The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 - English drama |
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... actions , paf- fions , fortunes , misfortunes , and all the vi- ciffitudes , of life . The merely fpeculative may here find experience ; the flattered , truth ; the diffident , refolution ; the pre- fumptuous , modefty ; the oppreffor ...
... actions , paf- fions , fortunes , misfortunes , and all the vi- ciffitudes , of life . The merely fpeculative may here find experience ; the flattered , truth ; the diffident , refolution ; the pre- fumptuous , modefty ; the oppreffor ...
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... ACTION . Away then , work with boldness , and with speed , On greatest actions greatest dangers feed . Chriftopher Marloe's Luft's Dominion . Checks and difafters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd ; As knots by the conflux of ...
... ACTION . Away then , work with boldness , and with speed , On greatest actions greatest dangers feed . Chriftopher Marloe's Luft's Dominion . Checks and difafters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd ; As knots by the conflux of ...
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... actions meet ; Wicked is not much worse than indifcreet . Dr. Donné . Things of this nature sprung When they mean action , must use little tongue . Middleton's and Rowley's Fair Quarrel . Good actions crown themselves with lasting bays ...
... actions meet ; Wicked is not much worse than indifcreet . Dr. Donné . Things of this nature sprung When they mean action , must use little tongue . Middleton's and Rowley's Fair Quarrel . Good actions crown themselves with lasting bays ...
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... action undertake . Hav'ng undertaken , thy endeavours bend To bring thy actions to a perfect end . Thomas Randolph . Time will be waited on by majesty ; ' Tis proper to an action , as place To bodies : When the winds are contrary , Wife ...
... action undertake . Hav'ng undertaken , thy endeavours bend To bring thy actions to a perfect end . Thomas Randolph . Time will be waited on by majesty ; ' Tis proper to an action , as place To bodies : When the winds are contrary , Wife ...
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... actions , but not fo ; The agents alter things ; and what does come , Pow'rful from thefe , flows weaker far from fome ; Thus the fun's light makes day , if it appear , And cafts true luftre round the hemifphere ; When if projected from ...
... actions , but not fo ; The agents alter things ; and what does come , Pow'rful from thefe , flows weaker far from fome ; Thus the fun's light makes day , if it appear , And cafts true luftre round the hemifphere ; When if projected from ...
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