Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, Volumen3W. Bulmer and Company, 1803 - 458 páginas |
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... lov'd Narcissus in the mirror Of your fair eyes now sees his error , And from the flattering fountain turns ; The hyacinth no longer mourns . This Heliotrope , which did pursue Th ' adored sun , converts to you . Chaste Daphne bends her ...
... lov'd Narcissus in the mirror Of your fair eyes now sees his error , And from the flattering fountain turns ; The hyacinth no longer mourns . This Heliotrope , which did pursue Th ' adored sun , converts to you . Chaste Daphne bends her ...
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... lov'd , with thee all love I leave ; For my chaste flames , which quench'd were with thy breath , 2 Can kindle now no more but in thy grave ! SONG . [ From " Aurora . " ] OH would to God a way were found That by some secret sympathy ...
... lov'd , with thee all love I leave ; For my chaste flames , which quench'd were with thy breath , 2 Can kindle now no more but in thy grave ! SONG . [ From " Aurora . " ] OH would to God a way were found That by some secret sympathy ...
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... lov'd presence is . " Only , if love's fire with the breath " Of life be kindled , I doubt , " With our last air ' twill be breath'd out , " And quenched with the cold of death . " Then , with a look , it seem'd denied All earthly power ...
... lov'd presence is . " Only , if love's fire with the breath " Of life be kindled , I doubt , " With our last air ' twill be breath'd out , " And quenched with the cold of death . " Then , with a look , it seem'd denied All earthly power ...
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... lov'd the very thought of her , whilst he remained here . And now farewell , thou place of my unhappy birth , Where once I breath'd the sweetest air on earth . Since me my wonted joys forsake , And all my trust deceive , Of all I take ...
... lov'd the very thought of her , whilst he remained here . And now farewell , thou place of my unhappy birth , Where once I breath'd the sweetest air on earth . Since me my wonted joys forsake , And all my trust deceive , Of all I take ...
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... lov'd you , and often with my quill Made music that delighted fountain , grove , and hill , I , whom you loved so , and with a sweet and chaste embrace , Yea , with a thousand rarer favours would vouchsafe to grace , I now must leave ...
... lov'd you , and often with my quill Made music that delighted fountain , grove , and hill , I , whom you loved so , and with a sweet and chaste embrace , Yea , with a thousand rarer favours would vouchsafe to grace , I now must leave ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Admet Æneid Anon Beaumont Beaumont and Fletcher beauty beauty's Biographia Dramatica birds born breast breath Carew Castara chaste Chloris Corpus Christi College court Cupid dear death delight died disdain dost doth earth Edgar Atheling English Exeter College extracted eyes fair fancy fate fear flame flowers folly Francis Beaumont GILES FLETCHER grace grief happy hath hear heart heaven honour joys king kiss Laius Langbaine language leave live lord lov'd Love's Love's cruelty lover maid MATTHEW STEVENSON melancholy mind miscellany mistress morning Muses ne'er never night nymph o'er Oxford passion Phillis Picts pleasure poems poet poetry praise printed reign rose Saxon says Wood scorn Shakspeare sighs sing smile SONG SONNET sorrow soul spring stanzas star Surrey sweet taste tears tell thee thine thing thou art thought unto wanton weep Whilst wind wings youth
Pasajes populares
Página 132 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armour against Fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 278 - Enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.
Página 193 - Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Página 244 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Página 126 - But Time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And wither'd in my hand. My hand was next to them, and then my heart ; I took, without more thinking, in good part Time's gentle admonition ; Who did so sweetly death's sad taste convey, Making my mind to smell my fatal day, Yet sugaring the suspicion.
Página 277 - Our hearts with loyal flames; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Página 277 - PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Página 276 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Página 252 - Marched boldly up, like our trained band, Presented, and away. When all the meat was on the table What man of knife, or teeth, was able To stay to be intreated ? And this the very reason was Before the parson could say grace The company was seated.
Página 222 - Now the bright Morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose.