Masques and Entertainments

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G. Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1890 - 439 pages

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Page 58 - IT is a noble and just advantage that the things subjected to understanding have of those which are objected to sense ; that the one sort are but momentary, and merely taking; the other impressing, and lasting : else the glory of all these solemnities had perished like a blaze, and gone out in the beholders
Page 36 - First, for the scene, was drawn a Umtifadjap (landscape) consisting of small woods, and here and there a void place filled with huntings ; which falling, an artificial sea was seen to shoot forth, as if it flowed to the land, raised with waves which seemed to move, and in some places the billows to break, as imitating that orderly disorder which is common in nature.
Page 104 - Dame, dame ! the watch is set : Quickly come, we all are met.— From the lakes, and from the fens, From the rocks, and from the dens, From the woods, and from the caves, From the church-yards, from the graves, From the dungeon, from the tree That they die on, here are we ! Comes she not yet ? Strike another heat.
Page 90 - She that will but now discover Where the winge'd wag doth hover, Shall to-night receive a kiss, How or where herself would wish : But, who brings him to his mother, Shall have that kiss, and another.
Page 36 - From their backs were borne out certain light pieces of taffata, as if carried by the wind, and their music made out of wreathed shells. Behind these, a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously seated; between which, two great sea-horses, as big as the life, put forth themselves, the one mounting aloft, and writhing his head from the other which seemed to sink...
Page 393 - She that pinches country wenches, If they rub not clean their benches, And with sharper nails remembers When they rake not up their embers : But if so they chance to feast her, In a shoe she drops a tester.
Page 303 - Hunting, it is the noblest exercise, Makes men laborious, active, wise, Brings health, and doth the spirits delight, It helps the hearing and the sight : It teacheth arts that never slip The memory, good horsemanship, Search, sharpness, courage, and defence, And chaseth all ill habits thence.
Page 394 - ... take a row of pins and pull out every one, one after another, saying a...
Page 225 - See how they come and show, That are but born to know. Descend, Descend ! Though pleasure lead, Fear not to follow : They who are bred Within the hill Of skill, May safely tread What path they will, No ground of good is hollow.
Page 284 - O mihi turn longae maneat pars ultima vitae, spiritus et quantum sat erit tua dicere facta : non me carminibus vincet nee Thracius Orpheus, 55 nee Linus, huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit, Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo.

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