Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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Page 90
... earth might be , So pure and shiny , that the silver flood Through every channel running one might see ; Most goodly it with curious imagery Was overwrought , and shapes of naked boys , Of which some seem'd with lively jollity To fly ...
... earth might be , So pure and shiny , that the silver flood Through every channel running one might see ; Most goodly it with curious imagery Was overwrought , and shapes of naked boys , Of which some seem'd with lively jollity To fly ...
Page 92
... earth enrich and beautify ; The fertile Nile , which creatures now doth frame ; Long Rhodanus , whose course springs from the sky ; Fair Ister , flowing from the mountains high ; Divine Scamander , purpled yet with blood Of Greeks and ...
... earth enrich and beautify ; The fertile Nile , which creatures now doth frame ; Long Rhodanus , whose course springs from the sky ; Fair Ister , flowing from the mountains high ; Divine Scamander , purpled yet with blood Of Greeks and ...
Page 93
... earth full steepe , And low , where dawning day doth never peepe , His dwelling is , there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe , In silver deaw , his ever drouping hed , Whiles sad Night over him her mantle ...
... earth full steepe , And low , where dawning day doth never peepe , His dwelling is , there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe , In silver deaw , his ever drouping hed , Whiles sad Night over him her mantle ...
Page 100
... earth , per- ceives , Or ent'ring of the thick by pressing of the greaves , Where he had gone to lodge . Now when the hart doth hear The often - bellowing hounds to vent his secret lair , He rousing rusheth out , and through the brakes ...
... earth , per- ceives , Or ent'ring of the thick by pressing of the greaves , Where he had gone to lodge . Now when the hart doth hear The often - bellowing hounds to vent his secret lair , He rousing rusheth out , and through the brakes ...
Page 109
... earth falls down , and fire doth mount above , Till both their proper elements do touch . And as the moisture which the thirsty earth Sucks from the sca to fill her empty veins , From out her womb at last doth take a birth , And runs a ...
... earth falls down , and fire doth mount above , Till both their proper elements do touch . And as the moisture which the thirsty earth Sucks from the sca to fill her empty veins , From out her womb at last doth take a birth , And runs a ...
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