The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the Stuarts: Beginning with the Seventeenth Century, Being the Period of Settling the United States, Volume 2W. H. Colyer, 1845 - Great Britain |
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... hearts , and dance about a May - pole , or on a town green , under a shady elm . " No instance can be produced to prove the love of dancing so strong as " Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder - performed in a daunce from London to Norwich ...
... hearts , and dance about a May - pole , or on a town green , under a shady elm . " No instance can be produced to prove the love of dancing so strong as " Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder - performed in a daunce from London to Norwich ...
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... heart as merry ; Cheeks well fed , and sides well larded ; Every bone with fat well guarded : Meeting merry Kemp by chaunce Was Marian in his Morice daunce ; Her stump legs with bells were garnish't , Her browne browes with sweating ...
... heart as merry ; Cheeks well fed , and sides well larded ; Every bone with fat well guarded : Meeting merry Kemp by chaunce Was Marian in his Morice daunce ; Her stump legs with bells were garnish't , Her browne browes with sweating ...
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... heart ; " but when the heart is really touched , " The gilliflower , the rose is not so sweet , As sugar'd kisses are when lovers meet , " which shows there were kissing comfits to sweeten the breath , which are alluded to by Massinger ...
... heart ; " but when the heart is really touched , " The gilliflower , the rose is not so sweet , As sugar'd kisses are when lovers meet , " which shows there were kissing comfits to sweeten the breath , which are alluded to by Massinger ...
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... heart ; then irresistibly arises a correspondent feeling , which shows that " man is a pendulum vibrating between a smile and a tear , and it is woman that winds up the moving power , " or more poeti- cally , she can 66 -Rule like a ...
... heart ; then irresistibly arises a correspondent feeling , which shows that " man is a pendulum vibrating between a smile and a tear , and it is woman that winds up the moving power , " or more poeti- cally , she can 66 -Rule like a ...
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... heart . " 92 * One of these exquisite compositions is addressed to his friend , persuading him to marry : " When forty winters shall besiege thy brow , And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field , Thy youth's proud livery , so gazed on ...
... heart . " 92 * One of these exquisite compositions is addressed to his friend , persuading him to marry : " When forty winters shall besiege thy brow , And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field , Thy youth's proud livery , so gazed on ...
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Page 76 - An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands.
Page 109 - How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! now dying all away, Now pealing loud again and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on.
Page 233 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 9 - Then being asked where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say within thine own deep-sunken eyes Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer "This fair child of mine Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,' Proving his beauty by succession thine!
Page 295 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend ; This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 294 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 36 - Can Music's voice, can Beauty's eye, Can Painting's glowing hand supply, A charm so suited to my mind, As blows this hollow gust of wind, As drops this little weeping rill, Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray?
Page 55 - See the same man, in vigour, in the gout; Alone, in company ; in place, or out ; Early at business, and at hazard late ; Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a debate; Drunk at a borough, civil at a ball ; Friendly at Hackney, faithless at Whitehall...
Page 233 - Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour blaz'd. As blaz'd the nut, so may thy passion grow ; For 'twas thy nut that did so brightly glow.
Page 214 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.