Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, with a Biography of Each Poet, &c, Volume 3H. Washbourne, 1845 - English poetry |
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... loves and graces , was now only occupied with the abstruse researches of science ; and fancy seemed to be crushed and overlaid by the weight of learning . The accession of James I. , who brought to the throne the accomplishments and ...
... loves and graces , was now only occupied with the abstruse researches of science ; and fancy seemed to be crushed and overlaid by the weight of learning . The accession of James I. , who brought to the throne the accomplishments and ...
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... Paradise my time is spent ! Such thoughts may still my fancy move , So may I ever be in love ! All my joys to this are folly , Nought so sweet as melancholy . When I recount love's many frights , My sighs and ROBERT BURTON . t.
... Paradise my time is spent ! Such thoughts may still my fancy move , So may I ever be in love ! All my joys to this are folly , Nought so sweet as melancholy . When I recount love's many frights , My sighs and ROBERT BURTON . t.
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... love's many frights , My sighs and tears , my waking nights , My jealous fits ; O mine hard fate I now repent , but ' tis too late . No torment is so bad as love , So bitter to my soul can prove . All my griefs to this are jolly ...
... love's many frights , My sighs and tears , my waking nights , My jealous fits ; O mine hard fate I now repent , but ' tis too late . No torment is so bad as love , So bitter to my soul can prove . All my griefs to this are jolly ...
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... love again My life the sacrifice shall be . Strephon's Palinode . SWEET , I do not pardon crave Till I have By deserts this fault amended : This , I only this desire , That your ire May with penance be suspended . Not my will , but fate ...
... love again My life the sacrifice shall be . Strephon's Palinode . SWEET , I do not pardon crave Till I have By deserts this fault amended : This , I only this desire , That your ire May with penance be suspended . Not my will , but fate ...
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... Love finds an entry to her heart : At feeling of this new - come guest , Lord ! how the gentle nymph doth start . She runs not now , she shoots no more ; Away she throws both shafts and bow : She seeks for that she shunn'd before , She ...
... Love finds an entry to her heart : At feeling of this new - come guest , Lord ! how the gentle nymph doth start . She runs not now , she shoots no more ; Away she throws both shafts and bow : She seeks for that she shunn'd before , She ...
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