Bell's Edition, Volumes 23-24J. Bell, 1799 - English poetry |
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... learning and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and his posterity , yet , the reader may be pleased to know that his father was li- neally descended from a very ancient family in Wales , where ...
... learning and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and his posterity , yet , the reader may be pleased to know that his father was li- neally descended from a very ancient family in Wales , where ...
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... learning and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and his posterity , yet the reader may be pleased to know that his father was li- neally descended from a very ancient family in Wales , where ...
... learning and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and his posterity , yet the reader may be pleased to know that his father was li- neally descended from a very ancient family in Wales , where ...
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... learning , expressed in public exercises , declared him worthy , to receive his first degree in the schools , which he forbore by advice from his friends , who , being for their religion of the Romish persuasion , were ' conscionably ...
... learning , expressed in public exercises , declared him worthy , to receive his first degree in the schools , which he forbore by advice from his friends , who , being for their religion of the Romish persuasion , were ' conscionably ...
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... learning , lan- gu ges , and other abilities , and much affecting his per- son and condition , took him to be his chief Secretary , supposing and intending it to be an introduction to some more weighty employment in the state , for ...
... learning , lan- gu ges , and other abilities , and much affecting his per- son and condition , took him to be his chief Secretary , supposing and intending it to be an introduction to some more weighty employment in the state , for ...
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... learning and virtue , and is now ( be it spoken with sor- row ) reduced to a narrow estate , which he embraces without repining , and still shews the beauty of his mind by so liberal a hand , as if this were an age in which " to ...
... learning and virtue , and is now ( be it spoken with sor- row ) reduced to a narrow estate , which he embraces without repining , and still shews the beauty of his mind by so liberal a hand , as if this were an age in which " to ...
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Page 10 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 136 - Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Page 9 - As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say 'The breath goes now,' and some say 'No'; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears, Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence, because...
Page 160 - For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout; With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his Honour, or his Grace, Or the King's real, or his stamped face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love.
Page 11 - And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation. As 'twixt two equal armies Fate Suspends uncertain victory, Our souls — which to advance their state Were gone out — hung 'twixt her and me. And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral statues lay; All day the same our postures were, And we said nothing, all the day.
Page 157 - In that the world's contracted thus; Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.
Page 87 - Christ's Cross, and Adam's tree, stood in one place; Look Lord, and find both Adams met in me; As the first Adam's sweat surrounds my face, May the last Adam's blood my soul embrace. So, in His purple wrapp'd receive me Lord, By these His thorns give me His other Crown; And as to others...
Page 153 - SONG Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot; Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.
Page 152 - Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown; Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest, Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without declining west?
Page 20 - THE FUNERAL WHOEVER comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair about mine arm; The mystery, the sign, you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that which, unto heav'n being gone, Will leave this to control And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.