Receive them free, and sell them by the weight; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated,... The Works of Christopher Marlowe: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes ... - Page 146by Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - 1865 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
| Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - English drama - 1850 - 444 pages
...— Old ed. " siluerbings." t Tell] ie count. Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen J costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a caract of this quantity, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity. This... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently...is the ware wherein consists my wealth ; And thus, methinks, should men of judgment frame Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade, And as their wealth... | |
| Charles Lamb - English drama - 1854 - 572 pages
...costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a caract of this quality, May serve in peril of calamity To ransom great kings...is the ware wherein consists my wealth : And thus methinks should men of judgment frame Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade, And, as their wealth... | |
| Charles Lamb - English drama - 1854 - 572 pages
...costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a caract of this quality, May serve in peril of calamity To ransom great kings from captivity. This ia the ware wherein consists my wealth : And thus methinks should men of judgment frame Their means... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1855 - 412 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz. grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a carat2 of this quality, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity : —... | |
| Theology - 1856 - 924 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds And seld-scen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a caract of this quality, May serve in peril of calamity To ransome great kings from captivity. This... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1857 - 468 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topas, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a caract of this quality, May serve in peril of calamity To ransome great kings from captivity. This... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently...is the ware wherein consists my wealth ; And thus, methinks, should men of judgment frame Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade, And as their wealth... | |
| ROBERT NARES, A.M., F.R.S., F.A.S., - 1859 - 494 pages
...carrot. Weight or value of precious stones. Asoné of them, indifferently rated, And of a ctirrect of this quantity, May serve in peril of calamity To ransom great kings from captivity. JrK of Malla, O.'PI., viii, 307. But doth his caract, and just standard keep In all the prov'd assays.... | |
| Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 604 pages
...ransom great kings from captivity .— This is the ware wherein consists my wealth ; And thus, methinks, should men of judgment frame Their means of traffic...vulgar trade, And, as their wealth increaseth, so enclose Infinite riches in a little room. — But how now stands the wind ? Into what corner peers... | |
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