The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of Henry Vaughan, Silurist: Secular poetryprivate circulation, 1871 - English literature |
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... ev'ry sence , But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse . O how I long to travel back , And tread again that ancient track ! That I might once more reach that plaine , Where first I left my glorious ...
... ev'ry sence , But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse . O how I long to travel back , And tread again that ancient track ! That I might once more reach that plaine , Where first I left my glorious ...
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... ev'ry street : Now when each narrow lane , each nooke and cave , Signe - posts and shop - doors , pimp for ev'ry knave , 1 Tapster , waiter , as before . G. 2 More accurately , ' catch - poll ' = a bailiff's assistant : a derisive name ...
... ev'ry street : Now when each narrow lane , each nooke and cave , Signe - posts and shop - doors , pimp for ev'ry knave , 1 Tapster , waiter , as before . G. 2 More accurately , ' catch - poll ' = a bailiff's assistant : a derisive name ...
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... ev'ry object was Addition to his store ; though then — alas ! — Sedans , and litters , and our senat gownes , 2 With robes of honour , fasces , and the frownes Of unbrib'd tribunes were not seene ; but had 1 The laugher was Democritus ...
... ev'ry object was Addition to his store ; though then — alas ! — Sedans , and litters , and our senat gownes , 2 With robes of honour , fasces , and the frownes Of unbrib'd tribunes were not seene ; but had 1 The laugher was Democritus ...
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... ev'ry object had a suddaine birth ; Nor wast alone their avarice or pride , Their triumphs or their cares he did deride ; Their vaine contentions or ridiculous feares , But even their very poverty , and teares . He would at Fortune's ...
... ev'ry object had a suddaine birth ; Nor wast alone their avarice or pride , Their triumphs or their cares he did deride ; Their vaine contentions or ridiculous feares , But even their very poverty , and teares . He would at Fortune's ...
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... ev'ry Roman bow'd To pay his safetie's vowes ; but when that face Had lost Tyberius once , it's former grace Was soone eclips'd ; no diff'rence made - alas ! — Betwixt his statue then , and common brasse ; They melt alike , and in the ...
... ev'ry Roman bow'd To pay his safetie's vowes ; but when that face Had lost Tyberius once , it's former grace Was soone eclips'd ; no diff'rence made - alas ! — Betwixt his statue then , and common brasse ; They melt alike , and in the ...
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