The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now First CollectedJ. R. Smith, 1856 - 311 páginas |
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... soule in heavens all - glorious sphere ; Who being good , nought lesse to thee befell , Though it appear'd disguis'd in shape of hell ; Vanish thy bloud and nerves ; true life alone In vertue lives , and true religion , In both which ...
... soule in heavens all - glorious sphere ; Who being good , nought lesse to thee befell , Though it appear'd disguis'd in shape of hell ; Vanish thy bloud and nerves ; true life alone In vertue lives , and true religion , In both which ...
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... soule dares not behold thy light , But banning it , a course begins to runne With those that curse the rising of the sunne . The poyson that works upwards now , shall strive To be thy faire fames true preservative . And witchcraft ...
... soule dares not behold thy light , But banning it , a course begins to runne With those that curse the rising of the sunne . The poyson that works upwards now , shall strive To be thy faire fames true preservative . And witchcraft ...
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... soule fled , And only that time men shall terme thee dead . Hereafter ( rais'd to life ) thou still shalt have An antidote against the silent grave . W. B. Int . temp . UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURIE . F for to live be ...
... soule fled , And only that time men shall terme thee dead . Hereafter ( rais'd to life ) thou still shalt have An antidote against the silent grave . W. B. Int . temp . UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURIE . F for to live be ...
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... soule so far beyond the common make As scorn'd corporeall joyning . For her sake ( Despairing else contract ) thou too turn'st soule ; And to enjoy her faires without controule , Cast'st off this bodies clog : so must all do , Cast ...
... soule so far beyond the common make As scorn'd corporeall joyning . For her sake ( Despairing else contract ) thou too turn'st soule ; And to enjoy her faires without controule , Cast'st off this bodies clog : so must all do , Cast ...
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... soule within . And all the carnall beauty of my wife , Is but skin - deep , but to two senses known ; Short even of pictures , shorter liv'd then life , And yet the love survives , that's built thereon : For our imagination is too high ...
... soule within . And all the carnall beauty of my wife , Is but skin - deep , but to two senses known ; Short even of pictures , shorter liv'd then life , And yet the love survives , that's built thereon : For our imagination is too high ...
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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
Passagens conhecidas
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.