Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Good-fellow, to which are Added Notes Festivous, Etc |
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... the nest - like little domicile of Democritus when he wrote the following WISH . One of those neat quiet nooks That into a garden looks Give me for myself and books , Not exactly in my dotage ! No shrewish wife , DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON . 3.
... the nest - like little domicile of Democritus when he wrote the following WISH . One of those neat quiet nooks That into a garden looks Give me for myself and books , Not exactly in my dotage ! No shrewish wife , DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON . 3.
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... look upon is sweet , And fondly mark How , in each expressive face ( Tinged by joy or sorrow's grace ) We the mind immortal trace , That heavenly spark ! Charm'd by fancy , taught by truth , Ye were dear to me in sooth In the green leaf ...
... look upon is sweet , And fondly mark How , in each expressive face ( Tinged by joy or sorrow's grace ) We the mind immortal trace , That heavenly spark ! Charm'd by fancy , taught by truth , Ye were dear to me in sooth In the green leaf ...
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... look at superior abilities not with envy , but admiration , and a desire to imitate . - The world how- ever is not of this opinion . Its littleness would lower the gifted mind to its own level , its vanity would crush the excellence ...
... look at superior abilities not with envy , but admiration , and a desire to imitate . - The world how- ever is not of this opinion . Its littleness would lower the gifted mind to its own level , its vanity would crush the excellence ...
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... looks I turn to my best friends my books . With leisure that no tedium knows , With health on every breeze that blows , How happy I to friends that fly That ne'er deceive , and ne'er can die ! I the pabulum am after Looking that I live ...
... looks I turn to my best friends my books . With leisure that no tedium knows , With health on every breeze that blows , How happy I to friends that fly That ne'er deceive , and ne'er can die ! I the pabulum am after Looking that I live ...
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... look and tone never to be forgotten , he added , " If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart , Absent thee from felicity awhile , And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain , To tell my story . " 19 Queen Bess , when sorrowful and ...
... look and tone never to be forgotten , he added , " If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart , Absent thee from felicity awhile , And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain , To tell my story . " 19 Queen Bess , when sorrowful and ...
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Page 96 - So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er : So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 9 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
Page 226 - Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood : I pray you let them not.
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Page 223 - London, to thee I do present the merry month of May; Let each true subject be content to hear me what I say: For from the top of conduit-head, as plainly may appear, I will both tell my name to you, and wherefore I came here. My name is Ralph, by due descent though not ignoble I, Yet far inferior to the flock of gracious grocery...
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Page 278 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 20 - I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is not impaired to any great degree; and if I lose not more of it, I have no great reason to complain. What...
Page 3 - Yes, Sir : there was another fine passage too, which he struck out : "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over ; for, I found that generally what was new was false.
Page 11 - And his most holy life was such, that it begot such reverence to God, and to him, that they thought themselves the happier when they carried Mr. Herbert's blessing back with them to their labour.