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... glory to our Land : Hold up difgraced Knowledge from the ground ; Keep Virtue in requeft ; give Worth her due . Let not Neglect with barb'rous means confound So fair a good , to bring in Night a - new ; Be not , O be not acceffary found ...
... glory to our Land : Hold up difgraced Knowledge from the ground ; Keep Virtue in requeft ; give Worth her due . Let not Neglect with barb'rous means confound So fair a good , to bring in Night a - new ; Be not , O be not acceffary found ...
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... glory - it was set to shew , How much our pride mocks that of other Lands . Whereon when as the gazing Paffenger Hath greedy look'd with admiration ; And fain would know his birth , and what he were ; How there erected ; and how long ...
... glory - it was set to shew , How much our pride mocks that of other Lands . Whereon when as the gazing Paffenger Hath greedy look'd with admiration ; And fain would know his birth , and what he were ; How there erected ; and how long ...
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... glory with the dead . That cannot fpeak , but leave their fame to chance . Confid'ring in how small a room do lie , And yet lie fafe , ( as frefh as if alive ) All thofe great Worthies of Antiquity , Which long foreliv'd thee , and ...
... glory with the dead . That cannot fpeak , but leave their fame to chance . Confid'ring in how small a room do lie , And yet lie fafe , ( as frefh as if alive ) All thofe great Worthies of Antiquity , Which long foreliv'd thee , and ...
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... glory fades , And finks at length in times obfcurer fhades , A fecond fall fucceeds , and double death invades . That monftrous beaft , which nurst in Tiber's fenne Did all the world with hideous shape affray ; That fill'd with coftly ...
... glory fades , And finks at length in times obfcurer fhades , A fecond fall fucceeds , and double death invades . That monftrous beaft , which nurst in Tiber's fenne Did all the world with hideous shape affray ; That fill'd with coftly ...
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... glory ; Would't thou by conqueft win more fame than he , Subdue thyfelfe ; thyfelfe's a world to thee . Earth's but a ball , that Heaven hath quilted ore With Wealth and Honour , banded on the floore Of fickle Fortune's falfe and ...
... glory ; Would't thou by conqueft win more fame than he , Subdue thyfelfe ; thyfelfe's a world to thee . Earth's but a ball , that Heaven hath quilted ore With Wealth and Honour , banded on the floore Of fickle Fortune's falfe and ...
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Page 107 - Love's latest breath, When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies; When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his eyes : Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.
Page 107 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part! Nay, I have done. You get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Page 162 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 149 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 149 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home: But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,— His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience,— That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 60 - Thou wilt not wake Till I thy fate shall overtake: Till age, or grief, or sickness must Marry my body to that dust It so much loves; and fill the room My heart keeps empty in thy tomb.
Page 85 - My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it; Stands and lies by me, does what I have done; This too familiar care does make me rue it: No means I find to rid him from my breast, Till by the end of things it be supprest.
Page 36 - I cannot, I, no, no ! it will not be. This is the cause that I could never yet Hang on their sleeves that weigh, as thou mayst see, A chip of chance more than a pound of wit.
Page 21 - LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood : Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in and paid to-night.
Page 174 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.