife woman words worth wrie
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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.
Página xxiv - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 314 - Nothing can be more interesting than this little book, containing a lively picture of the opinions and conversations of one of the most eminent scholars and most distinguished patriots England has produced, living at a period the most eventful of our history.
Página 298 - Tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used, but, as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as Tinkers do Ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned Tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.