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... Shakespeare unlocked his heart ; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound ; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound d ; With it Camöens soothed an exile's grief ; The Sonnet glittered like a gay myrtle leaf Amid ...
... Shakespeare unlocked his heart ; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound ; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound d ; With it Camöens soothed an exile's grief ; The Sonnet glittered like a gay myrtle leaf Amid ...
Page 116
... Shakespeare spake ; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held . - In everything we are sprung Of Earth's first blood , have titles manifold . WILLIAM WORDS- WORTH . 1770-1850 . UNFILIAL FEARS . WHEN 116 ENGLISH SONNETS .
... Shakespeare spake ; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held . - In everything we are sprung Of Earth's first blood , have titles manifold . WILLIAM WORDS- WORTH . 1770-1850 . UNFILIAL FEARS . WHEN 116 ENGLISH SONNETS .
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... Shakespeare . One of his sonnets is inserted in this collection not for its intrinsic worth , but as a fair specimen of a once popular series . His poems illustrate forcibly enough the weak side of a great literary age . Watson writes ...
... Shakespeare . One of his sonnets is inserted in this collection not for its intrinsic worth , but as a fair specimen of a once popular series . His poems illustrate forcibly enough the weak side of a great literary age . Watson writes ...
Page 206
... Shakespeare expresses his own feelings in his own person . It is not difficult to conceive that the editor , George Steevens , should have been insensible to the beauties of one portion of that volume , the Sonnets , though in no part ...
... Shakespeare expresses his own feelings in his own person . It is not difficult to conceive that the editor , George Steevens , should have been insensible to the beauties of one portion of that volume , the Sonnets , though in no part ...
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... Shakespeare could have submitted himself to such passions ; we have hardly courage to think that he really endured ... Shakespeare's " Divine Sonnets " open , as all students know , a wide and difficult discussion . These poems have ...
... Shakespeare could have submitted himself to such passions ; we have hardly courage to think that he really endured ... Shakespeare's " Divine Sonnets " open , as all students know , a wide and difficult discussion . These poems have ...
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Author beauty behold bird breath bright charm Cornhill Crown 8vo dark DAVID GRAY dear death delight divine dost doth dream earth Edition EDMUND SPENSER ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING English Sonnets eyes fair Faith fame fancy fear feel flowers friends grace happy HARTLEY COLERIDGE hast hath heart heaven heavenly HENRY CONSTABLE hope Illustrations JOHN KEATS JOHN MILTON JULIAN FANE Lady language light live London look Lord love thee Love's mind Mistress morn Muse never night o'er passion Paternoster Row Petrarch pleasure poems poet poetical poetry praise Price reader SAMUEL DANIEL Shakespeare shine sight sing sleep song sorrow soul SPEARE spirit story SURREY sweet tears thine things THOMAS WARTON thou art thought touches verse voice volume weary weep WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE WILLIAM DRUMMOND WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES WILLIAM SHAKE WILLIAM WORDS Wordsworth WORTH written