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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... earth , Now the King drinks to Hamlet . Shakespear's Hamlet . 1. Give way , make place ; room for the conful . 2. Hail ! Hail , great Sejanus ! 1. Hail , my honour'd lord ! 3. We fhall be mark'd anon , for our not - hail , 4. That is ...
... earth , Now the King drinks to Hamlet . Shakespear's Hamlet . 1. Give way , make place ; room for the conful . 2. Hail ! Hail , great Sejanus ! 1. Hail , my honour'd lord ! 3. We fhall be mark'd anon , for our not - hail , 4. That is ...
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... earth ; and women that caft their eyes Upon kings , may place their hearts upon vaffals . Lilly's Alexander and Campafpe . Affection is the favage beaft , Which always us annoyeth : And never lets us live in reft , But ftill our good ...
... earth ; and women that caft their eyes Upon kings , may place their hearts upon vaffals . Lilly's Alexander and Campafpe . Affection is the favage beaft , Which always us annoyeth : And never lets us live in reft , But ftill our good ...
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... earth , That moves not upwards , nor by princely deeds Doth mean to foar above the highest fort . Marlo's First Part of Tamburlaine the Great . Ambition hath but two fteps ; the lowest , Blood ; the highest envy : Both these hath my ...
... earth , That moves not upwards , nor by princely deeds Doth mean to foar above the highest fort . Marlo's First Part of Tamburlaine the Great . Ambition hath but two fteps ; the lowest , Blood ; the highest envy : Both these hath my ...
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... earth Break out in hideous earthquakes ; paffions fo Encrease by oppofition of all fcorns . I. Glapthorne's Hollander . She Plays with his rage , and gets above his anger ; As you have feen a little boat to mount and dance , Upon the ...
... earth Break out in hideous earthquakes ; paffions fo Encrease by oppofition of all fcorns . I. Glapthorne's Hollander . She Plays with his rage , and gets above his anger ; As you have feen a little boat to mount and dance , Upon the ...
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... earth . Chapman's First Part of Byron's Confpiracy . ARCHER S. Our English of their strings more care did take , Whose winged pursuivants death's meffage bear : Some through love's feat , the liver , passage make , As if our archers had ...
... earth . Chapman's First Part of Byron's Confpiracy . ARCHER S. Our English of their strings more care did take , Whose winged pursuivants death's meffage bear : Some through love's feat , the liver , passage make , As if our archers had ...
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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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