La Musa Madrigalesca: Or, A Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, Roundelays, Etc., Chiefly of the Elizabethan Age; with Remarks and Annotations. By Thomas Oliphant |
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... original , but mostly consisting of passages from other works tending to illustrate the different sub- jects under consideration . To Burton I am indebted ( as other compilers have been before me ) for many a hint or quaint comparison ...
... original , but mostly consisting of passages from other works tending to illustrate the different sub- jects under consideration . To Burton I am indebted ( as other compilers have been before me ) for many a hint or quaint comparison ...
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... original , for the benefit of those who have not lately been at school . " Hanc tua Penelope lento tibi mittit , Ulysse , " Nil mihi rescribas , attamen ipse veni . " Troja jacet certe , Danais invisa puellis ; " Vix Priamus tanti ...
... original , for the benefit of those who have not lately been at school . " Hanc tua Penelope lento tibi mittit , Ulysse , " Nil mihi rescribas , attamen ipse veni . " Troja jacet certe , Danais invisa puellis ; " Vix Priamus tanti ...
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... original , and at the same time is so natural that one is surprised at not having been struck with it , while on a voyage from London to Westminster . To be in her danger , means to be in her power , or caught in her toils . As in the ...
... original , and at the same time is so natural that one is surprised at not having been struck with it , while on a voyage from London to Westminster . To be in her danger , means to be in her power , or caught in her toils . As in the ...
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... original of this epigram , ( for it is but a translation . ) Something of the kind is in the Diana of George de Montemayor , a Spanish writer , A.D. 1580 , thus rendered by Sir Philip Sydney : " On sandy bank of late " I saw this woman ...
... original of this epigram , ( for it is but a translation . ) Something of the kind is in the Diana of George de Montemayor , a Spanish writer , A.D. 1580 , thus rendered by Sir Philip Sydney : " On sandy bank of late " I saw this woman ...
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... original Italian : " Questi ch ' indizio fan del mio tormento , 66 Sospir non sono , ne i sospir son tali : " Quelli han triegua tal hor , io mai non sento " Ch ' il petto mio men la sua pen ' eshali ; " Amor che m ' ard ' il cor fa ...
... original Italian : " Questi ch ' indizio fan del mio tormento , 66 Sospir non sono , ne i sospir son tali : " Quelli han triegua tal hor , io mai non sento " Ch ' il petto mio men la sua pen ' eshali ; " Amor che m ' ard ' il cor fa ...
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Page 282 - 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 206 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my good is but vain hope of gain. The day is past, and yet I saw no sun, And now I live, and now my life is done.
Page 15 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Page 307 - Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears : Yet slower, yet ; O faintly, gentle springs : List to the heavy part the music bears, Woe weeps out her division, when she sings. Droop herbs and flowers, Fall grief in showers, Our beauties are not ours...
Page 157 - And lovers' sonnets turned to holy psalms, A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are Age his alms: But though from court to cottage he depart, His Saint is sure of his unspotted heart. And when he saddest sits in homely cell, He'll teach his swains this carol for a song, — ''Blest be the hearts that wish my sovereign well, Curst be the souls that think her any wrong.
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Page 7 - ... their rage of will ; Their treasure is their only trust ; A cloaked craft their store of skill : But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind. My wealth is health and perfect ease : My conscience clear my chief defence ; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence : Thus do I live ; thus will I die ; Would all did so as well as I ! To PHILLIS THE FAIR SHEPHERDESS.
Page 253 - Where shall we our breakfast take?" "Downe in yonder greene field, There lies a knight slain under his shield. "His hounds they lie downe at his feete, So well they can their master keepe. "His haukes they flie so eagerly, There's no fowle dare him come nie.
Page 306 - ... go some to the woods and groves, some to the hills and mountains, some to one place, some to another, where they spend all the night in pleasant pastimes, and in the morning they return, bringing with them birch houghs, and lu. nu lir- of trees, to deck their assemblies withal.
Page 229 - Cherry-ripe" themselves do cry. Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row, Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds filled with snow, Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy Till "Cherry-ripe