The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson, ed., with notes, by R. Bell1876 |
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... VENUS • PAGE 101 • • 101 102 • 103 103 103 106 107 109 • 110 · 110 112 113 114 115 • 116 116 117 118 119 120 120 VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF A PEACOCK VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A CARVING OF MERCURY , THROWING FEATHERS UNTO THE WIND ...
... VENUS • PAGE 101 • • 101 102 • 103 103 103 106 107 109 • 110 · 110 112 113 114 115 • 116 116 117 118 119 120 120 VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF A PEACOCK VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A CARVING OF MERCURY , THROWING FEATHERS UNTO THE WIND ...
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... Venus in her bravest hue , And Juno in the show of majesty , For she's Samela , Pallas in wit ; all three , if you well view , For beauty , wit , and matchless dignity Yield to Samela . THRO DORON'S JIG . HROUGH the shrubs as I ' gan ...
... Venus in her bravest hue , And Juno in the show of majesty , For she's Samela , Pallas in wit ; all three , if you well view , For beauty , wit , and matchless dignity Yield to Samela . THRO DORON'S JIG . HROUGH the shrubs as I ' gan ...
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... Venus vaunts her silver shine ? Ah , more than that by just compare is thine , Whose crystal looks the cloudy heavens do clear ! How oft have I descending Titan seen His burning locks couch in the sea - queen's lap , And beauteous ...
... Venus vaunts her silver shine ? Ah , more than that by just compare is thine , Whose crystal looks the cloudy heavens do clear ! How oft have I descending Titan seen His burning locks couch in the sea - queen's lap , And beauteous ...
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... Venus ' son did seek a bower To sport with Psyche , his desirèd dear , He chose her chin , and from that happy stowre * He never stints in glory to appear . This word is used in several significations by the old writers , but chiefly as ...
... Venus ' son did seek a bower To sport with Psyche , his desirèd dear , He chose her chin , and from that happy stowre * He never stints in glory to appear . This word is used in several significations by the old writers , but chiefly as ...
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... Venus dreamed upon two pretty things , Her thoughts they were affection's chiefest nests ; She sucked and sighed , and bathed her in the springs , And when she waked , they were my mistress ' breasts . Once Cupid sought a hold to couch ...
... Venus dreamed upon two pretty things , Her thoughts they were affection's chiefest nests ; She sucked and sighed , and bathed her in the springs , And when she waked , they were my mistress ' breasts . Once Cupid sought a hold to couch ...
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Alexis beauty bel ami Ben Jonson blood breath bright Cæsar called CARMELA CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE coloured Coridon court COVENT GARDEN crown death delight desire doth Earl earth Edition English Engravings epigram EURYMACHUS eyes face fair fame fate fear fire flame flowers follies fortune GEORGE BELL Gifford grace Greene Greene's grief hair hast hath heart heaven Hero Hero and Leander honour Hymen Jonson king kiss lady Leander light live look Lord love's lovers Marlowe masques MELICERTUS Memoir mind mistress muse N'oserez never night nymph Phillis Phoebus piece play poems poet Pompey Portrait praise Queen repentance Richard Brome Robert Greene Shakspeare shepherd shine sighs sing smile song sorrow soul swain sweet Tamburlaine tears tell thee Thessaly thine thou art thought Translated unto Venus verse virtue vols vows wanton Wherein WILLIAM HAZLITT youth
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Page 399 - The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise ; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
Page 232 - With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 231 - And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Page 230 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 498 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 399 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us; Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Page 399 - For, if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers ; And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line ; And, though thou had'st small Latin and less Greek...
Page 271 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 298 - scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace; and, asked, say: Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry — For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.