Specimens of the Early English Poets,: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language;Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row., 1811 - English poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 39
Page 3
... court . Our maiden queen , unable to submit without some de- gree of peevishness and regret to the ravages made in her charms by the attacks of age and infirmity , spread uneasiness and constraint all around her ; and the playful ...
... court . Our maiden queen , unable to submit without some de- gree of peevishness and regret to the ravages made in her charms by the attacks of age and infirmity , spread uneasiness and constraint all around her ; and the playful ...
Page 11
... court , methinks I kiss , Methinks I now embrace my miss : O blessed days , O sweet content ! In Paradise my time is spent ! Such thoughts may still my fancy move , may I ever be in love ! So All my joys to this are folly , Nought so ...
... court , methinks I kiss , Methinks I now embrace my miss : O blessed days , O sweet content ! In Paradise my time is spent ! Such thoughts may still my fancy move , may I ever be in love ! So All my joys to this are folly , Nought so ...
Page 33
... sometimes the willow wear , By subtle swains that dare forswear , We wonder whence it comes , and fear They've been at court , and learnt it there . VOL . III . с WILLIAM ALEXANDER , OF MENSTRIE , EARL OF STERLINE , THOMAS HEYWOOD . 33.
... sometimes the willow wear , By subtle swains that dare forswear , We wonder whence it comes , and fear They've been at court , and learnt it there . VOL . III . с WILLIAM ALEXANDER , OF MENSTRIE , EARL OF STERLINE , THOMAS HEYWOOD . 33.
Page 53
... courts surveys ; and now , come back again , Finds yet another heaven in thy delightful strain . Ah ! could'st thou here thy humble mind content Lowly with me to live in country cell , And learn suspect the court's proud blandishment ...
... courts surveys ; and now , come back again , Finds yet another heaven in thy delightful strain . Ah ! could'st thou here thy humble mind content Lowly with me to live in country cell , And learn suspect the court's proud blandishment ...
Page 59
... court , and afterwards to his native country , where he married , and was in 1626 made a baronet . " The former part of his " life , " says Wood , " he successfully employed in poetry , " and the latter he as happily bestowed on more ...
... court , and afterwards to his native country , where he married , and was in 1626 made a baronet . " The former part of his " life , " says Wood , " he successfully employed in poetry , " and the latter he as happily bestowed on more ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Admet Æneid Anon Beaumont and Fletcher beauty beauty's Biographia Dramatica birds born breast breath Carew Castara chaste Chloris Corpus Christi College court Cupid dear death delight died disdain dost doth earth Edgar Atheling English Exeter College extracted eyes fair fancy fate fear flame Fletcher flowers folly FRANCIS BEAUMONT GILES FLETCHER grace grief happy hath hear heart heaven honour joys king kiss Laius language leave lips live lord lov'd Love's Love's cruelty lover maid melancholy mind miscellany mistress morning Muses ne'er never night nymph o'er Oxford passion Phillis Picts pleasure poems poet poetry praise printed reign rose Saxon says Wood scorn Scotland Sedley sighs sing smile SONG SONNET sorrow soul specimen spring stanzas star sweet taste tears tell thee thine thing THOMAS NABBES thou art thought unto wanton weep Whilst wind wings youth