Poems, Volume 2Lawrence & Bullen, 1896 |
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Page 93
... epitaph doth write thy doom . 30 Blind were those eyes , saw not how bright did shine Through flesh's misty veil those beams divine ; Deaf were the ears , not charm'd with that sweet sound Which did i ' th ' spirit's instructed voice ...
... epitaph doth write thy doom . 30 Blind were those eyes , saw not how bright did shine Through flesh's misty veil those beams divine ; Deaf were the ears , not charm'd with that sweet sound Which did i ' th ' spirit's instructed voice ...
Page 217
... epitaph is found in various MSS . , and is printed in Camden's Remains . " An ill year of a Goodyere us bereft , Who gone to God much lack of him here left ; Full of good gifts of body and of mind , Wise , comely , learned , eloquent ...
... epitaph is found in various MSS . , and is printed in Camden's Remains . " An ill year of a Goodyere us bereft , Who gone to God much lack of him here left ; Full of good gifts of body and of mind , Wise , comely , learned , eloquent ...
Page 219
... epitaph upon her by Henry Carey , Viscount Falkland . In 1600 her mother married as her second husband the Lord Keeper , Sir Thomas Egerton ( p . 96 , note ) . Lady Derby was a daughter of Sir John Spenser of Althorpe , and a kinswoman ...
... epitaph upon her by Henry Carey , Viscount Falkland . In 1600 her mother married as her second husband the Lord Keeper , Sir Thomas Egerton ( p . 96 , note ) . Lady Derby was a daughter of Sir John Spenser of Althorpe , and a kinswoman ...
Page 232
... Epitaph in spite of the initials in the Farmer - Chetham MS . It is much in his style , and none of the Elegies in his Poems is strictly an Epitaph . And if Jonson had written a laudatory epitaph , why did he not mention it to Drummond ...
... Epitaph in spite of the initials in the Farmer - Chetham MS . It is much in his style , and none of the Elegies in his Poems is strictly an Epitaph . And if Jonson had written a laudatory epitaph , why did he not mention it to Drummond ...
Page 283
... Epitaph the Rock shall groan ; Thus when sad lovers ask the weeping stone , What wretched thing does in that centre lie , The hollow echo will reply , ' twas I. " I have said very little in these notes about the evidence of style and ...
... Epitaph the Rock shall groan ; Thus when sad lovers ask the weeping stone , What wretched thing does in that centre lie , The hollow echo will reply , ' twas I. " I have said very little in these notes about the evidence of style and ...
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Page 304 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Page 111 - And new philosophy calls all in doubt ; The element of fire is quite put out ; The sun is lost, and th' earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men confess that this world's spent, When in the planets, and the firmament 210 They seek so many new ; they see that this Is crumbled out again to his atomies. 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone, All just supply, and all relation.
Page 188 - May all be bad ; doubt wisely ; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray ; To sleepe, or runne wrong, is.
Page 237 - Of my anniversaries, the fault that I acknowledge in myself, is to have descended to print anything in verse, which, though it have excuse in our times, by men who profess and practise much gravity ; yet I confess I wonder how I declined to it, and do not pardon myself.
Page 274 - No broken vows dwell here, nor pale-faced fears ; Then here I'll sit, and sigh my hot love's folly, And learn to affect a holy melancholy : And if contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it but in heaven again.
Page 110 - ... ancients seemed to prophesy, Wh.Ts they called virtues by the name of she ; - She, in whom virtue was so much refined, ' That for allay unto so pure a mind She took the weaker sex ; she that could drive The poisonous tincture, and the stain of Eve...
Page 135 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 122 - For her death wounded it. The world contains Princes for arms and counsellors for brains, Lawyers for tongues, divines for hearts, and more, The rich for stomachs, and for backs the poor; The officers for hands, merchants for feet, By which remote and distant countries meet: But those fine spirits, which do tune and set This organ, are those pieces which beget Wonder and love ; and these were she : and she Being spent, the world must needs decrepit be.
Page 306 - MY HEART. THOU sent'st to me a heart was sound, I took it to be thine ; But when I saw it had a wound, I knew that heart was mine.
Page 97 - I can do in verse; you know my uttermost when it was best, and even then I did best when I had least truth for my subjects. In this present case there is so much truth as it defeats all poetry.