Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English Writers, and Arranged Chronologically |
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... Love were young , And truth on every Shepherd's tongue , These pleasures might my passion move To live with thee , and be thy love . But fading flowers in every field , To winter floods 80 ' HAP . IV SIR WALTER RALEIGH .
... Love were young , And truth on every Shepherd's tongue , These pleasures might my passion move To live with thee , and be thy love . But fading flowers in every field , To winter floods 80 ' HAP . IV SIR WALTER RALEIGH .
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... truth shall be thy warrant . Go , since I needs must die , And give them all the lie . Go , tell the Court it glows , And shines like painted wood ; Go , tell the Church it shows What's good , but does no good . If Court and Church ...
... truth shall be thy warrant . Go , since I needs must die , And give them all the lie . Go , tell the Court it glows , And shines like painted wood ; Go , tell the Church it shows What's good , but does no good . If Court and Church ...
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... truth ; for to say that blind custom of obedience should be a safer obligation than duty , taught and understood , is to say that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a man with his eyes open can by a light . And , doubtless ...
... truth ; for to say that blind custom of obedience should be a safer obligation than duty , taught and understood , is to say that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a man with his eyes open can by a light . And , doubtless ...
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... * * * * * * Cromwell , I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman . Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me 114 CHAP . VIL SHAKSPEARE . Wolsey and Cromwell.
... * * * * * * Cromwell , I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman . Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me 114 CHAP . VIL SHAKSPEARE . Wolsey and Cromwell.
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... truth's ; then if thou fall'st , O Cromwell , Thou tall'st a blessed martyr . Serve the king ; And- - Prithee , lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have , To the last penny ; ' tis the king's : my robe , And my integrity to ...
... truth's ; then if thou fall'st , O Cromwell , Thou tall'st a blessed martyr . Serve the king ; And- - Prithee , lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have , To the last penny ; ' tis the king's : my robe , And my integrity to ...
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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 5 - There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again ; And all went merry as a marriage-bell, But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Page 12 - 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 6 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!
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...