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Oxford University Press, 1868
 

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Seite 271 - the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardels bear
Seite 298 - smell ; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John. A strange fish ! Were I in England now (as once I was), and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver; there would this monster make a man.
Seite 184 - There in close covert by som Brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from Day's garish eie, While the Bee with Honied thie, That at her dowry work doth sing, And the Waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feather'd Sleep
Seite 184 - work doth sing, And the Waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feather'd Sleep ; And let som strange mysterious dream, Wave at his Wings in Airy stream, Of lively portrature display'd, Softly on my eye-lids laid.
Seite 174 - I am joined with no foot-land rakers, no long-staff sixpenny strikers, none of these mad mustachio purplc-hued malt-worms; but with nobility and tranquillity, burgomasters and great oneyers, such as can hold in, such as will strike sooner than speak, and speak sooner than drink, and drink sooner than pray.
Seite 301 - no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome : then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witeh hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time.
Seite 346 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art
Seite 11 - Or like the wind that chafes the flood ¡ Or bubbles which on water stood ; Ev'n such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in. and paid to night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies; • The spring entombed in autumn lies;
Seite 157 - I fear thy kisses gentle maiden, Thou needst not fear mine, My spirit is too deeply laden Ever to burthen thine. " I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion, Thou needst not fear mine, Innocent is the heart's devotion With which I worship thine.
Seite 173 - Hudibras : in Three Parts, written in the Time of the late Wars, Corrected and Amended : with Additions. To which is added, Annotations to the Third Part, with an exact Index to the whole; never before printed. Adorned with Cuts.

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