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... bright , Was the spirit of Heaven's Guard o'er the water borne , With mighty speed . Bade the Angel - maker , ( The Life - dispenser ) light : o come forth O'er the wide abyss . Quick was fulfill d The high King's hest - round him was ...
... bright , Was the spirit of Heaven's Guard o'er the water borne , With mighty speed . Bade the Angel - maker , ( The Life - dispenser ) light : o come forth O'er the wide abyss . Quick was fulfill d The high King's hest - round him was ...
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... bright of hue , The dances short , long tales of great delight ; With words and looks that tigers could but rue , When each of us did plead the other's right . The palm play , ' where dèsported for the game , With dazed eyes oft we , by ...
... bright of hue , The dances short , long tales of great delight ; With words and looks that tigers could but rue , When each of us did plead the other's right . The palm play , ' where dèsported for the game , With dazed eyes oft we , by ...
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... bright ; It was a hevy syght to se Bryght swordes on basnites 25 lyght . Thorowe ryche male , and myne - ye - ple Many sterne the stroke downe streight : Many a freyke 26 that was full free , That undar foot dyd lyght . At last the ...
... bright ; It was a hevy syght to se Bryght swordes on basnites 25 lyght . Thorowe ryche male , and myne - ye - ple Many sterne the stroke downe streight : Many a freyke 26 that was full free , That undar foot dyd lyght . At last the ...
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... bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish speres All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Tivydale , Fast by the river Tweede : " " O , cease your sports , " Erle Percy said , " And take your bowes with speede : And now with me , my ...
... bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish speres All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Tivydale , Fast by the river Tweede : " " O , cease your sports , " Erle Percy said , " And take your bowes with speede : And now with me , my ...
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... bright : And now sharp blows , a heavy shower , On shields and helmets light . ] They closed full fast on everye side , Noe slacknes there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground . O Christ ! it was a griefe ...
... bright : And now sharp blows , a heavy shower , On shields and helmets light . ] They closed full fast on everye side , Noe slacknes there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground . O Christ ! it was a griefe ...
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Page 110 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye ; I feel my heart new open'd : O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Page 8 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.
Page 106 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 89 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 116 - Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 111 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
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| Title | Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English Writers, and Arranged Chronologically Student's specimens of English literature |
| Authors | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith |
| Editors | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin |
| Compiled by | Thomas Budd Shaw |
| Publisher | Sheldon, 1869 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 29 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 477 pages |
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