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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Page 46
... Faith , chufing of a wench in a huge farthingale , Is like the buying of ware under a great pent - house : What with the deceit of the one , And the false light of th ' other , mark my speeches , He may have a difeas'd wench in his bed ...
... Faith , chufing of a wench in a huge farthingale , Is like the buying of ware under a great pent - house : What with the deceit of the one , And the false light of th ' other , mark my speeches , He may have a difeas'd wench in his bed ...
Page 50
... faith , Nor have the mightieft arguments most faith . For arguments , like children , fhould be like The fubject , that begets them . Drayton . Thomas Dekker's Satiromafix . Be calm in arguing : For fierceness makes Error a fault , and ...
... faith , Nor have the mightieft arguments most faith . For arguments , like children , fhould be like The fubject , that begets them . Drayton . Thomas Dekker's Satiromafix . Be calm in arguing : For fierceness makes Error a fault , and ...
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... faith with fears , yet hopes was mix'd , Like to those ftars which tremble , yet are fix'd . Aleyn's Henry VII . The eager armies meet to try their cause , Our English lords in four Battalias Bring on their forces ; but fo furious grows ...
... faith with fears , yet hopes was mix'd , Like to those ftars which tremble , yet are fix'd . Aleyn's Henry VII . The eager armies meet to try their cause , Our English lords in four Battalias Bring on their forces ; but fo furious grows ...
Page 96
... faith so bought , fo fold . When I go to hell , I Johnfon's Catiline . Marfion's Sophonisba . mean to carry a bribe : for look ye , Good gifts evermore make way for the worst perfons . ' Tis gold must fuch an inftrument procure ...
... faith so bought , fo fold . When I go to hell , I Johnfon's Catiline . Marfion's Sophonisba . mean to carry a bribe : for look ye , Good gifts evermore make way for the worst perfons . ' Tis gold must fuch an inftrument procure ...
Page 126
... ; Then master of a fhop ; then one of th'inqueft ; Then breaks out bankrupt , or starts alde : man : The original of both is a church - porch . 2. Of lome , my colonel . 1. Good 1. Good faith , of moft O ' your fhop 126 CIT.
... ; Then master of a fhop ; then one of th'inqueft ; Then breaks out bankrupt , or starts alde : man : The original of both is a church - porch . 2. Of lome , my colonel . 1. Good 1. Good faith , of moft O ' your fhop 126 CIT.
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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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