The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 - English poetry |
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... rest , Not of the last edition , but the best . He must have language , travel , all the arts ; Judgment to ufe , or else he wants thy parts : He must have friends the higheft , able to do , Such as Mecænas , and Augustus too : He must ...
... rest , Not of the last edition , but the best . He must have language , travel , all the arts ; Judgment to ufe , or else he wants thy parts : He must have friends the higheft , able to do , Such as Mecænas , and Augustus too : He must ...
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... rest . What at thou loft ? O ignorant man ! M. I knew All this and only therefore I withdrew . To know and feel all this , and not to have Words to exprefs it , makes a man a grave Of his own thoughts : I would not therefore stay At a ...
... rest . What at thou loft ? O ignorant man ! M. I knew All this and only therefore I withdrew . To know and feel all this , and not to have Words to exprefs it , makes a man a grave Of his own thoughts : I would not therefore stay At a ...
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... Rest of their bones , and foul's delivery . Thou'rt flave to fate , chance , kings , and despe And doft with poison , war , and sickness , dwell , And poppy or charms can make us fleep as well , And better than thy ftroke . Why fwell'ft ...
... Rest of their bones , and foul's delivery . Thou'rt flave to fate , chance , kings , and despe And doft with poison , war , and sickness , dwell , And poppy or charms can make us fleep as well , And better than thy ftroke . Why fwell'ft ...
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... rest . Here upon earth were kings , and none but we Can be fuch kings , nor of such subjects be . Who is fo fafe as we ? where none can do Treafon to us , except one of us two . True and falfe fears let us refrain : Let us love nobly ...
... rest . Here upon earth were kings , and none but we Can be fuch kings , nor of such subjects be . Who is fo fafe as we ? where none can do Treafon to us , except one of us two . True and falfe fears let us refrain : Let us love nobly ...
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... rest . As lightning or a taper's light , Thine eyes , and not thy noife , wak'd me ; Yet I thought thee ( For thou lov'ft truth ) an angel at first fight ; But when I faw thou faw'ft my heart , And knew'ft my thoughts beyond an angel's ...
... rest . As lightning or a taper's light , Thine eyes , and not thy noife , wak'd me ; Yet I thought thee ( For thou lov'ft truth ) an angel at first fight ; But when I faw thou faw'ft my heart , And knew'ft my thoughts beyond an angel's ...
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Page 537 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 536 - While we can, the sports of love. Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again: But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night.
Page 590 - IF I freely may discover What would please me in my lover, I would have her fair and witty, Savouring more of court than city ; A little proud, but full of pity ; Light and humorous in her toying ; Oft...
Page 533 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 33 - When my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain (For graves have learned that womanhead To be to more than one a bed), And he that digs it spies A bracelet of bright hair about the bone...
Page 543 - No, Both wills were in one stature ; And as that wisdom had decreed, The Word was now made Flesh indeed, And took on him our nature. What comfort by Him do we win, Who made Himself the price of sin, To make us heirs of Glory ! To see this babe, all innocence, A martyr born in our defence : Can man forget this...
Page 590 - Though I am young and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet, I have heard they both bear darts, And both do aim at human hearts : And then again, I have been told, Love wounds with heat, as Death with cold ; So that I fear they do but bring Extremes to touch, and mean one thing. As in a ruin we it call One thing to be blown up or fall ; Or to our end, like way may have By...
Page 30 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 23 - Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys and sour prentices; Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride, Call country ants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Page 518 - Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father, now! For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace; and, asked, say: Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry...