The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 - English drama |
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... less ; Hold faft the pow'r , thy promise to increase . GLOO M. Denham . What time by torch - light they attempt the cave , Which at their entrance feemed in a fright , With the reflection that their armour gave , As it till then had ne ...
... less ; Hold faft the pow'r , thy promise to increase . GLOO M. Denham . What time by torch - light they attempt the cave , Which at their entrance feemed in a fright , With the reflection that their armour gave , As it till then had ne ...
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... less than foughten fields , or batter'd towns : More hard it is , and doth deferve more praise , To guide , than get ; to keep , than conquer crowns : E. of Sterline's Darius , Virtue did then mens hearts fo much inflame , That no ...
... less than foughten fields , or batter'd towns : More hard it is , and doth deferve more praise , To guide , than get ; to keep , than conquer crowns : E. of Sterline's Darius , Virtue did then mens hearts fo much inflame , That no ...
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... and noble acts as die , May come again to light ; at leaft defaced less , If from the Britain's firft antiquities they try : In great defects if they the truth supply , Then Then shall the readers fuller ftories find , And have 42 HIS.
... and noble acts as die , May come again to light ; at leaft defaced less , If from the Britain's firft antiquities they try : In great defects if they the truth supply , Then Then shall the readers fuller ftories find , And have 42 HIS.
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... less ambitious ; the fhrub Securely grows , the tallest tree ftands most In the wind : And thus we diftinguish the Noble from the bafe : The noble find their Lives and deaths ftill troublesome ; But humility doth fleep , whilft the ...
... less ambitious ; the fhrub Securely grows , the tallest tree ftands most In the wind : And thus we diftinguish the Noble from the bafe : The noble find their Lives and deaths ftill troublesome ; But humility doth fleep , whilft the ...
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... less than it . It is but reasonable to conclude That should be stronger ftill , which hurts , than that Which is hurt now , no wickedness is stronger Than what oppofeth it ; not fortune's felf , When the encounters virtue , but comes ...
... less than it . It is but reasonable to conclude That should be stronger ftill , which hurts , than that Which is hurt now , no wickedness is stronger Than what oppofeth it ; not fortune's felf , When the encounters virtue , but comes ...
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Atheist's Tragedy bafe Barons Wars Beaumont and Fletcher's becauſe beft beſt blood cauſe Chapman's Crown's Daniel's Davenant's Gondibert death defire doth Ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe fame fear feem fenfe fhall fhew fhould fince fire firft firſt flaves fleep fome foon foul ftand ftate ftill fubjects fuch fure fweet give greateſt greatneſs hath heart heav'n himſelf honour Ibid itſelf Johnson's juft juftice kifs kings laft lefs live loft Lord Brooke's Love's Lover's Melancholy luft marriage mifery mind Mirror for Magiftrates moft moſt muft muſt nature ne'er never night o'er ourſelves paffion pleaſe pleaſure poor pow'r praiſe princes Queen of Corinth reafon reft Revenger's Tragedy rife Sejanus Shakespear's Shakespear's Hamlet ſhall ſhe Shirley's Siege of Rhodes ſtand ſtate ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou unto uſe virtue Whilft whofe Whoſe wife
Popular passages
Page 170 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Page 19 - To the tent-royal of their ( emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.
Page 164 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 109 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 276 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Page 76 - Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt ; For she had eyes, and chose me. No, lago ; I'll see before I doubt ; when I doubt, prove ; And on the proof, there is no more but this, — Away at once with love or jealousy ! lago.
Page 236 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Page 73 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 149 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 276 - For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.