Specimens of the Early English Poets,: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language;Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row., 1811 - English poetry |
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... Yield Cæsar's tears upon Pompeius ' head ! [ And ] some , that watched with the murderer's knife With eager thirst to drink thy guiltless blood , Whose practice brake by happy end of life , With envious tears to hear thy fame so good ...
... Yield Cæsar's tears upon Pompeius ' head ! [ And ] some , that watched with the murderer's knife With eager thirst to drink thy guiltless blood , Whose practice brake by happy end of life , With envious tears to hear thy fame so good ...
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... yield unto mischance . A valiant corps , where force and beauty met ; Happy , alas ! too happy , but for foes ; Lived and ran the race that Nature set ; Of manhood's shape where she the mold did lose . * 1 Affection . Description of the ...
... yield unto mischance . A valiant corps , where force and beauty met ; Happy , alas ! too happy , but for foes ; Lived and ran the race that Nature set ; Of manhood's shape where she the mold did lose . * 1 Affection . Description of the ...
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... yields to none " of his contemporaries , for a masterly choice of chaste " expression , and the concise elegancies of didactic ver- " sification . Some of the couplets in his poem in praise " of moderation have all the smartness which ...
... yields to none " of his contemporaries , for a masterly choice of chaste " expression , and the concise elegancies of didactic ver- " sification . Some of the couplets in his poem in praise " of moderation have all the smartness which ...
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... yield . This sage then in the stars had spied the Fates Threaten'd him death , without delay ; and sithe He saw he could not fatal order change , Forward he press'd , in battle that he might Meet with the ruler of the Macedons ; Of his ...
... yield . This sage then in the stars had spied the Fates Threaten'd him death , without delay ; and sithe He saw he could not fatal order change , Forward he press'd , in battle that he might Meet with the ruler of the Macedons ; Of his ...
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... yielding strained ghost from welkin high With loathy cheer lord Phoebus ' gan behold , And in black cloud , they say , long hid his head . The Latin Muses , and the Grayes they wept , And for his fall eternally shall weep . And lo ...
... yielding strained ghost from welkin high With loathy cheer lord Phoebus ' gan behold , And in black cloud , they say , long hid his head . The Latin Muses , and the Grayes they wept , And for his fall eternally shall weep . And lo ...
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Page 220 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 342 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 334 - Tell them that brave it most, They beg for more by spending, Who, in their greatest cost, Seek nothing but commending: And if they make reply Then give them all the lie.
Page 351 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 221 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page 358 - If he be addict to vice, Quickly him they will entice ; If to women he be bent, They have at commandement : But if Fortune once do frown, Then farewell his great renown ; They that fawn'd on him before Use his company no more. He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need : If thou sorrow, he will weep ; If thou wake, he cannot sleep ; Thus of every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.
Page 348 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 263 - My true love hath my heart and I have his. His heart in me keeps him and me in one, My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides; He loves my heart, for once it was his own, I cherish his, because in me it bides. My true love hath my heart and I have his.
Page 355 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 243 - At cards for kisses, Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows...