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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Pagina 18
... danger fafety comes , through trouble reft . John Marfton's Infatiate Countess . Though I have loft my fortune , and lost you For a worthy father : Yet I will not lofe My former virtue , my integrity Shall not yet forfake me : But as ...
... danger fafety comes , through trouble reft . John Marfton's Infatiate Countess . Though I have loft my fortune , and lost you For a worthy father : Yet I will not lofe My former virtue , my integrity Shall not yet forfake me : But as ...
Pagina 21
... danger , as Defence is , Beaumont's and Fletcher's Honeft Man's Fortung . Know when to fpeak ; for many times it brings Danger , to give the beft advice to Kings . ' Tis eafy for physicians for to tell Advice to others , when themselves ...
... danger , as Defence is , Beaumont's and Fletcher's Honeft Man's Fortung . Know when to fpeak ; for many times it brings Danger , to give the beft advice to Kings . ' Tis eafy for physicians for to tell Advice to others , when themselves ...
Pagina 36
... danger of it . When ftrong tides meet tides In a contracted channel , they their force Refign to the wearing of the troubled waves , A frothier livery than when oceans Encounter with full liberty . The winds Imprifon'd in the caverns of ...
... danger of it . When ftrong tides meet tides In a contracted channel , they their force Refign to the wearing of the troubled waves , A frothier livery than when oceans Encounter with full liberty . The winds Imprifon'd in the caverns of ...
Pagina 54
... danger ; they prepare To arm themselves compleatly at all parts , Offensive and defenfive ; one might swear They did fuch motions to their armour give , That iron breathed , and that steel did live . Aleyn's King Henry VII . May thy ...
... danger ; they prepare To arm themselves compleatly at all parts , Offensive and defenfive ; one might swear They did fuch motions to their armour give , That iron breathed , and that steel did live . Aleyn's King Henry VII . May thy ...
Pagina 113
... danger of defire . The charieft maid is prodigal enough , If the unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself ' fcapes not calumnious strokes ; The canker galls the infants of the spring , Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd ...
... danger of defire . The charieft maid is prodigal enough , If the unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself ' fcapes not calumnious strokes ; The canker galls the infants of the spring , Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd ...
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againſt Aleyn's Henry VII Antonio and Mellida Beaumont and Fletcher's beauty becauſe beft beſt Caligula Catiline caufe cauſe Chapman's court Crown's cuckold Cymbeline Cynthia's Revels Daniel's Davenant's Gondibert death defire doth ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe fair falfe fame fcorn fear feem fhall fhame fhew fince firft firſt fome fools foon fortune foul friendſhip ftand ftill fuch fure fweet Gondibert greateſt hath heart heav'n Henry VII himſelf honeft honour itſelf Johnson's juft Julius Cæfar King Henry VI lofe Lord Brook's Middleton's mind Mirror for Magiftrates moft moſt muft muſt never ourſelves Philotas Platonick Lovers pleaſure pow'r praiſe prince reafon reft Revenger's Tragedy ſeem Sejanus Shakespear's Shakespear's King ſhall ſhe Shirley's ſhould ſpeak Spenfer's Fairy Queen ſpirit ſtand ſtate Sterline's ſtill Tamburlaine thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou Trag Tragedy truft unto uſe virtue Whilft whofe whoſe wife
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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...
Pagina 43 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 253 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume...
Pagina 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