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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... fear and silence . I cannot but conceive him calm and confident , little disappointed , not at all dejected , relying on his own merit with steady conscious- ness , and waiting without impatience the vicissitudes of opinion , and the ...
... fear and silence . I cannot but conceive him calm and confident , little disappointed , not at all dejected , relying on his own merit with steady conscious- ness , and waiting without impatience the vicissitudes of opinion , and the ...
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... fear to have divulged , yet seeing it possible in writing to assured friends , a man may give his pen some liberty , for the times are somewhat criticall ; be- side that , I am naturally , and now more so by my age , inclined to keep my ...
... fear to have divulged , yet seeing it possible in writing to assured friends , a man may give his pen some liberty , for the times are somewhat criticall ; be- side that , I am naturally , and now more so by my age , inclined to keep my ...
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... fears are oddly contrasted with his self - import- ance : " If he chance but to sneeze , he prays that the foundations of the earth be not shaken . Ever since he crept up to be but the weathercock of a steeple , he trem- bles and creaks ...
... fears are oddly contrasted with his self - import- ance : " If he chance but to sneeze , he prays that the foundations of the earth be not shaken . Ever since he crept up to be but the weathercock of a steeple , he trem- bles and creaks ...
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... fear it ; for I promise you faithfully , whatever you give me I will always want ; and although in other things my word may be thought a slender authority , yet in that , you may rely on me , I will never break it . " " MY LORDS AND ...
... fear it ; for I promise you faithfully , whatever you give me I will always want ; and although in other things my word may be thought a slender authority , yet in that , you may rely on me , I will never break it . " " MY LORDS AND ...
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... fear . He , like the sacred Hebrew leader , stood The people's surest guide , and prophet too . Athens may boast her virtuous Socrates , The chief amongst the Greeks for moral good , And Rome her orator , whose fam'd harangues Foil'd ...
... fear . He , like the sacred Hebrew leader , stood The people's surest guide , and prophet too . Athens may boast her virtuous Socrates , The chief amongst the Greeks for moral good , And Rome her orator , whose fam'd harangues Foil'd ...
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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.