Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, Volume 6F. C. & J. Rivington, 1812 - Bibliography |
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... Hand in hand with Queen Desire ; And with a dart that wounded me , hart as I did lie : Pearst my That when I woke I gan sweare , Phillis beauty palme did beare . Up I start , and forth went I , With her face to feede mine eye : There I ...
... Hand in hand with Queen Desire ; And with a dart that wounded me , hart as I did lie : Pearst my That when I woke I gan sweare , Phillis beauty palme did beare . Up I start , and forth went I , With her face to feede mine eye : There I ...
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... hand receives a better crowne Than was his kingdomes transitory one . By thee he conquers Death and Time , thy words Yield him his honour more than could by swords , And gaine a nobler victorie than he Obtained oer usurpers tyrannie ...
... hand receives a better crowne Than was his kingdomes transitory one . By thee he conquers Death and Time , thy words Yield him his honour more than could by swords , And gaine a nobler victorie than he Obtained oer usurpers tyrannie ...
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William Beloe. For whilst our browes ambitious be , And youth at hand awaits us , It is a pretty thing to see How finely Beauty cheats us . And whilst with Tyme we trifling stand , To practise antique graces , Age with a pale and withered ...
William Beloe. For whilst our browes ambitious be , And youth at hand awaits us , It is a pretty thing to see How finely Beauty cheats us . And whilst with Tyme we trifling stand , To practise antique graces , Age with a pale and withered ...
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... hand by his exameters dactilicke and spondaicke in the translation of Virgills Eneidos , and such as for a great number of them my stomache can hardly digest , for the ill shapen sound of many of his words polisillable , and also his ...
... hand by his exameters dactilicke and spondaicke in the translation of Virgills Eneidos , and such as for a great number of them my stomache can hardly digest , for the ill shapen sound of many of his words polisillable , and also his ...
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... hand would take the grace And figure , of some admirable face , Struck with the sight he lets his pencil fall , And when his hand should work , his eye does all . Yet if a sense of thy sweet fancy may Inspire a resolution to betray , My ...
... hand would take the grace And figure , of some admirable face , Struck with the sight he lets his pencil fall , And when his hand should work , his eye does all . Yet if a sense of thy sweet fancy may Inspire a resolution to betray , My ...
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Page 419 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For dame Religion, as for punk...
Page 48 - Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair, Or but as mild as she is seeming so, Then were my hopes greater than my despair, Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe. Ah, were her heart relenting as her hand, That seems to melt even with the mildest touch, Then knew I where to seat me in a land, Under wide heavens, but yet [I know] not such.
Page 159 - Proud lust-stung Tarquine, seeking still to prove her, Romeo, Richard, more whose names I know not, Their sugred tongues and power attractive...
Page 174 - Midas gape for more; I neither want nor yet abound, — Enough's a feast, content is crowned. I feign not friendship where I hate; I fawn not on the great (in show) ; I prize, I praise a mean estate, — Neither too lofty nor too low: This, this is all my choice, my cheer, — A mind content, a conscience clear.
Page 159 - Adonis with his amber tresses, Faire fire-hot Venus charming him to love her, Chaste Lucretia, virgine-like her dresses, Proud lust-stung Tarquine, seeking still to prove her...
Page 156 - Epigrammes in the oldest Cut and newest Fashion. A twise seven Houres (in so many Weekes) Studie. No longer (like the Fashion) not unlike to continue.
Page 209 - twixt hope and fear, into death's eternal slumber. Lest my foes their boasting make, " spite of right on him we trample ;" And a pride in mischief take, hearten'd by my sad example. As for me, I'll ride secure at Thy mercy's sacred anchor, And undaunted will endure fiercest storms of wrong and rancour. These...
Page 194 - ... fair Ah braid no more that shining hair! As my curious hand or eye, Hovering round thee let it fly. Let it fly as unconfined As its calm ravisher, the wind; Who hath left his darling th' East, To wanton o'er that spicy nest.
Page 265 - NEWES of the COMPLEMENT of the ART of NAVIGATION, and of the mightie Empire of CATAIA ; together with the Straits of Anian.
Page 297 - I found it to trend towardes the west : I still followed the leading thereof in the same height, and after fiftie or...