Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry: With Remarks, Volume 2T. Cadell, 1787 - 198 pages |
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... thou take fuch care To lengthen out thy life's short Kalendar ? When ev'ry spectacle thou look'st upon Presents and acts thy execution . Each drooping season and each flower doth cry , " Fool ! as I fade and wither , thou must dy ...
... thou take fuch care To lengthen out thy life's short Kalendar ? When ev'ry spectacle thou look'st upon Presents and acts thy execution . Each drooping season and each flower doth cry , " Fool ! as I fade and wither , thou must dy ...
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... , By Hengift and his Saxon treachery , Coming to parlee in peace at unaware , With this old legend then Credulity Holds her content , and closes up her care , And * And as for thee , thou huge and mighty DIDACTIC AND MORAL PIECES , 9.
... , By Hengift and his Saxon treachery , Coming to parlee in peace at unaware , With this old legend then Credulity Holds her content , and closes up her care , And * And as for thee , thou huge and mighty DIDACTIC AND MORAL PIECES , 9.
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... Thou shalt stand still bely'd and flandered , The only gazing - stock of Ignorance , And by thy guile the wife admonished , Shall never more defire such hopes t ' advance , Nor trust their living glory with the dead That cannot speak ...
... Thou shalt stand still bely'd and flandered , The only gazing - stock of Ignorance , And by thy guile the wife admonished , Shall never more defire such hopes t ' advance , Nor trust their living glory with the dead That cannot speak ...
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... thou to Childhood ? then , behold , what toies Doe mocke the sense , how shallow are thy joyes , Com'st Com'st thou to downie yeares ? See , how deceits 12 DIDACTIC AND MORAL PIECES . The Idea Beatifical, by G Fletcher II Reflections on ...
... thou to Childhood ? then , behold , what toies Doe mocke the sense , how shallow are thy joyes , Com'st Com'st thou to downie yeares ? See , how deceits 12 DIDACTIC AND MORAL PIECES . The Idea Beatifical, by G Fletcher II Reflections on ...
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... thou attain'd at length to full perfection Of ripen'd yeares ? Ambition hath now fent Thee on her frothy errand ... thou decrepit ? then thy very breath Is grievous to thee , and each griefe's a death . Looke where thou lift , thy ...
... thou attain'd at length to full perfection Of ripen'd yeares ? Ambition hath now fent Thee on her frothy errand ... thou decrepit ? then thy very breath Is grievous to thee , and each griefe's a death . Looke where thou lift , thy ...
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Page 107 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part! Nay, I have done. You get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Page 149 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 60 - Thou wilt not wake Till I thy fate shall overtake: Till age, or grief, or sickness must Marry my body to that dust It so much loves; and fill the room My heart keeps empty in thy tomb.
Page 156 - My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 149 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home: But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,— His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience,— That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 36 - I cannot, I, no, no ! it will not be. This is the cause that I could never yet Hang on their sleeves that weigh, as thou mayst see, A chip of chance more than a pound of wit.
Page 90 - Must call thee so, the rich affection's store That fed our hopes lies now exhaust and spent, Like sums of treasure unto bankrupts lent. We that did nothing study but the way To love each other, with which thoughts the day Rose with delight to us, and with them set, Must learn the hateful art how to forget. We that did nothing wish that...
Page 21 - LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood : Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in and paid to-night.
Page 104 - With feigned solace ease a true-felt woe; Or if, deaf god, thou do deny that grace, Come as thou wilt, and what thou wilt bequeath, I long to kiss the image of my death.
Page 29 - Tis vain to flee, till gentle mercy show Her better eye ; the farther off we go, The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow. Th...