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... thou have the scalle , But after my making thou write more trewe ! So oft a day I mote thy werke renewe , It to correct and eke to rubbe and scrape ; And all is thorow thy necligence and rape . These verses may stand as an example of ...
... thou have the scalle , But after my making thou write more trewe ! So oft a day I mote thy werke renewe , It to correct and eke to rubbe and scrape ; And all is thorow thy necligence and rape . These verses may stand as an example of ...
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... thou climb'st the skies ; and to the Highway , since you my chief Parnassus be - which even Hazlitt , who failed to admire the author , could not refrain from quoting . † Longfellow has called the Apologie a golden little volume , which ...
... thou climb'st the skies ; and to the Highway , since you my chief Parnassus be - which even Hazlitt , who failed to admire the author , could not refrain from quoting . † Longfellow has called the Apologie a golden little volume , which ...
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... Thou thy Creator's goodnesse dost declare And what deare gifts on thee hee did not spare , A staine to human sence in sinne that lowres . What soule can be so sicke , which by thy songs , Attir'd in sweetnesse , sweetly is not driuen ...
... Thou thy Creator's goodnesse dost declare And what deare gifts on thee hee did not spare , A staine to human sence in sinne that lowres . What soule can be so sicke , which by thy songs , Attir'd in sweetnesse , sweetly is not driuen ...
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... Thou with fresh hope the Lovers heart dost fill , ( b ) While the jolly hours lead on propitious May , ( a ) Thy liquid notes that close the eye of Day , ( a ) First heard before the shallow Cuccoo's bill ( b ) Portend success in love ...
... Thou with fresh hope the Lovers heart dost fill , ( b ) While the jolly hours lead on propitious May , ( a ) Thy liquid notes that close the eye of Day , ( a ) First heard before the shallow Cuccoo's bill ( b ) Portend success in love ...
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... Thou ( the speaker was Ellwood , the Quaker ) hast said much here of Paradise lost ; but what hast thou to say of Paradise found ? ' It is inferior to its predecessor , but , as is not unusual , its author valued it as of equal if not ...
... Thou ( the speaker was Ellwood , the Quaker ) hast said much here of Paradise lost ; but what hast thou to say of Paradise found ? ' It is inferior to its predecessor , but , as is not unusual , its author valued it as of equal if not ...
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Page 60 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature : had an excellent Phantsie ; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 111 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 163 - With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 159 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Page 163 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our...
Page 165 - Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic — yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Page 163 - This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Page 114 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 103 - Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he " Should only rule who most resembles me. " Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, " Mature in dulness from his tender years ; " Shadwell alone of all my sons is he " Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. " The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Page 256 - Thence what the lofty grave Tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous Orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...