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... that wretched Poet , Richard Flecnoe , who , as Dryden expresses it ,“ In prose and verse was owned without dispute , Through all the realms of nonsense , absolute . ” This Poem suggested one of the best and severest Satires in the ...
... that wretched Poet , Richard Flecnoe , who , as Dryden expresses it ,“ In prose and verse was owned without dispute , Through all the realms of nonsense , absolute . ” This Poem suggested one of the best and severest Satires in the ...
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Page 57 - Deserts of vast Eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long preserved virginity: And your quaint honour turn to dust; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.
Page 52 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet And throws the melons at our feet; But apples, plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice. With cedars chosen by His hand From Lebanon He stores the land; And makes the hollow seas that roar Proclaim the ambergris on shore.
Page 56 - Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Page 52 - And sends the fowls to us in care, On daily visits through the air ; He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night...
Page 56 - TO HIS COY MISTRESS Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side 5 Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain.
Page 56 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Page 56 - When Juliana came, and she, What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.
Page 58 - And by ill imitating would excel) Might hence presume the whole Creation's day To change in Scenes, and show it in a Play.
Page 57 - Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.
Page 55 - See how the Orient Dew, Shed from the Bosom of the Morn Into the blowing Roses, Yet careless of its Mansion new; For the clear Region where 'twas born Round in its self incloses: And in its little Globes Extent, Frames as it can its native Element.
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| Title | The Life of Andrew Marvell The life of Andrew Marvel, Hartley Coleridge |
| Author | Hartley Coleridge |
| Publisher | A.D. English, 1835 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 64 pages |
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