Lucasta: The Poems of Richard LovelaceJ.R. Smith, 1864 - 293 pages |
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... Ayres and Dialogues [ by Thomas Stanley Esq . ] set by John Gamble , 1656. The verses themselves have little merit ; and the only object which I had in introducing them , was to add to the completeness of the present edition : - TO MY ...
... Ayres and Dialogues [ by Thomas Stanley Esq . ] set by John Gamble , 1656. The verses themselves have little merit ; and the only object which I had in introducing them , was to add to the completeness of the present edition : - TO MY ...
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... the former ( H. Lawes ) set many of Lovelace's pieces to music , only two occur in the Ayres and Dialogues for One , Two , and Three Voyces , 1653-55-8 , folio . Career III . Though seas and land betwixt us both Going beyond the Seas.
... the former ( H. Lawes ) set many of Lovelace's pieces to music , only two occur in the Ayres and Dialogues for One , Two , and Three Voyces , 1653-55-8 , folio . Career III . Though seas and land betwixt us both Going beyond the Seas.
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... Ayres and Dialogues . 2 Forbear to brade - Lawes ' Ayres and Dialogues , and Cot grave . This - Lawes ' Ayres and Dialogues . Cotgrave reads his . Like a clue of golden thread , Most excellently ravelled POEMS . 29 Song To Amarantha ...
... Ayres and Dialogues . 2 Forbear to brade - Lawes ' Ayres and Dialogues , and Cot grave . This - Lawes ' Ayres and Dialogues . Cotgrave reads his . Like a clue of golden thread , Most excellently ravelled POEMS . 29 Song To Amarantha ...
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... violins , and composed for the theatres . He published Ayres and Dialogues to the Theorbo and Bass Viol , fol . Lond . , 1659 . " - HAWKINS . Cho . Soldiers suspected of their courage goe , That POEMS . 39 Dialogue Lucasta, Alexis.
... violins , and composed for the theatres . He published Ayres and Dialogues to the Theorbo and Bass Viol , fol . Lond . , 1659 . " - HAWKINS . Cho . Soldiers suspected of their courage goe , That POEMS . 39 Dialogue Lucasta, Alexis.
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... Ayres , with their Ditties eng- shed , " 1629 , in praise of which Jonson has some lines in his Underwoods . That trac❜t the stars , ' spite of report , 100 POEMS . On the Death of Mrs Elizabeth Filmer An Ele- giacall Epitaph.
... Ayres , with their Ditties eng- shed , " 1629 , in praise of which Jonson has some lines in his Underwoods . That trac❜t the stars , ' spite of report , 100 POEMS . On the Death of Mrs Elizabeth Filmer An Ele- giacall Epitaph.
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Page 26 - Though seas and land betwixt us both, Our faith and troth, Like separated souls, All time and space controls : Above the highest sphere we meet Unseen, unknown ; and greet as Angels greet. So then we do anticipate Our after-fate, And are alive i...
Page 117 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 27 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 168 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her 15 meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 119 - Stone Walls doe not a Prison make, Nor I'ron bars a Cage; Mindes innocent and quiet take That for an Hermitage; If I have freedome in my Love, And in my soule am free; Angels alone that sore above, Injoy such liberty.
Page 38 - Such was Zuleika, such around her shone The nameless charms unmark'd by her alone — The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And oh! that eye was in itself a Soul...
Page 25 - Seas IF to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone You or I were alone ; Then, my Lucasta, might I crave Pity from blustering wind, or swallowing wave. But...
Page 83 - And in her, all the Deities. Each step trod out a Lover's thought And the Ambitious hopes he brought...
Page 238 - But He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had almost forgot his poetry, Though to say the truth (and Apollo did know it) He might have been both his priest and his poet.
Page 272 - Nunc te cognovi : quare etsi impensius uror, Multo mi tamen es vilior et levior. Qui potis est ? inquis.