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... [ True Love ] . ... Notes to Poems hitherto Uncollected C. Spurious Poems ... D. The Sheaf of Epigrams of 1652 E. Ignatius his Conclave ... F. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions LIST OF FIRST LINES ... ... ... ... PAGE 285 286 287 289 290 ...
... [ True Love ] . ... Notes to Poems hitherto Uncollected C. Spurious Poems ... D. The Sheaf of Epigrams of 1652 E. Ignatius his Conclave ... F. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions LIST OF FIRST LINES ... ... ... ... PAGE 285 286 287 289 290 ...
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... true . The mine , the magazine , the common - weal , The story of beauty , in Twickenham is , and you . 70 Who hath seen one , would both ; as , who had been In Paradise , would seek the cherubin . 1 TO SIR EDWARD HERBERT , NOW LORD ...
... true . The mine , the magazine , the common - weal , The story of beauty , in Twickenham is , and you . 70 Who hath seen one , would both ; as , who had been In Paradise , would seek the cherubin . 1 TO SIR EDWARD HERBERT , NOW LORD ...
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... true is that profession then Which you do use to make - that you know man . This makes it credible ; you have dwelt upon All worthy books , and now are such an one . Actions are authors , and of those in you Your friends find , every ...
... true is that profession then Which you do use to make - that you know man . This makes it credible ; you have dwelt upon All worthy books , and now are such an one . Actions are authors , and of those in you Your friends find , every ...
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... true Is known to any other , not to you . And you can never know it ; to admit No knowledge of your worth , is some of it . But since to you your praises discords be , Stoop others ' ills to meditate with me . O ! to confess we know not ...
... true Is known to any other , not to you . And you can never know it ; to admit No knowledge of your worth , is some of it . But since to you your praises discords be , Stoop others ' ills to meditate with me . O ! to confess we know not ...
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... true to you . Virtue has some perverseness , for she will Neither believe her good , nor others ' ill . Even in you , virtue's best paradise , Virtue hath some , but wise degrees of vice . Too many virtues , or too much of one , Begets ...
... true to you . Virtue has some perverseness , for she will Neither believe her good , nor others ' ill . Even in you , virtue's best paradise , Virtue hath some , but wise degrees of vice . Too many virtues , or too much of one , Begets ...
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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.