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... beautiful moral monstrosity of Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess ? Where does the dolphin gallop through the woods and the wild boar breast the waves , if not in the cantos of the Purple Island ? Who so ingenious as Herbert or Carew in ...
... beautiful moral monstrosity of Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess ? Where does the dolphin gallop through the woods and the wild boar breast the waves , if not in the cantos of the Purple Island ? Who so ingenious as Herbert or Carew in ...
Page 54
... beautiful or witty in itself . These verses , which Waller published as his earliest and which may be attributed to the year 1621 , have a structural peculiarity which is of the most curious importance . In his Epistle to the Earl of ...
... beautiful or witty in itself . These verses , which Waller published as his earliest and which may be attributed to the year 1621 , have a structural peculiarity which is of the most curious importance . In his Epistle to the Earl of ...
Page 57
... sings The loves and conquests of our Albion kings , Of the fourth Edward was his noble song , Fierce , goodly , valiant , beautiful and young , He rent the crown from vanquished Henry's head , Raised Waller and Sacharissa . 57.
... sings The loves and conquests of our Albion kings , Of the fourth Edward was his noble song , Fierce , goodly , valiant , beautiful and young , He rent the crown from vanquished Henry's head , Raised Waller and Sacharissa . 57.
Page 64
... beautiful portrait of her , by Vandyke , at Penshurst , says that she was born in 1617 ; but this seems to be conjectural . In this picture she appears as a lovely and buxom young shepherdess of about twenty . The lady is cruel , the ...
... beautiful portrait of her , by Vandyke , at Penshurst , says that she was born in 1617 ; but this seems to be conjectural . In this picture she appears as a lovely and buxom young shepherdess of about twenty . The lady is cruel , the ...
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... beautiful verses about me again ? " " Madam , " said the poet , with more of gallantry , we must hope , in his eyes than in his words , " when your ladyship is as young again ! " But before we turn from the Sacharissa episode which has ...
... beautiful verses about me again ? " " Madam , " said the poet , with more of gallantry , we must hope , in his eyes than in his words , " when your ladyship is as young again ! " But before we turn from the Sacharissa episode which has ...
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