The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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Page 227
... loue , nor wandering knight , Legend I out in rimes all richly dight : Nor fright the reader , with the pagan vaunt Of mighty Mahound , and great Termagaunt ' . Nor list I sonnet of my mistress ' face , To paint some Blowesse 2 with a ...
... loue , nor wandering knight , Legend I out in rimes all richly dight : Nor fright the reader , with the pagan vaunt Of mighty Mahound , and great Termagaunt ' . Nor list I sonnet of my mistress ' face , To paint some Blowesse 2 with a ...
Page 229
... loue - fauours , their late whoredom's meed- while the pellucid spring of Pyrene is converted into a poisonous and muddy puddle , Whose infectious staine Corrupteth all the lowly fruitfull plaine " . Marlow's Ovid's Elegies , and some ...
... loue - fauours , their late whoredom's meed- while the pellucid spring of Pyrene is converted into a poisonous and muddy puddle , Whose infectious staine Corrupteth all the lowly fruitfull plaine " . Marlow's Ovid's Elegies , and some ...
Page 235
... loue's " decay . What needes me care for anie bookish skill , To blot white paper with my restlesse quill : To pore on painted leaues , or beate my braine With far - fetch'd thought : or to consvme in uaine In latter euen , or midst of ...
... loue's " decay . What needes me care for anie bookish skill , To blot white paper with my restlesse quill : To pore on painted leaues , or beate my braine With far - fetch'd thought : or to consvme in uaine In latter euen , or midst of ...
Page 236
... loue their life so deere : Where life is deere , who cares for coyned drosse ? That spent is counted gaine , and spared losse . He thus laughs at the quintessence of a sublimated mineral elixir . Each powdred graine ransometh captive ...
... loue their life so deere : Where life is deere , who cares for coyned drosse ? That spent is counted gaine , and spared losse . He thus laughs at the quintessence of a sublimated mineral elixir . Each powdred graine ransometh captive ...
Page 294
... loue . My passions were too great , For words t ' expresse my state , As to my paines I proue . Oft those that do deserue disdaine , For forging fancies get the best reward : Where I who feele what they do faine , For too much loue am ...
... loue . My passions were too great , For words t ' expresse my state , As to my paines I proue . Oft those that do deserue disdaine , For forging fancies get the best reward : Where I who feele what they do faine , For too much loue am ...
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