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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... fhew the progreffive alterations and improvement of our style and language . And that the work might be the more authentick , nothing is tran- fcribed at fecond hand , but all the paffages are copied from the authors themselves ; an ...
... fhew the progreffive alterations and improvement of our style and language . And that the work might be the more authentick , nothing is tran- fcribed at fecond hand , but all the paffages are copied from the authors themselves ; an ...
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... fhew , To the vile hand that did them first divide : Whofe cumb'rous falls and rifings feem'd to fay , So ill an action could not brook the day . Drayton's Barons Wars . GLORÍ Glory , is like a circle in the water ; Which never ceaseth ...
... fhew , To the vile hand that did them first divide : Whofe cumb'rous falls and rifings feem'd to fay , So ill an action could not brook the day . Drayton's Barons Wars . GLORÍ Glory , is like a circle in the water ; Which never ceaseth ...
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... fhew , They are but barren heaps borne up aloft ; Where plains are pleasant ftill , tho ' they lie low , And are moft fertile too , tho ' trod on oft : Greatness is like a cloud in th'airy bounds , Which some base vapours have congeal'd ...
... fhew , They are but barren heaps borne up aloft ; Where plains are pleasant ftill , tho ' they lie low , And are moft fertile too , tho ' trod on oft : Greatness is like a cloud in th'airy bounds , Which some base vapours have congeal'd ...
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... fhew The deeds of pow'r , and lively represent The actions of a glorious government . And ' tis no leffer honour to a crown , T'have writers , than have actors of renown . Daniel on Prince Henry , Would God our times had had fome facred ...
... fhew The deeds of pow'r , and lively represent The actions of a glorious government . And ' tis no leffer honour to a crown , T'have writers , than have actors of renown . Daniel on Prince Henry , Would God our times had had fome facred ...
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... fhew , And but direct our honour , not bestow . For when from herbs the pure part must be won From grofs by ftilling ; this is better done By defpis'd dung , than by the fire or fun : Care not then , madam , how low your praises lie ...
... fhew , And but direct our honour , not bestow . For when from herbs the pure part must be won From grofs by ftilling ; this is better done By defpis'd dung , than by the fire or fun : Care not then , madam , how low your praises lie ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.