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... called The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll , 1600 , where an enchanter says : - ' Twas I that led you through the painted meads When the light fairies danc'd upon the flowers , Hanging on every leaf an orient pearl . ' Malone pointed out that ...
... called The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll , 1600 , where an enchanter says : - ' Twas I that led you through the painted meads When the light fairies danc'd upon the flowers , Hanging on every leaf an orient pearl . ' Malone pointed out that ...
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... called A Midsummer Night's Dreame , wythe the freakes of the fayries , ' which is said to have been published in 1595. But Chetwood's descriptions have been pronounced fictitious by Steevens , and the spelling of ' wythe ' is sufficient ...
... called A Midsummer Night's Dreame , wythe the freakes of the fayries , ' which is said to have been published in 1595. But Chetwood's descriptions have been pronounced fictitious by Steevens , and the spelling of ' wythe ' is sufficient ...
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... called beggary . But how was his death , any more than that of Spenser , to be the occasion of " some satire keen and critical " ? Every student of our literary history will remember the famous controversy of Nash and Gabriel Harvey ...
... called beggary . But how was his death , any more than that of Spenser , to be the occasion of " some satire keen and critical " ? Every student of our literary history will remember the famous controversy of Nash and Gabriel Harvey ...
Page viii
... called Wits Miserie , and the Worlds Madnesse ; discovering the Incarnate Devils of this age . ' Lodge's tract was printed in 1596 , and as he mentions other poets and suppresses Shakespeare's name Chalmers infers that Shakespeare in ...
... called Wits Miserie , and the Worlds Madnesse ; discovering the Incarnate Devils of this age . ' Lodge's tract was printed in 1596 , and as he mentions other poets and suppresses Shakespeare's name Chalmers infers that Shakespeare in ...
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... called a mermaid , 1. To denote her reign over a kingdom situate in the sea , and 2. Her beauty and intemperate lust . ' That she was on a dolphin's back points to her marriage with the dauphin of France . ' Uttering such dulcet and ...
... called a mermaid , 1. To denote her reign over a kingdom situate in the sea , and 2. Her beauty and intemperate lust . ' That she was on a dolphin's back points to her marriage with the dauphin of France . ' Uttering such dulcet and ...
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Page 14 - No night is now with hymn or carol blest : Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound : And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Page 71 - That it should come to this! But two months dead - nay, not so much, not two So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 3 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 63 - Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud.
Page 71 - And strait conjunction with this sex ; for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her gain'd By a far worse ; or, if she love, withheld By parents ; or his happiest choice too late Shall meet, already link'd and wedlock-bound To a fell adversary, his hate or shame : Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life, and household peace confound.
Page 8 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Page 69 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 14 - Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which. And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension; We are their parents and original.
Page 28 - Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, -. With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes...
Page 136 - And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I...