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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... hope for life : Would angels fing A requiem at my hearfe , but to dispense With my revenge on thee , ' twere all in vain . Prepare to die . John Ford's Love's Sacrifice AFFECTION . Moft wretched man , That to affections does the bridle ...
... hope for life : Would angels fing A requiem at my hearfe , but to dispense With my revenge on thee , ' twere all in vain . Prepare to die . John Ford's Love's Sacrifice AFFECTION . Moft wretched man , That to affections does the bridle ...
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... hope , and end in fpoil . Look on th'ambitious man , and see him nurse His unjust hopes , with praises begg'd , or worse , Bought flatt'ries , the iffue of his purfe , ' Till he become both their , and his own curfe ! Farewel for ever ...
... hope , and end in fpoil . Look on th'ambitious man , and see him nurse His unjust hopes , with praises begg'd , or worse , Bought flatt'ries , the iffue of his purfe , ' Till he become both their , and his own curfe ! Farewel for ever ...
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... hope He might look upon me ; how to win his love , I know not ; If I wift he were not precife , I'd lay to purchase fome ftale interludes , And give him them ; books that have not attain'd To the platonick year , but wait their course ...
... hope He might look upon me ; how to win his love , I know not ; If I wift he were not precife , I'd lay to purchase fome ftale interludes , And give him them ; books that have not attain'd To the platonick year , but wait their course ...
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... hope of much , yet able To perform nothing , are like fhallow streams , That make themselves so many heav'ns to fight ; Since you may see in them , the moon and ftars , The blue space of the air , as far from us , To our weak fenfes ...
... hope of much , yet able To perform nothing , are like fhallow streams , That make themselves so many heav'ns to fight ; Since you may see in them , the moon and ftars , The blue space of the air , as far from us , To our weak fenfes ...
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... hope T ' inherit immortality in frailty , Live here till time be spent , yet be not old . John Ford and Thomas Dekker's Sun's Darling W BANISHMENT . E banish you our territories : You coufin Hereford , on pain of death , Till twice five ...
... hope T ' inherit immortality in frailty , Live here till time be spent , yet be not old . John Ford and Thomas Dekker's Sun's Darling W BANISHMENT . E banish you our territories : You coufin Hereford , on pain of death , Till twice five ...
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The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ... William Oldys,Thomas Hayward No preview available - 2016 |
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