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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy ... - Page 9263
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The Poets of the Elizabethan Age: A Selection of Their Most Celebrated Songs ...

Elizabethan age - English poetry - 1862 - 83 pages
...LIE. Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the he. Go, tell the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the church it shows What's...
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Half-hours with our sacred poets [an anthology] ed. by A.H. Grant

Half hours - 1863 - 408 pages
...EBBAITD. Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant ; Pear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant : Go, since I needs must die, And give...Church, it shows What's good, and doth no good : If Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell Potentates they live, Acting by others' actions...
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English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and ...

Robert Aris Willmott - English poetry - 1863 - 420 pages
...a thankless arrant ; Fear not to touch the best; — the truth shall be thy warrant; Go, since thou needs must die, and give the world the lie. Say to...Church, it shows what's good, and doth no good ; If Church and Court reply, then give them both the lie. Tell Potentates, they live acting by others' action...
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Select readings from the poets and prose writers of every country, ed. by J ...

James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...authority.] Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand, Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant ; Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the Court it glows, And shines like rotten wood, Go, tell the Church it shows What's good...
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Early English Poems, Chaucer to Pope: Chiefly Unabridged; Illustrated with ...

English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...RALEIGH. Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood Go, tell the church it shows What's good,...
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Favourite English Poems: Chaucer to Pope, 1350-1700

English poetry - 1863 - 362 pages
...RALEIGH. Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood Go, tell the church it shows What's good,...
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Flowers and Fruit Gathered by Loving Hands from Old English Gardens

Emily Taylor - English poetry - 1864 - 210 pages
...LIE. |O, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ; Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant — Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the court it glows And shines, like rotten wood ; Go, tell the church it shows What's good,...
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Gathered riches from the older poets, A.D. 1340-1699 [ed. by W.K.].

W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 260 pages
...Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best ; The truth shall be thy warrant. Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the Court — it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the Church — it shows What's...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best : The truth shall be thy warrant, Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. The Soul's Errand.* RICHARD BARNITELD. (Born circa 1570.) As it fell upon a day, In the merry month...
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Gathered riches from the older poets, A.D. 1340-1699 [ed. by W.K.].

W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 238 pages
...Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best ; The truth shall be thy warrant. Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. 1: Go, tell the Court — it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the Church — it shows What's...
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