The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham, Página 127James Nichol, 1857 - 329 páginas |
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... born in Rouen , who acted as his amanuensis . At last , through the intercession of his brother - in - law , Scroope , he was permitted to return to England . This was on the 13th of January 1652. During all his residence on the ...
... born in Rouen , who acted as his amanuensis . At last , through the intercession of his brother - in - law , Scroope , he was permitted to return to England . This was on the 13th of January 1652. During all his residence on the ...
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... born , obsequious to her sport ; They roses seem , which in their early pride But half reveal , and half their beauties hide ; She the glad morning , which her beams does throw Upon their smiling leaves , and gilds them so ; Like bright ...
... born , obsequious to her sport ; They roses seem , which in their early pride But half reveal , and half their beauties hide ; She the glad morning , which her beams does throw Upon their smiling leaves , and gilds them so ; Like bright ...
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... ( Born for no one , but to delight the race Of men ) like Phoebus so divides her light , And warms us , that she stoops not from her height . 20 20 9 THYRSIS , GALATEA.1 THYRSIS . As lately I on silver Thames did ride , Sad Galatea on the ...
... ( Born for no one , but to delight the race Of men ) like Phoebus so divides her light , And warms us , that she stoops not from her height . 20 20 9 THYRSIS , GALATEA.1 THYRSIS . As lately I on silver Thames did ride , Sad Galatea on the ...
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... , so sweet a seat divorced . Her fate at once did hasty seem and slow ; At once too cruel , and unwilling too . Gloriana ' : Queen Henrietta . 9 20 30 THYRSIS . Under how hard a law are mortals born 16 WALLER'S POETICAL WORKS .
... , so sweet a seat divorced . Her fate at once did hasty seem and slow ; At once too cruel , and unwilling too . Gloriana ' : Queen Henrietta . 9 20 30 THYRSIS . Under how hard a law are mortals born 16 WALLER'S POETICAL WORKS .
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Edmund Waller George Gilfillan. THYRSIS . Under how hard a law are mortals born ! Whom now we envy , we anon must mourn ; What Heaven sets highest , and seems most to prize , Is soon removed from our wond'ring eyes ! But since the ...
Edmund Waller George Gilfillan. THYRSIS . Under how hard a law are mortals born ! Whom now we envy , we anon must mourn ; What Heaven sets highest , and seems most to prize , Is soon removed from our wond'ring eyes ! But since the ...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham Edmund Waller,Sir John Denham Vista completa - 1857 |
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Amoret Androgeus arms Atrides beauty behold bless'd blood bold bounty brave breast bright Charles CHLORIS clouds command COUNTESS OF CARLISLE Countess of Devonshire courage court crown'd dame death delight divine doth Dr Johnson earth EDMUND WALLER eyes fair fame fate fear fierce fire flame foes force friends give Gloriana glory gods grace grief hand happy haste hath heart heaven honour hope immortal Jove king LADY light live Lord Lucretius Maid's Tragedy matchless mighty mind mortal Muse noble nobler numbers nymph o'er once oppress'd passion peace Phoebus pleasure poem poetical poets praise Priam pride princes Pyrrhus Queen rage royal rude Saccharissa sacred shine sing song soul sweet sword taught tears tempest thee Theseus Thetis thine things thou thought THYRSIS trembling Troy Twas verse vex'd virtue Waller wind wise wonder wound youth
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Página 206 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 265 - That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations, and translators too : They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
Página 47 - ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown, His arms might do what this has done.
Página 216 - What barbarous invader sack'd the land ! But when he hears no Goth, no Turk, did bring This desolation, but a Christian king ; When nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs ; What does he think our sacrilege would spare, When such th...
Página 51 - Some other nymphs, with colours faint^ And pencil slow, may Cupid paint, And a weak heart in time destroy ; She has a stamp, and prints the boy; Can, with a single look, inflame The coldest breast, the rudest tame.
Página 209 - Horace his wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear.
Página 159 - 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. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Página 160 - How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Página 196 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home.
Página 216 - twixt anger, shame, and fear, Those for what's past, and this for what's too near, My eye, descending from the hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays. Thames, the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs ; Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hoi*. Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth t...