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Elegy VII NATURE's lay idiot , I taught thee to love , And in that sophistry , Oh , thou dost prove Too subtle : Fool , thou didst not understand The mystic language of the eye nor hand : Nor couldst thou judge the difference of the air ...
Elegy VII NATURE's lay idiot , I taught thee to love , And in that sophistry , Oh , thou dost prove Too subtle : Fool , thou didst not understand The mystic language of the eye nor hand : Nor couldst thou judge the difference of the air ...
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To his Son Vincent Corbet What I shall leave thee , none can tell , But all shall say I wish thee well : I wish thee , Vin , before all wealth , Both bodily and ghostly health ; Nor too much wealth nor wit come to thee , So much of ...
To his Son Vincent Corbet What I shall leave thee , none can tell , But all shall say I wish thee well : I wish thee , Vin , before all wealth , Both bodily and ghostly health ; Nor too much wealth nor wit come to thee , So much of ...
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What fury , O son , Possesses thee to bend that mortal dart Against thy father's head ? And know'st for whom ? For him who sits above and laughs the while At thee ordained his drudge , to execute Whate'er his wrath , which he calls ...
What fury , O son , Possesses thee to bend that mortal dart Against thy father's head ? And know'st for whom ? For him who sits above and laughs the while At thee ordained his drudge , to execute Whate'er his wrath , which he calls ...
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Contents
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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