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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... She is of the best blood , yet betters it With all the graces of an excellent spirit : Mild as the infant rose , and innocent As when heav'n lent her us . Her mind , as well As face , is yet a paradice untainted With blemishes B 5 As ...
... She is of the best blood , yet betters it With all the graces of an excellent spirit : Mild as the infant rose , and innocent As when heav'n lent her us . Her mind , as well As face , is yet a paradice untainted With blemishes B 5 As ...
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... she did here , by great example , well T'inlive pofterity , her fame may tell . And calling truth to witness , make that good From the inherent graces in her blood . Johnson . ADOP- ADOPTION . " Tis often feen , Adoption strives with 14 ...
... she did here , by great example , well T'inlive pofterity , her fame may tell . And calling truth to witness , make that good From the inherent graces in her blood . Johnson . ADOP- ADOPTION . " Tis often feen , Adoption strives with 14 ...
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... She much the more expofeth them to fhime , Not able to make good , and fill their bases With a conformed ftructure . Chapman's First Part of Biron's Confpiracy . Advancement now doth not attend desert , But flows from fancies of a ...
... She much the more expofeth them to fhime , Not able to make good , and fill their bases With a conformed ftructure . Chapman's First Part of Biron's Confpiracy . Advancement now doth not attend desert , But flows from fancies of a ...
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... she aims at , Nor all the feathers in the fryars . i . Then take a widow , A good stanch widow , that's tythe . 2. And begin a new order , Live in a dead man's monument ; not I , fir , I'll keep mine own road ; a true mendicant ; What ...
... she aims at , Nor all the feathers in the fryars . i . Then take a widow , A good stanch widow , that's tythe . 2. And begin a new order , Live in a dead man's monument ; not I , fir , I'll keep mine own road ; a true mendicant ; What ...
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... she's yok'd . That restless ill that ftill doth build Upon fuccefs ; and ends not in aspiring ; But there begins , and ne'er is fill'd While aught remains that feems but worth defiring . Wherein the thought , ( unlike the eye , To which ...
... she's yok'd . That restless ill that ftill doth build Upon fuccefs ; and ends not in aspiring ; But there begins , and ne'er is fill'd While aught remains that feems but worth defiring . Wherein the thought , ( unlike the eye , To which ...
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The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ... William Oldys,Thomas Hayward No preview available - 2016 |
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againſt Aleyn's Henry VII Antonio and Mellida Beaumont and Fletcher's beauty becauſe beft beſt Caligula Catiline caufe cauſe Chapman's court Crown's cuckold Cymbeline Cynthia's Revels Daniel's death defire doth Ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe fair falfe fame fcorn fear feem fenfe fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome foon fortune foul fpirit friendſhip ftand ftill ftrong fubject fuch fure fweet Gondibert greateſt hath heart heav'n Henry VII himſelf honeft honour itſelf Johnson's King Henry VI lefs Lord Brook's Middleton's mind Mirror for Magiftrates moft moſt muft muſt never ourſelves Philotas Platonick Lovers pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe prince reafon reft Revenger's Tragedy ſeem Sejanus Shakespear's Shakespear's King ſhall ſhe Shirley's ſpeak Spenfer's Fairy Queen ſtate Sterline's ſtill ſweet Tamburlaine thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou Trag Tragedy truft unto uſe virtue Whilft whofe whoſe wife