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... fields , Woods or steepy mountains , yields . The Passionate Shepherd to his Love . By shallow rivers , to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . Ibid . And I will make thee beds of roses , And a thousand fragrant posies . Ibid ...
... fields , Woods or steepy mountains , yields . The Passionate Shepherd to his Love . By shallow rivers , to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . Ibid . And I will make thee beds of roses , And a thousand fragrant posies . Ibid ...
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... fields , Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd , For our advantage , on the bitter cross . Act i . Sc . I. Diana's foresters , gentlemen of the shade , min- ions of the moon . Old father ...
... fields , Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd , For our advantage , on the bitter cross . Act i . Sc . I. Diana's foresters , gentlemen of the shade , min- ions of the moon . Old father ...
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... fields . Act ii . Sc . 3 . Self - love , my liege , is not so vile a sin As self - neglecting . Act ii . Sc . 4 . Once more unto the breach , dear friends , once more , Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's ...
... fields . Act ii . Sc . 3 . Self - love , my liege , is not so vile a sin As self - neglecting . Act ii . Sc . 4 . Once more unto the breach , dear friends , once more , Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's ...
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... field . Act v . Sc . 4 . KING HENRY VIII . Order gave each thing view . Act i . Sc . I. This bold bad man.2 Act ii . Sc . 2 . Verily I swear , ' t is better to be lowly born , And range with humble livers in content , Than to be perk'd ...
... field . Act v . Sc . 4 . KING HENRY VIII . Order gave each thing view . Act i . Sc . I. This bold bad man.2 Act ii . Sc . 2 . Verily I swear , ' t is better to be lowly born , And range with humble livers in content , Than to be perk'd ...
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... ghost : O , let him pass : he hates him , That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer . Act v . Sc . 3 . 1 scourge us , ' Singer . OTHELLO . That never set a squadron in the field 122 Shakespeare .
... ghost : O , let him pass : he hates him , That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer . Act v . Sc . 3 . 1 scourge us , ' Singer . OTHELLO . That never set a squadron in the field 122 Shakespeare .
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Absalom and Achitophel Acti angels Beaumont and Fletcher beauty better breath Cæsar Canto Canto iii Childe Harold's Pilgrimage dear death Devil divine doth dream Dryden Dunciad Dyce earth Eloisa to Abelard Epistle Epitaph Essay eyes Faerie Queene fair fear flower fools give grave Hamlet continued hand happy hath heart heaven hell honour hope Hudibras Ibid JOHN Julius Cæsar King Henry Lady light Line live Lord Macbeth merry mind morn nature ne'er never night numbers o'er Othello Paradise Lost continued Parti peace pleasure Pope Prologue Prov Proverbs Romeo and Juliet Satire Shakespeare sigh sleep smile Song Sonnet sorrow soul spirit Stanza stars sweet tale tears thee There's thine things thought tongue truth unto verse virtue wind wise woman words young youth
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Page 345 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 90 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 202 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out...
Page 73 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 92 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going ; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...
Page 37 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 116 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 50 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 72 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 104 - t that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice ; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy ; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are most select and generous, chief in that.