Kentish Poets. A series of writers in English poetry, natives or residents in the county of Kent; with specimens of their compositions and some account of their lives and writings. By R. F.1821 |
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... Fire that purgeth all things that are unclean , May health and hurt : and if these things be true , may I trust sometime my harm be my health ; Since every woe is joined with some wealth . This little poem is a translation from the ...
... Fire that purgeth all things that are unclean , May health and hurt : and if these things be true , may I trust sometime my harm be my health ; Since every woe is joined with some wealth . This little poem is a translation from the ...
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... the powerful , but yet , I esteem them less than the common sort of men do , who judge more by outward ap- pearances than by real intrinsic merit , I grant sometime that of glory the fire Doth touch SIR THOMAS WYATT . 35.
... the powerful , but yet , I esteem them less than the common sort of men do , who judge more by outward ap- pearances than by real intrinsic merit , I grant sometime that of glory the fire Doth touch SIR THOMAS WYATT . 35.
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Rowland FREEMAN. I grant sometime that of glory the fire Doth touch my heart ; and me lust not report Blame by honour , and honour to desire . But how may I this honour now attain . What cannot dye the colour of black a liar ? My Poynz ...
Rowland FREEMAN. I grant sometime that of glory the fire Doth touch my heart ; and me lust not report Blame by honour , and honour to desire . But how may I this honour now attain . What cannot dye the colour of black a liar ? My Poynz ...
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... fire is wrought , - My busy mind presented unto me , Such fall of Peers as in this realm had be : That oft I wished some would their woes descrive , * To warn the rest , whom fortune left alive . And strait , -forth - stalking with ...
... fire is wrought , - My busy mind presented unto me , Such fall of Peers as in this realm had be : That oft I wished some would their woes descrive , * To warn the rest , whom fortune left alive . And strait , -forth - stalking with ...
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... so far forth with the fire Of wreaking flames , that now determines she To die by death , or venged by death to be . * Astounded . When fell Revenge , with bloody foul pretence , Had 54 THOMAS SACKVILLE , EARL OF DORset .
... so far forth with the fire Of wreaking flames , that now determines she To die by death , or venged by death to be . * Astounded . When fell Revenge , with bloody foul pretence , Had 54 THOMAS SACKVILLE , EARL OF DORset .
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