The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now First CollectedJ. R. Smith, 1856 - 311 páginas |
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... selfe to pine . But these things happen still , but ne're more cleare , Nor with more lustre did these lamps appeare ; Mercury capers with a winged heele , As if he did no touch of sorrow feele , And yet he sees a true Mercurian kill'd ...
... selfe to pine . But these things happen still , but ne're more cleare , Nor with more lustre did these lamps appeare ; Mercury capers with a winged heele , As if he did no touch of sorrow feele , And yet he sees a true Mercurian kill'd ...
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... selfe the tree , Sweet counsels were the berries grew on thee . Wit was the branch that did adorne the stocke , Reason the leafe upon those branches spred , Under thy shadow did the Muses flocke , And ( by thee ) as a mantle covered ...
... selfe the tree , Sweet counsels were the berries grew on thee . Wit was the branch that did adorne the stocke , Reason the leafe upon those branches spred , Under thy shadow did the Muses flocke , And ( by thee ) as a mantle covered ...
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... selfe ) with policy So pure and chaste a love to nullifie . Yet howsoe'r , their project flies in smoke , The poyson's cordiall , which they meant should choke : Their deeds of darknes , like the bridall night , Have joyn'd spirituall ...
... selfe ) with policy So pure and chaste a love to nullifie . Yet howsoe'r , their project flies in smoke , The poyson's cordiall , which they meant should choke : Their deeds of darknes , like the bridall night , Have joyn'd spirituall ...
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... selfe - will debate . Loe thus , and in this monument of proofe A perfect wife , a worke nor time can fade , Nor loose respect betray to mortall fate . This none can equall ; best , but imitate . R. C. I ON SIR THOMAS OVERBURIES POEM ...
... selfe - will debate . Loe thus , and in this monument of proofe A perfect wife , a worke nor time can fade , Nor loose respect betray to mortall fate . This none can equall ; best , but imitate . R. C. I ON SIR THOMAS OVERBURIES POEM ...
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... selfe agen , But importun'd to life , is now alone Lov'd , woo'd , admir'd , by all wise single men . Which , to th ' adulterous rest , that dare begin Their us'd temptations , were a mortall sin . E TO THE WIFE . XPOS'D to all thou ...
... selfe agen , But importun'd to life , is now alone Lov'd , woo'd , admir'd , by all wise single men . Which , to th ' adulterous rest , that dare begin Their us'd temptations , were a mortall sin . E TO THE WIFE . XPOS'D to all thou ...
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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.