The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 |
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... cause . Drayton's Barons Wars . A politician , Proteus - like , muft alter His face and habit ; and like water , feem Of the fame colour that the veffel is That doth contain it ; varying his form With the camelion at each object's ...
... cause . Drayton's Barons Wars . A politician , Proteus - like , muft alter His face and habit ; and like water , feem Of the fame colour that the veffel is That doth contain it ; varying his form With the camelion at each object's ...
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... cause them to wear a night - cap Three weeks after : Some are proud of their good Parts , although they were never put to better Ufes , than the enjoying of a common Strumpet's company : And fome are only Made proud , by the favour of a ...
... cause them to wear a night - cap Three weeks after : Some are proud of their good Parts , although they were never put to better Ufes , than the enjoying of a common Strumpet's company : And fome are only Made proud , by the favour of a ...
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... cause : Celestial vifions cancel written laws . 2. If man may act whate'er he's mov'd to do ; The fame man is both judge and party too : Bodies and fouls are fo in marriage ty'd , Their diftinct iffues hardly are defcry'd ; But well ...
... cause : Celestial vifions cancel written laws . 2. If man may act whate'er he's mov'd to do ; The fame man is both judge and party too : Bodies and fouls are fo in marriage ty'd , Their diftinct iffues hardly are defcry'd ; But well ...
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... . That ev'ry flight and falfe - derived cause , Yea , ev'ry idle , nice , and wanton reason , Shall to the king taste of this action : That , were our royal faiths martyrs in love , We We shall be winnow'd with fo rough a wind , 80 REB.
... . That ev'ry flight and falfe - derived cause , Yea , ev'ry idle , nice , and wanton reason , Shall to the king taste of this action : That , were our royal faiths martyrs in love , We We shall be winnow'd with fo rough a wind , 80 REB.
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... cause of policy , The gordian knot of it he will unloofe , Familiar as his garter . When he fpeaks , The air , a charter'd libertine , is ftill ; And the mute wonder lurketh in mens ears , To steal his sweet and honied fentences : So ...
... cause of policy , The gordian knot of it he will unloofe , Familiar as his garter . When he fpeaks , The air , a charter'd libertine , is ftill ; And the mute wonder lurketh in mens ears , To steal his sweet and honied fentences : So ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
againſt Aleyn's Atheist's Tragedy bafe Barons Wars Beaumont and Fletcher's becauſe beft beſt blood Catiline caufe cauſe Chapman's Crown's Cymbeline Daniel's Davenant's Gondibert defire doth Drayton's ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe fame fcorn fear fecret feek feem fenfe ferve fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt flave fome forrow foul fpirits ftate ftill ftrength ftrong fubjects fuch fure Gondibert grief hath heart heav'n Henry VII himſelf honour Ibid itſelf Johnson's king lefs live loft Lord Brooke's Lover's Melancholy luft man's Marfton's Mirror for Magiftrates moft moſt muft muſt Nabbs's ne'er never paffion pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe princes puniſhment reafon revenge Revenger's Tragedy rife Sejanus Shakespear's Shakespear's Hamlet ſhall ſhe Shirley's Sir John Davies ſtate Sterline's ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou unto uſe valour vertue virtue Volpone Whilft whofe whoſe wife women Women beware Women
Passagens conhecidas
Página 309 - And new philosophy calls all in doubt; The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and th' earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it.
Página 199 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 22 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Página 88 - I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness ; Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
Página 19 - Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
Página 43 - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence. What then? what rests? Try what repentance can: what can it not? Yet what can it, when one can not repent? O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged! Help, angels! make assay; Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All may be well.
Página 104 - Mongst quiet kindred that had nothing left By their dead parents : ' Stay,' quoth Reputation, ' Do not forsake me ; for it is my nature, If once I part from any man I meet, I am never found again.
Página 114 - Now might I do it, pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't...
Página 21 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Página 105 - A real, or at least, a seeming good. Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name, And, free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Thus he the church at once protects and spoils ; But princes' swords are sharper than their styles : And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends.