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 4
... thou be to me , who must Like th ' other foot , obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle just , And makes me end where I begun . Dr. John Donne , It is as if a night should fhade noon - day , Or that the fun was here , but forc'd ...
... thou be to me , who must Like th ' other foot , obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle just , And makes me end where I begun . Dr. John Donne , It is as if a night should fhade noon - day , Or that the fun was here , but forc'd ...
Pàgina 12
... thou doft ill , the joy fades , not the pains : If well , the pain doth fade , the joy remains . George Herbert . Be well advis'd , and wary council make , Ere thou dost any action undertake . Hav'ng undertaken , thy endeavours bend To ...
... thou doft ill , the joy fades , not the pains : If well , the pain doth fade , the joy remains . George Herbert . Be well advis'd , and wary council make , Ere thou dost any action undertake . Hav'ng undertaken , thy endeavours bend To ...
Pàgina 14
... thou haft topp'd the hill ; To the fame end men fev'ral paths may tread , As many doors into one temple lead ; And the fame hand into a fift may close , Which inftantly a palm expanded fhews . Actions rare and fudden , do commonly ...
... thou haft topp'd the hill ; To the fame end men fev'ral paths may tread , As many doors into one temple lead ; And the fame hand into a fift may close , Which inftantly a palm expanded fhews . Actions rare and fudden , do commonly ...
Pàgina 16
... thou art , hadft thou not been undone ; And only thy affliction hath begot More fame than thy beft fortunes could have done : For ever by adverfity are wrought , The greatest works of admiration ; And all the fair examples of renown ...
... thou art , hadft thou not been undone ; And only thy affliction hath begot More fame than thy beft fortunes could have done : For ever by adverfity are wrought , The greatest works of admiration ; And all the fair examples of renown ...
Pàgina 20
... thou lack'st , and that breath wilt thou lofe . Let him be fo , For council ftill is folly's deadly foe . Shakespear's King Richard II . Shakespear's London Prodigal . Shakespear's Othello . You are one of those that will not serve God ...
... thou lack'st , and that breath wilt thou lofe . Let him be fo , For council ftill is folly's deadly foe . Shakespear's King Richard II . Shakespear's London Prodigal . Shakespear's Othello . You are one of those that will not serve God ...
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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