Seventeenth-century Studies: A Contribution to the History of English Poetry

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K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 305 עמודים
 

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עמוד 152 - Steps to the Temple," " Sacred Poems, with other Delights of the Muses," and "Poemata,"
עמוד 154 - By all the heav'ns thou hast in him, Fair sister of the seraphim! By all of him we have in thee, Leave nothing of myself in me: Let me so read thy life that I Unto all life of mine may die.
עמוד 186 - The very Honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy, And they (methinks) deserve my pity, Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings 10 Of this great hive, the city. Ah, yet, ere I descend to th...
עמוד 186 - I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree; The very honey of all earthly joy Does, of all meats, the soonest cloy; And they, methinks, deserve my pity Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings Of this great hive, the city! Ah, yet, ere I descend to the...
עמוד 32 - The best that can be said of them is, that they are befooled by their own fancies, and the victims of distempered brains and ill habits of body.
עמוד 53 - Come, come, my lord, untie your folded thoughts, And let them dangle loose, as a bride's hair.
עמוד 51 - My soul, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven I know not whither.
עמוד 126 - WHEN HE WOULD HAVE HIS VERSES READ. In sober mornings, do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse ; But when that men have both well drunk, and fed, Let my enchantments then be sung or read. When laurel spirts i...
עמוד 161 - Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from mortal eye In shady leaves of destiny...
עמוד 178 - Tis not a pyramid of marble stone, Though high as our ambition ; Tis not a tomb cut out in brass, which can Give life to the' ashes of a man ; But verses only : they shall fresh appear, Whilst there are men to read or hear.

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