The Life of Andrew Marvell, the Celebrated Patriot: With Extracts and Selections from His Prose and Poetical WorksSimpkin and Marshall, 1832 - 116 pages |
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... eyes . The merchant's clerk will not write like the lawyer or the poet . Even nations are distinguished by their writing : the vivacity and variableness of the Frenchman , and the delicacy and suppleness of the Italian , are perceptibly ...
... eyes . The merchant's clerk will not write like the lawyer or the poet . Even nations are distinguished by their writing : the vivacity and variableness of the Frenchman , and the delicacy and suppleness of the Italian , are perceptibly ...
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... eye , which way we ought to travell ; and Mrs. Oxenbridge has looked so well to him , that he hath al- ready much mended his complexion ; and now she is ordering his chamber , that he may delight to be in it as often as his studys ...
... eye , which way we ought to travell ; and Mrs. Oxenbridge has looked so well to him , that he hath al- ready much mended his complexion ; and now she is ordering his chamber , that he may delight to be in it as often as his studys ...
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... eyes , and brown hair , bowed to them with a cheerful smile , as they walked through into an inner apart- ment , but did not speak . These were the immortal John Milton , Latin Secretary to the Protector , and the scarcely less ...
... eyes , and brown hair , bowed to them with a cheerful smile , as they walked through into an inner apart- ment , but did not speak . These were the immortal John Milton , Latin Secretary to the Protector , and the scarcely less ...
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... eye , the mischief of the Excise ; for when the proposition was started for a longer continuance of that Bill , he prophetically added , " I wish it prove not too long . " It is impossible to avoid smiling at the difference of 14 ANDREW ...
... eye , the mischief of the Excise ; for when the proposition was started for a longer continuance of that Bill , he prophetically added , " I wish it prove not too long . " It is impossible to avoid smiling at the difference of 14 ANDREW ...
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... eye of the law , his Majesty is always present in all his courts , he cannot personally distribute justice . It is the regal office , and not the royal person , that is always present in court ; and from this ubiquity it follows , that ...
... eye of the law , his Majesty is always present in all his courts , he cannot personally distribute justice . It is the regal office , and not the royal person , that is always present in court ; and from this ubiquity it follows , that ...
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affectionate afterwards ANDREW MARVELL appears bill Bishop Bishop of Hereford Bishop of Oxford Captain Thompson character Charles Charles II Church Church of England clergy College conscience constituents Corporation of Hull Court crown Danby death desire divine Doctor of Divinity doth Dryden Duke duty EARL Ecclesiastical Polity England English esteem eyes father favour Flecnoe flow'rs GENTLEMEN give Growth of Popery hand-writing hath heaven HERBERT CROFT honour House of Commons House of Lords humble humour JOHN MILTON King King's land Lauderdale letter liberty living London Lord Danby LORD TREASURER Lordship Majesty Marvell's master ment Milton mind Naked Truth never occasion Oxenbridge Oxford Parker Parliament patriot person PLEASURE Poem Poet prelates present published Rehearsal Transprosed reign religion Rome says scarce sent servant soul spirit tears thine thing thou thought throne town virtue voted weep write
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Page 90 - 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 99 - 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-preserv'd 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 99 - But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart; For, Lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Page 98 - 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...
Page 92 - Thou tread'st upon enchanted ground ; Perils and snares beset thee round : Beware of all ; guard every part ; But most the traitor in thy heart. 5 Come, then, my soul ! now learn to wield The weight of thine immortal shield ; Put on the armor from above Of heavenly truth, and heavenly love.
Page 90 - Thus sung they, in the English boat, An holy and a cheerful note ; And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.
Page 100 - Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass; When Juliana came, and she What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.
Page 87 - But Sylvio soon had me beguiled: This waxed tame, while he grew wild, And quite regardless of my smart, Left me his Fawn, but took his Heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this, and very well content Could so mine idle life have spent.
Page 99 - twas born Round in itself incloses, And in its little globe's extent Frames as it can its native element; How it the purple flower does slight, Scarce touching where it lies, But gazing back upon the skies, Shines with a mournful light Like its own tear, Because so long divided from the sphere.
Page 86 - Else men are made their deodands. Though they should wash their guilty hands In this warm life-blood, which doth part From thine and wound me to the heart, Yet could they not be clean — their stain Is dyed in such a purple grain ; There is not such another in The world, to offer for their sin.