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... writing of lyrical verse to be set to music in the incidental songs of the drama continued in the dramatists Dekker , Fletcher , Mas- singer , and Jonson himself . All carried on their own earlier practice , Ford and Shirley following ...
... writing of lyrical verse to be set to music in the incidental songs of the drama continued in the dramatists Dekker , Fletcher , Mas- singer , and Jonson himself . All carried on their own earlier practice , Ford and Shirley following ...
Page xxii
... writing into Restoration times , the last a consummate master of panegyric and a lyric and elegiac poet after the manner of his other master , Donne . James Howell , the author of the charming Epistolae Ho - Elianae , long intimate with ...
... writing into Restoration times , the last a consummate master of panegyric and a lyric and elegiac poet after the manner of his other master , Donne . James Howell , the author of the charming Epistolae Ho - Elianae , long intimate with ...
Page xxiv
... writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . " If the ...
... writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . " If the ...
Page xxix
... writing treason and for writing dull.1 Of like nature is the diamond cross on the bosom of Pope's Belinda , Which Jews might kiss , and infidels adore.2 Even where epigrammatic point is not demanded , ideas so shape themselves : By ...
... writing treason and for writing dull.1 Of like nature is the diamond cross on the bosom of Pope's Belinda , Which Jews might kiss , and infidels adore.2 Even where epigrammatic point is not demanded , ideas so shape themselves : By ...
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... written for his own pleasure and that of a few friends who loved the work for the man's sake . Herrick was nearly sixty before The Hesperides was printed , and the volume made no great stir , nor is likely to have done so even had it ...
... written for his own pleasure and that of a few friends who loved the work for the man's sake . Herrick was nearly sixty before The Hesperides was printed , and the volume made no great stir , nor is likely to have done so even had it ...
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Amoret appears beauty Ben Jonson bright Carew Castara century Charles Charles Cotton charming Clorinda conceit Cowley Crashaw crown Dean Prior dear death delight devotional Donne Donne's dost doth earth edition EDMUND WALLER Elizabethan Lyrics English eyes face fair fate flame flowers glory grace Grosart hast hath heart heaven Herbert Herrick Hesperides JAMES SHIRLEY Jasper Mayne JOHN DRYDEN JOHN MILTON Jonson King kiss Lady light literature live Lord Love's lover Milton mistress night passion Pattison Phyllis play poem poetical poetry poets praise prose Quarles Queen reads reign RICHARD CRASHAW ROBERT HERRICK rose Sandys shade Shakespeare sing smile SONG sonnet soul Spenser spring stanza stars stay sweet baby sleep tears thee thine things Thomas Carew THOMAS FLATMAN thou thought Thyrsis unto Vaughan verse Waller whilst WILLIAM HABINGTON wings Wit's Recreations Wither word written youth ΙΟ
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Page 169 - Dear, beauteous death; the Jewel of the Just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!
Page 80 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 134 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates — When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 22 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Page 217 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 159 - Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.
Page 218 - Grand Chorus As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the Blest above; So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Page 21 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 12 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again; So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night.
Page 23 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even...