Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed, Volume 4T. Bensley, 1816 - English literature |
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... leave our Helicon , Our double - topped hill , our Citharon , That were nigh ruinated with disgrace , And hither come to a more worthy place ; Where on the top of an imperious * throne We will build up another Helicon . The hilles we ...
... leave our Helicon , Our double - topped hill , our Citharon , That were nigh ruinated with disgrace , And hither come to a more worthy place ; Where on the top of an imperious * throne We will build up another Helicon . The hilles we ...
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... leave winking at your owne faultes and follies . And thus prepared , I beseech you descend to conferre these gay colours in the broade light . Your Earles ( say they ) are the Queene's true subjects . Suppose it , for the time , and for ...
... leave winking at your owne faultes and follies . And thus prepared , I beseech you descend to conferre these gay colours in the broade light . Your Earles ( say they ) are the Queene's true subjects . Suppose it , for the time , and for ...
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... leave to a hunter to kill the best lambe in his flock , than to let goe a foxe or a wolfe . : Item that no traitor is more perilous than he , that wresteth the lawe to raise an underminer of the prince's crowne to her danger . Item that ...
... leave to a hunter to kill the best lambe in his flock , than to let goe a foxe or a wolfe . : Item that no traitor is more perilous than he , that wresteth the lawe to raise an underminer of the prince's crowne to her danger . Item that ...
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... leave the ampler relation hereof to future poste- rities ; and herein humbly craving pardon of your Majestie , for this my presumption , ( which indeed hath bene founded on your Highnesse ' gracious acceptance of my former passionate ...
... leave the ampler relation hereof to future poste- rities ; and herein humbly craving pardon of your Majestie , for this my presumption , ( which indeed hath bene founded on your Highnesse ' gracious acceptance of my former passionate ...
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... 1596 . 4to . pp . 436 , and three leaves of introduction . * The full and plain word , " Deliver , " would have been more judicious : this unusual elision is most awkward . DEDICATION addressed " To the right Honorable my most especiall 54.
... 1596 . 4to . pp . 436 , and three leaves of introduction . * The full and plain word , " Deliver , " would have been more judicious : this unusual elision is most awkward . DEDICATION addressed " To the right Honorable my most especiall 54.
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Page 497 - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great "twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense ; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus...
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Page 492 - Some there were, that did interpret The affectionate Shepheard, otherwise then (in truth) I meant, touching the subiect thereof, to wit, the loue of a Shepheard to a boy ; a fault, the which I will not excuse, because I neuer made. Onely this, I will vnshaddow my conceit : being nothing else, but an imitation of Virgill, in the second Eglogue of Alexis.
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Page 199 - Fletcher (bringing with them a strong party) appeared, as if they meant to water their Bayes with blood, rather then part with their proper Right, which indeed Apollo and the Muses (had with much justice) conferr'd upon them, so that now there is like to be a trouble in Triplex; Skelton, Gower and the Monk of Bury were at Daggers-drawing for Chaucer...
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