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Emile Legouis. and English : " Alas ! my fine gallant , great lover of notorious Pamphilus , consider the end w time or other waits for thee , and all thos woman and the whole sect of feminists [ o I shall then be content to appeal to ...
Emile Legouis. and English : " Alas ! my fine gallant , great lover of notorious Pamphilus , consider the end w time or other waits for thee , and all thos woman and the whole sect of feminists [ o I shall then be content to appeal to ...
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... lover of poetry : " Such folly it is not to regard aforehand the inclination and quality of him to whom we dedicate our Books . Such might I happily incur entituling my Slumber and the other pamphlets unto his Honour ( i.e. Leicester ) ...
... lover of poetry : " Such folly it is not to regard aforehand the inclination and quality of him to whom we dedicate our Books . Such might I happily incur entituling my Slumber and the other pamphlets unto his Honour ( i.e. Leicester ) ...
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... lover's en ward aspirations . He also feels justifieċ following his natural bent , the promptin genius - that is to say , he revels in gorge of all the beautiful forms and colou enchanted his eyes in the pageant of lif This borrowed ...
... lover's en ward aspirations . He also feels justifieċ following his natural bent , the promptin genius - that is to say , he revels in gorge of all the beautiful forms and colou enchanted his eyes in the pageant of lif This borrowed ...
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... lovers . He event- ually exposes himself to the censure of sour judges like Lord Burleigh , by Magnifying lovers ' dear debates By which frail youth is oft to folly led . He comes nigh to deserving the puritanical reproach of writing ...
... lovers . He event- ually exposes himself to the censure of sour judges like Lord Burleigh , by Magnifying lovers ' dear debates By which frail youth is oft to folly led . He comes nigh to deserving the puritanical reproach of writing ...
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... lover of Elizabeth Boyle ma and Epithalamion echo the alternate feeli joy that were stirred in his heart by th insensibility , and then by her consent- beginning to end being full of chaste hu Then came in his last years the two He ...
... lover of Elizabeth Boyle ma and Epithalamion echo the alternate feeli joy that were stirred in his heart by th insensibility , and then by her consent- beginning to end being full of chaste hu Then came in his last years the two He ...
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Page 41 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth; Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not: Oh!
Page 80 - Unless she do him by the forelock take ; Bid her therefore herself soon ready make, To wait on Love amongst his lovely crew ; Where every one, that misseth then her make, Shall be by him amerced with penance due.
Page 82 - One day I wrote her name upon the strand; But came the waves, and washed it away: Again, I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalize; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wiped out likewise.
Page 39 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight; For of the soul the body form doth take; For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 116 - A little lowly hermitage it was, Down in a dale, hard by a forest's side, Far from resort of people, that did pass In travel to and fro : a little wide There was...
Page 87 - gin to shrill aloud Their merry music that resounds from far, The pipe, the tabor, and the trembling croud, That well agree withouten breach or jar. But most of all, the...
Page 91 - Doe burne, that to us wretched earthly clods In dreadful darknesse lend desired light: And all ye powers which in the same remayne, More then we men can fayne!
Page 68 - In which I have followed all the antique poets historical : first Homer, who in the persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governor and a virtuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis...
Page 88 - Tell me, ye merchants' daughters, did ye see So fair a creature in your town before...
Page 88 - Almighty's view. Of her, ye virgins,. learn obedience, When so ye come into those holy places, To humble your proud faces. Bring her up to th...