Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, with a Biography of Each Poet, &c, Volume 3H. Washbourne, 1845 |
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Page 12
... poor wretch , Into this unhappy error ; Which to plague , no tyrant's mind Pain can find Like my heart's self - guilty terror . Then , O then ! let that suffice , Your dear eyes Need not , need not more afflict me ; Nor your sweet ...
... poor wretch , Into this unhappy error ; Which to plague , no tyrant's mind Pain can find Like my heart's self - guilty terror . Then , O then ! let that suffice , Your dear eyes Need not , need not more afflict me ; Nor your sweet ...
Page 57
... poor fools that long to prove . " Tell me more , are women true ? " Yes , some are , and some as you . Some are willing , some are strange , Since you men first taught to change ; And , till troth Be in both , All shall love , to love ...
... poor fools that long to prove . " Tell me more , are women true ? " Yes , some are , and some as you . Some are willing , some are strange , Since you men first taught to change ; And , till troth Be in both , All shall love , to love ...
Page 59
... other joys imply ? — A golden gyve , a pleasing wrong.- To be your own but one poor month , I'd give My youth , my fortune , and then leave to live . FRANCIS BEAUMONT . A CHARM . [ From his " BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER . 59.
... other joys imply ? — A golden gyve , a pleasing wrong.- To be your own but one poor month , I'd give My youth , my fortune , and then leave to live . FRANCIS BEAUMONT . A CHARM . [ From his " BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER . 59.
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... poor man ; the Nimrod fierce is Death ; His speedy greyhounds are Lust , sickness , envy , care , Strife , that ne'er falls amiss , With all those ills which haunt us while we breathe . Now , if by chance we fly Of these the eager chase ...
... poor man ; the Nimrod fierce is Death ; His speedy greyhounds are Lust , sickness , envy , care , Strife , that ne'er falls amiss , With all those ills which haunt us while we breathe . Now , if by chance we fly Of these the eager chase ...
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... poor thought of her would arm me as Circe could not harm me . Since , beside those excellences Wherewith others please the senses , She , whom I have prized so , Yields delights for reason too . Who could doat on things so common As ...
... poor thought of her would arm me as Circe could not harm me . Since , beside those excellences Wherewith others please the senses , She , whom I have prized so , Yields delights for reason too . Who could doat on things so common As ...
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