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Page xxiii
... Soul , which originally appeared in 1647 , consisting of twenty - four cantos . The author died at a very advanced age in 1699 ; and a second edition of Psyche , with corrections throughout , and four new cantos , was published in 1702 ...
... Soul , which originally appeared in 1647 , consisting of twenty - four cantos . The author died at a very advanced age in 1699 ; and a second edition of Psyche , with corrections throughout , and four new cantos , was published in 1702 ...
Page liv
... soul , to thy eternal birth ! And press hisk body lightly , gentle earth ! " The text of this " sonnet " is , I apprehend , somewhat corrupted : those only who are accustomed to collate manuscripts are fully aware how poetry suffers by ...
... soul , to thy eternal birth ! And press hisk body lightly , gentle earth ! " The text of this " sonnet " is , I apprehend , somewhat corrupted : those only who are accustomed to collate manuscripts are fully aware how poetry suffers by ...
Page xcii
... souls ] ” So the passage has been amended by me ; and the correction is certain . A critic , however , in Churton's Lit. Register for April , 1845 , ( proposing to read " had she so tempting fairness " , & c . ) laughs at my adducing ...
... souls ] ” So the passage has been amended by me ; and the correction is certain . A critic , however , in Churton's Lit. Register for April , 1845 , ( proposing to read " had she so tempting fairness " , & c . ) laughs at my adducing ...
Page iii
... soul miraculously knowing and conversing with all mankind , enabling him to express not only the phlegm and folly of thick - skinned men , but the strength and maturity of the wise , the air and insinuations of the court , the ...
... soul miraculously knowing and conversing with all mankind , enabling him to express not only the phlegm and folly of thick - skinned men , but the strength and maturity of the wise , the air and insinuations of the court , the ...
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... souls for another passion ; peruse a scene of manly rage , and you would swear they cannot be expressed by the same hands ; but both are so excellently a was ] Old ed . " were . " b landscrap b Altered by the modern editors to ...
... souls for another passion ; peruse a scene of manly rage , and you would swear they cannot be expressed by the same hands ; but both are so excellently a was ] Old ed . " were . " b landscrap b Altered by the modern editors to ...
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Page l - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 358 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Page li - Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to make the two next companies Right witty...
Page lxxxv - The fair-eyed maids shall weep our banishments, And in their songs curse ever-blinded Fortune, Till she for shame see what a wrong she has done To youth and nature. This is all our world: We shall know nothing here, but one another; Hear nothing, but the clock that tells our woes. The vine shall grow, but we shall never see it : Summer shall come, and with her all delights, But dead-cold winter must inhabit here still.
Page 165 - Tis of all sleeps the sweetest ; Children begin it to us, strong men seek it, And kings from height of all their painted glories Fall like spent exhalations to this centre : And those are fools that fear it...
Page 235 - Oh, they are two twinn'd cherries dy'd in blushes Which those fair suns above with their bright beams Reflect upon and ripen ! Sweetest beauty, Bow down those branches, that the longing taste Of the faint looker-on may meet those blessings, And taste and live.
Page 303 - Cap. Go thy ways, thou art the king of courtesy ! Fall off again, my sweet youths. Come, And every man trace to his house again, And hang his pewter up ; then to the tavern, And bring your wives in muffs.