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Page 153
Sir , the year growing ancient , Not yet on summer's death , nor on the birth Of trembling winter , the fairest flowers o ' the season Are our carnations , and streak'd gillyvors , Which some call nature's bastards : of that kind Our ...
Sir , the year growing ancient , Not yet on summer's death , nor on the birth Of trembling winter , the fairest flowers o ' the season Are our carnations , and streak'd gillyvors , Which some call nature's bastards : of that kind Our ...
Page 477
When first young Maro in his boundless mind A work to outlast immortal Rome design'd , Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law , And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when to examine every part he came , Nature and ...
When first young Maro in his boundless mind A work to outlast immortal Rome design'd , Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law , And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when to examine every part he came , Nature and ...
Page 538
Tis all in vain to hold thy Tongue , Or touch the Hollow of my Thigh : Though every Sinew be unstrung , Out of my Arms Thou shalt not fly ; Wrestling I will not let Thee go , Till I thy Name , thy Nature know .
Tis all in vain to hold thy Tongue , Or touch the Hollow of my Thigh : Though every Sinew be unstrung , Out of my Arms Thou shalt not fly ; Wrestling I will not let Thee go , Till I thy Name , thy Nature know .
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
GEORGE CHAPMAN 15601634 | 54 |
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| Title | The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Spencer to Crabbe Oxford Paperbacks Volume 1 of The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry, Oxford library of English poetry |
| Author | Oxford library of English poetry |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192827987, 9780192827982 |
| Length | 659 pages |
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