The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 - English drama |
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... true parafites , others but their zanies . B 2 Johnson's Volpone . ' Tis ' Tis true , that fway'd by ftrong neceffity , PAR 3.
... true parafites , others but their zanies . B 2 Johnson's Volpone . ' Tis ' Tis true , that fway'd by ftrong neceffity , PAR 3.
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William Oldys. ' Tis true , that fway'd by ftrong neceffity , I am enforc'd to eat my careful bread , With too much obfequy ; ' tis true , befide , That I am fain to fpin my own poor raiment , Out of my mere obfervance , b'ing not born ...
William Oldys. ' Tis true , that fway'd by ftrong neceffity , I am enforc'd to eat my careful bread , With too much obfequy ; ' tis true , befide , That I am fain to fpin my own poor raiment , Out of my mere obfervance , b'ing not born ...
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... true reafon's light , Do from the paffions of the fenfe proceed . But fince the brain doth lodge the pow'rs of fenfe , How makes it in the heart thofe paffions fpring ? The mutual love , the kind intelligence ' Twixt heart and brain ...
... true reafon's light , Do from the paffions of the fenfe proceed . But fince the brain doth lodge the pow'rs of fenfe , How makes it in the heart thofe paffions fpring ? The mutual love , the kind intelligence ' Twixt heart and brain ...
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... true worth were his , Muft vanquish vice , and no bafe thoughts conceive : The braveft trophy ever man obtain'd ; Is that , which o'er himself , himself hath gain'd . E. of Sterline's . Darius Fear feeing all , fears it of all is fpy'd ...
... true worth were his , Muft vanquish vice , and no bafe thoughts conceive : The braveft trophy ever man obtain'd ; Is that , which o'er himself , himself hath gain'd . E. of Sterline's . Darius Fear feeing all , fears it of all is fpy'd ...
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... true gentleman that ever breath'd . The stock of patience then cannot be poor ; All it defires , it has ; what monarch more ? It is the greatest enemy to law That can be ; for it doth embrace all wrongs ; And fo chains up lawyers , and ...
... true gentleman that ever breath'd . The stock of patience then cannot be poor ; All it defires , it has ; what monarch more ? It is the greatest enemy to law That can be ; for it doth embrace all wrongs ; And fo chains up lawyers , and ...
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againſt Aleyn's Atheist's Tragedy bafe Barons Wars Beaumont and Fletcher's becauſe beft beſt blood Catiline caufe cauſe Chapman's Crown's Cymbeline Daniel's Davenant's Gondibert defire doth Drayton's ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe fame fcorn fear fecret feek feem fenfe ferve fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt flave fome forrow foul fpirits ftate ftill ftrength ftrong fubjects fuch fure Gondibert grief hath heart heav'n Henry VII himſelf honour Ibid itſelf Johnson's king lefs live loft Lord Brooke's Lover's Melancholy luft man's Marfton's Mirror for Magiftrates moft moſt muft muſt Nabbs's ne'er never paffion pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe princes puniſhment reafon revenge Revenger's Tragedy rife Sejanus Shakespear's Shakespear's Hamlet ſhall ſhe Shirley's Sir John Davies ſtate Sterline's ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou unto uſe valour vertue virtue Volpone Whilft whofe whoſe wife women Women beware Women
Popular passages
Page 309 - And new philosophy calls all in doubt; The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and th' earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it.
Page 199 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 22 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 88 - I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness ; Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
Page 19 - Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
Page 43 - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence. What then? what rests? Try what repentance can: what can it not? Yet what can it, when one can not repent? O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged! Help, angels! make assay; Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All may be well.
Page 104 - Mongst quiet kindred that had nothing left By their dead parents : ' Stay,' quoth Reputation, ' Do not forsake me ; for it is my nature, If once I part from any man I meet, I am never found again.
Page 114 - Now might I do it, pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't...
Page 21 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Page 105 - A real, or at least, a seeming good. Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name, And, free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Thus he the church at once protects and spoils ; But princes' swords are sharper than their styles : And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends.