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 18
... Ev'n fo my ftill and rightful reigning was . The calm a tempeft bodes , the fhine a rain , Long peace a war , and pleasure pinching pain . Mirror for Magiftrates . For government , though high , and low , and lower , Put into parts ...
... Ev'n fo my ftill and rightful reigning was . The calm a tempeft bodes , the fhine a rain , Long peace a war , and pleasure pinching pain . Mirror for Magiftrates . For government , though high , and low , and lower , Put into parts ...
Pàgina 25
... Ev'n as the lab'rers fpend , or spare their pain ; The greateft fp'rits , difdaining vulgar bounds , Of what they feek , the higheft height must gain : They , that bright glory may be fo enjoy'd , As only born to be in action still ...
... Ev'n as the lab'rers fpend , or spare their pain ; The greateft fp'rits , difdaining vulgar bounds , Of what they feek , the higheft height must gain : They , that bright glory may be fo enjoy'd , As only born to be in action still ...
Pàgina 33
... Ev'n to be happy is a dang'rous thing ! E. of Sterline's Darius It is the best felicity , to be Not foil'd , and vanquish'd by felicity . Aleyn's Poitiers . He that makes gold his wife , but not his whore ; He that at noon - day walks ...
... Ev'n to be happy is a dang'rous thing ! E. of Sterline's Darius It is the best felicity , to be Not foil'd , and vanquish'd by felicity . Aleyn's Poitiers . He that makes gold his wife , but not his whore ; He that at noon - day walks ...
Pàgina 36
... ev'n the ears of fuch as have no skill , Perceive a difcord , and conceive offence ; And knowing not what's good , yet find the ill . And though this fenfe first gentle mufick found , Her proper object is the fpeech of men ; But that ...
... ev'n the ears of fuch as have no skill , Perceive a difcord , and conceive offence ; And knowing not what's good , yet find the ill . And though this fenfe first gentle mufick found , Her proper object is the fpeech of men ; But that ...
Pàgina 66
... ev'n of beaft fome pity's due ; And where refiftance fails , ceafe to pursue . Sir W. Davenant's Playboufe to be lett . HUSB A N D. The lady Olivia has no folly ; She will keep no fool , fir , till fhe be marry'd ; And fools are as like ...
... ev'n of beaft fome pity's due ; And where refiftance fails , ceafe to pursue . Sir W. Davenant's Playboufe to be lett . HUSB A N D. The lady Olivia has no folly ; She will keep no fool , fir , till fhe be marry'd ; And fools are as like ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
Atheist's Tragedy bafe Barons Wars Beaumont and Fletcher's becauſe beft beſt blood cauſe Chapman's Crown's Daniel's Davenant's Gondibert death defire doth Ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe fame fear feem fenfe fhall fhew fhould fince fire firft firſt flaves fleep fome foon foul ftand ftate ftill fubjects fuch fure fweet give greateſt greatneſs hath heart heav'n himſelf honour Ibid itſelf Johnson's juft juftice kifs kings laft lefs live loft Lord Brooke's Love's Lover's Melancholy luft marriage mifery mind Mirror for Magiftrates moft moſt muft muſt nature ne'er never night o'er ourſelves paffion pleaſe pleaſure poor pow'r praiſe princes Queen of Corinth reafon reft Revenger's Tragedy rife Sejanus Shakespear's Shakespear's Hamlet ſhall ſhe Shirley's Siege of Rhodes ſtand ſtate ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou unto uſe virtue Whilft whofe Whoſe wife
Passatges populars
Pàgina 170 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Pàgina 19 - To the tent-royal of their ( emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.
Pàgina 164 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Pàgina 109 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Pàgina 276 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Pàgina 76 - Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt ; For she had eyes, and chose me. No, lago ; I'll see before I doubt ; when I doubt, prove ; And on the proof, there is no more but this, — Away at once with love or jealousy ! lago.
Pàgina 236 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Pàgina 73 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Pàgina 149 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Pàgina 276 - For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.