Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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... breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit , that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beames , which then did glister fayre ; When I , ( whom [ whose ] sullein care , Through discontent of my long fruitlesse stay In princes court ...
... breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit , that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beames , which then did glister fayre ; When I , ( whom [ whose ] sullein care , Through discontent of my long fruitlesse stay In princes court ...
Page 149
... breathing wind , That plays amidst the plain ! If , by the favour of propitious stars you gain Such grace , as in my lady's bosom place to find , Be proud to touch those places : And when her warmth your moisture forth doth wear ...
... breathing wind , That plays amidst the plain ! If , by the favour of propitious stars you gain Such grace , as in my lady's bosom place to find , Be proud to touch those places : And when her warmth your moisture forth doth wear ...
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... breath , now raging like a tor- rent . The mortal instruments are then at war , and all the state of man suffers an insurrection . ' The human soul is made the sport of fortune , the prey of adversity : it is stretched on the wheel of ...
... breath , now raging like a tor- rent . The mortal instruments are then at war , and all the state of man suffers an insurrection . ' The human soul is made the sport of fortune , the prey of adversity : it is stretched on the wheel of ...
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... , like golden threads , play'd with her breath ; O modest wantons ! wanton modesty ! Showing life's triumph in the map of death , And death's dim look in life's mortality . Each in 182 SHAKSPEARE . Description of Lucrece asleep.
... , like golden threads , play'd with her breath ; O modest wantons ! wanton modesty ! Showing life's triumph in the map of death , And death's dim look in life's mortality . Each in 182 SHAKSPEARE . Description of Lucrece asleep.
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... breath , perfumes the air , And your clothes that set you out . Yet though truth has this confess'd , And I vow I love in jest , When I next begin to court , And protest an amorous flame , You will swear I in earnest am , Bedlam ! this ...
... breath , perfumes the air , And your clothes that set you out . Yet though truth has this confess'd , And I vow I love in jest , When I next begin to court , And protest an amorous flame , You will swear I in earnest am , Bedlam ! this ...
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