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 9
... keeps time to the feveral muficks , Plac'd in the facred concert of her beauties : Love's compleat armoury is manag'd in her , To ftir affection , and the difcipline To check and to affright it from attempting . Any attaint might ...
... keeps time to the feveral muficks , Plac'd in the facred concert of her beauties : Love's compleat armoury is manag'd in her , To ftir affection , and the difcipline To check and to affright it from attempting . Any attaint might ...
Pagina 16
... Keeps as conceal'd , affliction muft express And only men fhew their abilities , And what they are , in their extremities . The world had never taken fo full note Of what thou art , hadft thou not been undone ; And only thy affliction ...
... Keeps as conceal'd , affliction muft express And only men fhew their abilities , And what they are , in their extremities . The world had never taken fo full note Of what thou art , hadft thou not been undone ; And only thy affliction ...
Pagina 23
... keep mine own road ; a true mendicant ; What pleasure this day yields me , I never covet To lay up for the morrow ; and methinks ever Another man's cook dreffes my diet neatest . Beaumont's and Fletcher's Monfieur Thomas . 1. What pity ...
... keep mine own road ; a true mendicant ; What pleasure this day yields me , I never covet To lay up for the morrow ; and methinks ever Another man's cook dreffes my diet neatest . Beaumont's and Fletcher's Monfieur Thomas . 1. What pity ...
Pagina 32
... Keeps mankind fweet by action , without that , The world would be a filthy settled mud . Crown's Ambitious Statesman . ANCESTORS . Boaft not these titles of your ancestors , yours : Brave youths ; they're their poffeffions , none of ...
... Keeps mankind fweet by action , without that , The world would be a filthy settled mud . Crown's Ambitious Statesman . ANCESTORS . Boaft not these titles of your ancestors , yours : Brave youths ; they're their poffeffions , none of ...
Pagina 41
... Of what thou haft in keeping ; the whole Indies , Seeing they are but newly discover'd , : Are not to be valu'd with them the very Duft that cleaves to one of those Monuments , Is Is more worth than the Oar of twenty Mines . ANT 41.
... Of what thou haft in keeping ; the whole Indies , Seeing they are but newly discover'd , : Are not to be valu'd with them the very Duft that cleaves to one of those Monuments , Is Is more worth than the Oar of twenty Mines . ANT 41.
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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