Collectanea Anglo-poetica, Or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue of a Portion of a Collection of Early English Poetry, with Occasional Extracts and Remarks Biographical and Critical, Part 4Chetham Society, 1869 - English poetry |
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... true Nobilitie , whose high deseruing vertues may cause me hereafter strike that fire out of darknesse , which the brightest Day shall enuie for beautie . " It is not only one of the rarest , but one of the ablest and best written of ...
... true Nobilitie , whose high deseruing vertues may cause me hereafter strike that fire out of darknesse , which the brightest Day shall enuie for beautie . " It is not only one of the rarest , but one of the ablest and best written of ...
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... true Content . Contentment is our heauen , and all our deedes Bend in that circle , seld or neuer closde , More then the letter in the word preceedes , And to conduce that compasse is reposde . More force and art in beautie ioyned with ...
... true Content . Contentment is our heauen , and all our deedes Bend in that circle , seld or neuer closde , More then the letter in the word preceedes , And to conduce that compasse is reposde . More force and art in beautie ioyned with ...
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... true sense ( for the time then ) in my spirit ; And I , inuisiblie , went prompting thee To those fayre Greenes , where thou didst english me . Scarce he had vttered this , when well I knewe It was my Princes Homer ; whose deare viewe ...
... true sense ( for the time then ) in my spirit ; And I , inuisiblie , went prompting thee To those fayre Greenes , where thou didst english me . Scarce he had vttered this , when well I knewe It was my Princes Homer ; whose deare viewe ...
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... true Friend , Mr. Henry Jones . " The following passage , addressed to Death , will serve to shew the style of Chapman's elegy , and is not deficient in poetic force : Partiall deuourer euer of the best , With headlong rapture , sparing ...
... true Friend , Mr. Henry Jones . " The following passage , addressed to Death , will serve to shew the style of Chapman's elegy , and is not deficient in poetic force : Partiall deuourer euer of the best , With headlong rapture , sparing ...
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... true - spoke Minde with policie But all things vse with first simplicitie . It is believed that not more than three or four copies of this work are in existence . One sold at Sotheby's in 1821 for 5l . 5s .; Bibl . Heber , pt . iv . No ...
... true - spoke Minde with policie But all things vse with first simplicitie . It is believed that not more than three or four copies of this work are in existence . One sold at Sotheby's in 1821 for 5l . 5s .; Bibl . Heber , pt . iv . No ...
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Page 319 - David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king. 25 And the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
Page 472 - Crudities. Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia, alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands ; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling Members of this Kingdome &c.
Page 477 - India, &c., and Extracts relating to him from various Authors : being a more particular Account of his Travels (mostly on foot) in different parts of the Globe than any hitherto published.
Page 319 - Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. 5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Page 500 - How it outruns thy following eye! Use all persuasions now, and try If thou canst call it back, or stay it there.
Page 510 - Temple," and aptly,' for in the Temple of God, under His wing, he led his life in St. Mary's Church, near St. Peter's college ; there he lodged under Tertullian's roof of angels ; there he made his nest more gladly than David's swallow near the house of God : where, like a primitive saint, he offered more prayers in the night than others usually offer in the day.
Page 515 - In the close murmur of a sparkling noise, And lay the groundwork of her hopeful song, Still keeping in the forward stream so long, Till a sweet whirlwind (striving to get out) Heaves her soft bosom...
Page 339 - Love's Martyr, or Rosalin's Complaint, Allegorically shadowing the Truth of Love, in the constant Fate of
Page 466 - The shot was casie, and what coneernes us more, The way was so, mine host did ride before, Mine host was full of Ale, and History, ^ And on the morrow, when he brought us nigh Where the two Roses...
Page 508 - CRASHAW, (RICHARD.) — Steps to the Temple, Sacred Poems. With the Delights of the Muses.