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... hard lords and ravening souldiers ? And againe by Tityrus , what blessednesse is derived to them that lye lowest , from the goodnesse of them that sit highest ? Sometimes , under the prettie tales of wolves and sheepe , can include the ...
... hard lords and ravening souldiers ? And againe by Tityrus , what blessednesse is derived to them that lye lowest , from the goodnesse of them that sit highest ? Sometimes , under the prettie tales of wolves and sheepe , can include the ...
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... hard for me to refuse the request made by you all , whom , every one alone , I should for many respects be willing to gratifie ; yet , as the case standeth , I doubt not but , with the consent of the most part of you , I shall be ...
... hard for me to refuse the request made by you all , whom , every one alone , I should for many respects be willing to gratifie ; yet , as the case standeth , I doubt not but , with the consent of the most part of you , I shall be ...
Page xxxvii
... hard , " Of Cynthia the Ladie of the Sea ; " which Spenser tells us was the song of his friend . A private " Letter ( as it is entitled ) from Raleigh to Sir George Carew , dated Decemb . 27. 1589 , of which our historians have taken no ...
... hard , " Of Cynthia the Ladie of the Sea ; " which Spenser tells us was the song of his friend . A private " Letter ( as it is entitled ) from Raleigh to Sir George Carew , dated Decemb . 27. 1589 , of which our historians have taken no ...
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... hard , that forced him to speake . As one then in a dreame , whose dryer braine Is tost with troubled sights and fancies weake , He mumbled soft , but would not all his silence breake . XLIII . The Sprite then gan more boldly him to ...
... hard , that forced him to speake . As one then in a dreame , whose dryer braine Is tost with troubled sights and fancies weake , He mumbled soft , but would not all his silence breake . XLIII . The Sprite then gan more boldly him to ...
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... hard avenging destinie Hath made iudge of my life or death indifferently : L.II. " Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave My fathers kingdom " -There she stopt with teares ; Her swollen hart her speech seemd to bereave ; And ...
... hard avenging destinie Hath made iudge of my life or death indifferently : L.II. " Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave My fathers kingdom " -There she stopt with teares ; Her swollen hart her speech seemd to bereave ; And ...
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Page 126 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 98 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant?
Page 427 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To loose good dayes, that might be better spent ; To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow...
Page 12 - Then choosing out few words most horrible, (Let none them read) thereof did verses frame; With which, and other spelles like terrible, He bad awake blacke Plutoes griesly Dame; And cursed heven; and spake reprochful shame Of highest God, the Lord of life and light: A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night; At which Cocytus quakes, and Styx is put to flight.
Page 49 - Or from the field most cowardly doth fly ? Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill, That thorough grace hath gained victory. If any strength we have, it is to ill, But all the good is Gods, both power and eke will.
Page 466 - As each had bene a Bryde ; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled curiously, In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine Fingers crept full feateously The tender stalkes on hye.
Page 11 - At length they chaunst to meet upon the way An aged sire, in long blacke weedes yclad, His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray, And by his belt his booke he hanging had ; Sober he seemde, and very sagely sad ; And to the ground...
Page 18 - One day, nigh wearie of the yrkesome way, From her unhastie beast she did alight; And on the grasse her dainty limbs did lay In...
Page 64 - They all perfumde with frankincense divine, And precious odours fetcht from far away, That all the house did sweat with great aray: And all the while sweete Musicke did apply Her curious skill the warbling notes to play, To drive away the dull Melancholy; The whiles one sung a song of love and jollity. 39 During the which there was an heavenly noise Heard sound through all the pallace pleasantly, Like as it had bene many an Angels voice Singing before th...
Page 2 - For this cause is Xenophon preferred before Plato, for that the one, in the exquisite depth of his judgement...