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... written bad poems , before he left Scotland , calling himself modestly a royal apprentice at that craft . He had a certain knack at logical fence and loved to argue a man to death ; he had power of invective , as he showed in his ...
... written bad poems , before he left Scotland , calling himself modestly a royal apprentice at that craft . He had a certain knack at logical fence and loved to argue a man to death ; he had power of invective , as he showed in his ...
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... written brave poems ; who has fought gallant- ly and on many fields ; who has voyaged widely in Southern and Western seas ; who has made discovery of the Guianas ; who has , on a time , be- friended Spenser , and was mate - fellow with ...
... written brave poems ; who has fought gallant- ly and on many fields ; who has voyaged widely in Southern and Western seas ; who has made discovery of the Guianas ; who has , on a time , be- friended Spenser , and was mate - fellow with ...
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... written relating to Raleigh ) you will get a live glimpse of this noble knight of letters , and of those other brave and adventurous sailors of Devonshire , who in those times took the keels of Plymouth over great wastes of water ...
... written relating to Raleigh ) you will get a live glimpse of this noble knight of letters , and of those other brave and adventurous sailors of Devonshire , who in those times took the keels of Plymouth over great wastes of water ...
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... written gratulatory and fulsome verses to the new sover- eign . He is better placed with James than even with Elizabeth . If his tragedy of " Sejanus " has not found a great success , he has more than made up the failing by the ...
... written gratulatory and fulsome verses to the new sover- eign . He is better placed with James than even with Elizabeth . If his tragedy of " Sejanus " has not found a great success , he has more than made up the failing by the ...
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... written that " Merry Wives of Windsor , " tradition says , to show Queen Bess how the Fat Falstaff would carry his great hulk as a lover . We might meet this Shakespeare at that Mermaid Tavern we spoke of ; but should look out for him ...
... written that " Merry Wives of Windsor , " tradition says , to show Queen Bess how the Fat Falstaff would carry his great hulk as a lover . We might meet this Shakespeare at that Mermaid Tavern we spoke of ; but should look out for him ...
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Page 150 - Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 299 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 242 - CREATOR spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come visit every pious mind ; Come pour thy joys on human kind ; From sin and sorrow set us free, And make thy temples worthy thee.
Page 116 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Page 53 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 75 - For there his smell with others being mingled, The hot scent-snuffing hounds are driven to doubt, Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled With much ado the cold fault cleanly out ; Then do they spend their mouths : Echo replies, As if another chase were in the skies.
Page 38 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts, Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance. Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 138 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God ; at which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to...
Page 159 - Have linked that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate Foretell my hopeless doom, in some grove nigh; As thou from year to year hast sung too late For my relief, yet hadst no reason why. Whether the Muse or Love call thee his mate, Both them I serve, and of their train am I.
Page 71 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace. Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendour on my brow; But out, alack!