Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English Writers, and Arranged Chronologically |
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... youth in goodlihead , That for rudeness to speak thereof I dread . In her was youth , beauty with humble port , Bounty , richess , and womanly feature : ( God better wote than my pen can report ) Wisdom largèss , estate and cunning sure ...
... youth in goodlihead , That for rudeness to speak thereof I dread . In her was youth , beauty with humble port , Bounty , richess , and womanly feature : ( God better wote than my pen can report ) Wisdom largèss , estate and cunning sure ...
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... youth , Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length . The secret groves , which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint , and of our ladies praise ; Recording soft what grace each one had found , What hope of speed , what dread of long ...
... youth , Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length . The secret groves , which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint , and of our ladies praise ; Recording soft what grace each one had found , What hope of speed , what dread of long ...
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... youth is fled with strength , And how old age is well begun ; The which I feel , and you may see Such lines upon my head to be . They be the strings of sober sound , Whose music is harmonical ; Their tunes declare a time from ground I ...
... youth is fled with strength , And how old age is well begun ; The which I feel , and you may see Such lines upon my head to be . They be the strings of sober sound , Whose music is harmonical ; Their tunes declare a time from ground I ...
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... Youth last , could Love still breed ; Had joys no date , had Age no need ; Then those delights my mind might move To live with thee , and be thy love . THE SOUL'S ERRAND . This beautiful poem appeared anonymously in " Davison's Poetical ...
... Youth last , could Love still breed ; Had joys no date , had Age no need ; Then those delights my mind might move To live with thee , and be thy love . THE SOUL'S ERRAND . This beautiful poem appeared anonymously in " Davison's Poetical ...
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... youth did gain In the dark hidden virtuous use of herbs . That will I practise , and as freely give All my endeavors , as I gained them free . Of all green wounds I know the remedies In men or cattle , be they stung with snakes , Or ...
... youth did gain In the dark hidden virtuous use of herbs . That will I practise , and as freely give All my endeavors , as I gained them free . Of all green wounds I know the remedies In men or cattle , be they stung with snakes , Or ...
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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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