The Book of Gems: Chaucer to PriorSamuel Carter Hall Saunders and Otley, 1836 - English poetry |
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... thought it unadvisable to load his brief biographies with references to authorities ; but trusts they have been compiled with care and accuracy , and that he has maturely weighed the slight criticisms he has ventured to append to them ...
... thought it unadvisable to load his brief biographies with references to authorities ; but trusts they have been compiled with care and accuracy , and that he has maturely weighed the slight criticisms he has ventured to append to them ...
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... thought ) was a right plesaunt sight ; And eke the birdis songis for to here , Would have rejoisid any erthly wight , And I , that couth not yet in no manere Herin the nightingale of all the yere , Full busily herknid , with hert and ...
... thought ) was a right plesaunt sight ; And eke the birdis songis for to here , Would have rejoisid any erthly wight , And I , that couth not yet in no manere Herin the nightingale of all the yere , Full busily herknid , with hert and ...
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... Thought that I would assay , in some manere , To know fully the trouth of this mattere , And what they were that rode so plesauntly ; And when they were the herbir passed by , I drest me forth ; and happid mete , anon , A right fair ...
... Thought that I would assay , in some manere , To know fully the trouth of this mattere , And what they were that rode so plesauntly ; And when they were the herbir passed by , I drest me forth ; and happid mete , anon , A right fair ...
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... thought She all imprinteth , and forgetteth nought . For she considereth every circumstance , Both of his port and his governance ; His sunnish hair , crisped like gold wire , His knightly look , and his manly cheer . * * * JAMES THE ...
... thought She all imprinteth , and forgetteth nought . For she considereth every circumstance , Both of his port and his governance ; His sunnish hair , crisped like gold wire , His knightly look , and his manly cheer . * * * JAMES THE ...
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... thought but worthy of a ballad - monger's stall . " The Poem is one of pure allegory ; the hero is Graund Amoure , True Gallantry : and the heroine La bell Pucell , Perfect Beauty ; and the " knowledge " is conveyed " under a coloure ...
... thought but worthy of a ballad - monger's stall . " The Poem is one of pure allegory ; the hero is Graund Amoure , True Gallantry : and the heroine La bell Pucell , Perfect Beauty ; and the " knowledge " is conveyed " under a coloure ...
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Page 221 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Page 106 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 138 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed : Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Page 267 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet And throws the melons at our feet; But apples, plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice.
Page 271 - Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Page 227 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But O, sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ? Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left...
Page 223 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade...
Page 267 - Ambergris on shore. He cast (of which we rather boast) The Gospel's Pearl upon our Coast. And in these Rocks for us did frame A Temple, where to sound his Name. Oh let our Voice his Praise exalt, Till it arrive at Heaven's Vault : Which thence (perhaps) rebounding may Echo beyond the Mexique Bay.
Page 200 - Who would have thought my shrivelled heart Could have recovered greenness? It was gone Quite under ground; as flowers depart To see their mother-root, when they have blown; Where they together All the hard weather, Dead to the world, keep house unknown.
Page 226 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes; There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast.