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... honor to the age in which we live . And , as a corollary , let me hope , if the position be cor- rect , that he who endeavours to promote it ; he , who as far as his abilities extend , strives to affix another link to the golden chain ...
... honor to the age in which we live . And , as a corollary , let me hope , if the position be cor- rect , that he who endeavours to promote it ; he , who as far as his abilities extend , strives to affix another link to the golden chain ...
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... honor of Navarre Was pledged for the repayment_it was there Your malice , Sir ! that cut the treaty off , And caused the land a deadly enemy . Then , -give me your patience , you have talked about it ; But a short season past , I framed ...
... honor of Navarre Was pledged for the repayment_it was there Your malice , Sir ! that cut the treaty off , And caused the land a deadly enemy . Then , -give me your patience , you have talked about it ; But a short season past , I framed ...
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... honor to you - let it pass . A few short moments to the world , and then The worm will have its portion - I my grave ! Yet had I trusted to have gone in peace From this bad world , and left an honest name To those who shall succeed me ...
... honor to you - let it pass . A few short moments to the world , and then The worm will have its portion - I my grave ! Yet had I trusted to have gone in peace From this bad world , and left an honest name To those who shall succeed me ...
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... honored you , And all my life reviewed too , will attest it . I have assuaged the indignation of The earl , but not inflamed . If I advised The pledge be unaccepted , which the king , Your sc . 1 . 11 THE HEIR OF FOIZ .
... honored you , And all my life reviewed too , will attest it . I have assuaged the indignation of The earl , but not inflamed . If I advised The pledge be unaccepted , which the king , Your sc . 1 . 11 THE HEIR OF FOIZ .
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... touches on My more than honored mother , and ' tis not The few grey hairs that wave upon thy brow , That shall protect thee from my vengeance ! Now Proceed . PHILIPPO . I but repeat the common voice of Fame- 12 ACT I. THE HEIR OF FOIZ .
... touches on My more than honored mother , and ' tis not The few grey hairs that wave upon thy brow , That shall protect thee from my vengeance ! Now Proceed . PHILIPPO . I but repeat the common voice of Fame- 12 ACT I. THE HEIR OF FOIZ .
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amid armes bastard brother bear Beaumont and Fletcher beautiful Ben Jonson beneath Bertrand blessed bliss bosom breast breath bright burgonet cast charnel house cheek cloud courser dark dead dear death Dost thou dream E'en earl earth Edwin evil fair faith fancy fate fear feel fell flower GASPARD GASTON Gerard grave hand hath heart Heaven HEIR OF FOIZ Holinshed honor hope horsse hour ISABEL king lady leaf life's light live look lord LUCINDA mandilion mark Navarre ne'er night noble NOTE o'er papal bull passed perchance PHILIPPO pilgrim radiant rose scene scorn Scornful Lady seemed sleep smile soft sooth sorrow soul sparkling speak spirit star stood storm sweet tears thee thine things thou art thought trembling twas Twere twill Vision of Delight voice weep wilt Wit without Money withered woodcock wretch
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Page 208 - It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Page 107 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Page 86 - In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind...
Page 231 - Break, Phant'sie, from thy cave of cloud, And spread thy purple wings ; Now all thy figures are allowed, And various shapes of things ; Create of airy forms a stream, It must have blood, and nought of phlegm; And though it be a waking dream, Cho. Yet let it like an odour rise To all the senses here, And fall like sleep upon their eyes, Or music in their ear.
Page 274 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be : In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours : I must go seek some dew-drops here, And...
Page 285 - The faery beam upon you, The stars to glister on you; A moon of light In the noon of night, Till the fire-drake hath o'ergone you! The wheel of fortune guide you, The boy with the bow beside you Run aye in the way Till the bird of day And the luckier lot betide you!
Page xiii - The Englishman in this quallitie is most vaine, indiscreete, and out of order : he first groundes his worke, on impossibilities : then in three bowers ronnes he throwe the worlde : marryes, gets children, makes children men, men to conquer kingdomes, murder' monsters, and bringeth Gods from Heaven, and fetcheth divels from Hel.
Page 97 - silently confess the crime." But after such time as Francis the French king, upon some dispute about breach of faith, had sent the lie unto the emperor Charles the Fifth, thereby to draw him to a personal combat, every petty companion in France, in imitation of their master, made the giving of the -lie mortality itself, holding it a matter of no small glory to have it said, That the meanest gentleman in France would not put up what the great emperor Charles the Fifth had patiently endured. From...
Page 214 - To be new framed, and fitted to her head, In honour of her courage : then the bird, With great applause, was to the market-place In triumph borne ; where, when her utmost worth Had been proclaim'd, the common executioner First by the king's command took off her crown...
Page 216 - This first stocke was full of rightwisnes, Trewe of his worde, sober, pitous and free, Clene of his goste and loved besinesse, Against the vice of slouth in honeste, And but his heire love vertue as did he, He is not gentill though he rich seme, All weare he miter, crowne or diademe.