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... passed through so many editions must have been popularly read , and as generally enjoyed . ― There are many other works of Chaucer . Among the best are , a Translation into English of the Romance of the Rose , originally composed in ...
... passed through so many editions must have been popularly read , and as generally enjoyed . ― There are many other works of Chaucer . Among the best are , a Translation into English of the Romance of the Rose , originally composed in ...
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... passed over in silence : - : - From Tuscane came my Ladies worthy race , Faire Florence was sometime her auncient seate : The Western Yle whose pleasant shore doth face Wild Cambers clifs , did geve her lyuely heate : Fostered she was ...
... passed over in silence : - : - From Tuscane came my Ladies worthy race , Faire Florence was sometime her auncient seate : The Western Yle whose pleasant shore doth face Wild Cambers clifs , did geve her lyuely heate : Fostered she was ...
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... passed it wholly in silence would have appeared strange , in speaking of those celebrated in its annals ; and with this brief allusion to its rise , I will pass to the consideration of our more immediate subject , without again ...
... passed it wholly in silence would have appeared strange , in speaking of those celebrated in its annals ; and with this brief allusion to its rise , I will pass to the consideration of our more immediate subject , without again ...
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... passed away ) excites little interest and less admiration . JOSHUA SILVESTER , the translator of Du Bartas ' Divine Weeks and Works , acquired in his day a popularity which has not triumphantly stood the test of time . His puritanical ...
... passed away ) excites little interest and less admiration . JOSHUA SILVESTER , the translator of Du Bartas ' Divine Weeks and Works , acquired in his day a popularity which has not triumphantly stood the test of time . His puritanical ...
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... passed this way . O yes , o yes , o yes , If there be any man , In town or country , can Bring me my heart again , I'll please him for his pain ; And by these marks I will you shew , That only I this heart do owe . It is a wounded heart ...
... passed this way . O yes , o yes , o yes , If there be any man , In town or country , can Bring me my heart again , I'll please him for his pain ; And by these marks I will you shew , That only I this heart do owe . It is a wounded heart ...
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Page 38 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did...
Page 71 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By...
Page 99 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west; behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Page 101 - Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 77 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 39 - They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you ; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
Page 103 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 77 - Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay. Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes...
Page 101 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Page 103 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.