The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5J. Johnson, 1810 - 766 pages |
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... keep his loathsome cabin still ; Beauty hath nought to do with such foul fiends . Come not within his danger by thy will ; They that thrive well , take counsel of their friends . When thou did'st name the boar , not to dissemble , I ...
... keep his loathsome cabin still ; Beauty hath nought to do with such foul fiends . Come not within his danger by thy will ; They that thrive well , take counsel of their friends . When thou did'st name the boar , not to dissemble , I ...
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... keep with thy hounds . " And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare , Mark the poor wretch to overshut his troubles , How he out - runs the wind , and with what care He cranks and crosses , with a thousand doubles : The many musits ...
... keep with thy hounds . " And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare , Mark the poor wretch to overshut his troubles , How he out - runs the wind , and with what care He cranks and crosses , with a thousand doubles : The many musits ...
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... keep unknown From thievish ears , because it is his own ? Thy hasty spring still blasts , and ne'er grows old ! When at Collatium this false lord arriv'd , Well was he welcom'd by the Roman dame , Within whose face beauty and virtue ...
... keep unknown From thievish ears , because it is his own ? Thy hasty spring still blasts , and ne'er grows old ! When at Collatium this false lord arriv'd , Well was he welcom'd by the Roman dame , Within whose face beauty and virtue ...
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... keep him from heart - easing words so long , Begins to talk : but through his lips do throng Weak words , so thick come in his poor heart's aid , That no man could distinguish what he said . Yet sometime Tarquin was pronounced plain ...
... keep him from heart - easing words so long , Begins to talk : but through his lips do throng Weak words , so thick come in his poor heart's aid , That no man could distinguish what he said . Yet sometime Tarquin was pronounced plain ...
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... keep , By children's eyes , her husband's shape in mind . Look , what an unthrift in the world doth spend , Shifts but his place , for still the world enjoys it ; But beauty's waste hath in the world an end , And kept unus'd , the user ...
... keep , By children's eyes , her husband's shape in mind . Look , what an unthrift in the world doth spend , Shifts but his place , for still the world enjoys it ; But beauty's waste hath in the world an end , And kept unus'd , the user ...
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Page 65 - Take, oh, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, bring again ; Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, seal'd in vain.
Page 71 - UNDER the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither ; Here shall he see No enemy, But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun, And loves to live i...
Page 46 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 63 - Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together ; Youth is full of pleasance, Age is full of care: Youth like summer morn, Age like winter weather ; Youth like summer brave, Age like winter bare. Youth is full of sport, Age's breath is short, Youth is nimble, age is lame : Youth is hot and bold, Age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild, and age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee, Youth, I do adore thee ; O, my love, my love is young ! Age, I do defy thee ; O sweet shepherd, hie thee, For methinks thou stay'st...
Page 56 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 514 - 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. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee As giving it a hope that there It could not withered be; But thou thereon didst only breathe And sent'st it back to me; Since when it grows, and smells, I swear, Not of itself but thee!
Page 55 - FROM you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell...
Page 50 - Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire ? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require. Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu ; Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may be, or your affairs suppose, But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought Save, where you are how...
Page 70 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 50 - Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but...