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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Pàgina 1
... Look what was theirs , is in king Henry's hands , His wealth before lay in the abbey - lands . 2. Indeed these things you have alledg'd , my lord , When , God doth know , the infant yet unborn , Will curfe the time the abbies were pull ...
... Look what was theirs , is in king Henry's hands , His wealth before lay in the abbey - lands . 2. Indeed these things you have alledg'd , my lord , When , God doth know , the infant yet unborn , Will curfe the time the abbies were pull ...
Pàgina 17
... Look how one wave another ftill purfueth , When some great tempeft holds their troops in chace : Or as one hour another clofe reneweth ; Or pofting day supplies another's place ; So do the billows of affliction beat me , And hand in ...
... Look how one wave another ftill purfueth , When some great tempeft holds their troops in chace : Or as one hour another clofe reneweth ; Or pofting day supplies another's place ; So do the billows of affliction beat me , And hand in ...
Pàgina 22
... Look fweet , fpeak fair ; become difloyalty : Apparel vice , like virtue's harbinger ; Bear a fair prefence , tho ' your heart be tainted : Teach fin the carriage of a holy faint ; Be fecret - falfe : What needs the be acquainted ? What ...
... Look fweet , fpeak fair ; become difloyalty : Apparel vice , like virtue's harbinger ; Bear a fair prefence , tho ' your heart be tainted : Teach fin the carriage of a holy faint ; Be fecret - falfe : What needs the be acquainted ? What ...
Pàgina 23
... look upon her , Dandle her upon my knee , and give her fugar - fops ? All the new gowns i'th ' parish will not please her , If fhe be high - bred , for there's the fport fhe aims at , Nor all the feathers in the fryars . 1. Then take a ...
... look upon her , Dandle her upon my knee , and give her fugar - fops ? All the new gowns i'th ' parish will not please her , If fhe be high - bred , for there's the fport fhe aims at , Nor all the feathers in the fryars . 1. Then take a ...
Pàgina 26
... look'd dull , thine bright , When prejudice and favour chang'd the light . Sir Robert Stapylton's Step Mother . Affection is become a parafite ; Strives to please whom it cannot benefit . Sir William Davenant's Cruel Brother . ALLIANCE ...
... look'd dull , thine bright , When prejudice and favour chang'd the light . Sir Robert Stapylton's Step Mother . Affection is become a parafite ; Strives to please whom it cannot benefit . Sir William Davenant's Cruel Brother . ALLIANCE ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 28 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Pàgina 260 - And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Pàgina 73 - O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear: Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Pàgina 167 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Pàgina 43 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Pàgina 134 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not...
Pàgina 167 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Pàgina 209 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Pàgina 253 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume...
Pàgina 4 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th