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 |
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... It is fair beauty's freshest youth : It is the feigned Elysium's truth , The spring that winter'd hearts renew'th ; - And this is that my soul pursu❜th . GEORGE SANDYS , One of the most harmonious versifiers of THOMAS CAMPION . 23.
... It is fair beauty's freshest youth : It is the feigned Elysium's truth , The spring that winter'd hearts renew'th ; - And this is that my soul pursu❜th . GEORGE SANDYS , One of the most harmonious versifiers of THOMAS CAMPION . 23.
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... Youths , and virgins , flourishing In the beauty of your spring ; You who bow with age's weight , You who were but born of late ; Praise his name with one consent : O how great ! how excellent ! * * Urania to the Queen . [ Prefixed to ...
... Youths , and virgins , flourishing In the beauty of your spring ; You who bow with age's weight , You who were but born of late ; Praise his name with one consent : O how great ! how excellent ! * * Urania to the Queen . [ Prefixed to ...
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... youth , and brails the wings of Time . Here in Adonis ' gardens grow What neither age or winter know . The boy with whom Love seem'd to die Bleeds in this pale anemony . Self - lov'd Narcissus in the mirror Of your fair eyes now sees ...
... youth , and brails the wings of Time . Here in Adonis ' gardens grow What neither age or winter know . The boy with whom Love seem'd to die Bleeds in this pale anemony . Self - lov'd Narcissus in the mirror Of your fair eyes now sees ...
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... youth : he thirsts for age , He scorns to be his mother's page : But when proceeding times assuage The former heat , he will complain , And wish those pleasant hours again . We know that Hope and Love are twins ; Hope gone , fruition ...
... youth : he thirsts for age , He scorns to be his mother's page : But when proceeding times assuage The former heat , he will complain , And wish those pleasant hours again . We know that Hope and Love are twins ; Hope gone , fruition ...
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... these no other joys imply ? - A golden gyve , a pleasing wrong.- To be your own but one poor month , I'd give My youth , my fortune , and then leave to live . " FRANCIS BEAUMONT . A CHARM . [ From his " BEAUMONT AND FLETcher . 67.
... these no other joys imply ? - A golden gyve , a pleasing wrong.- To be your own but one poor month , I'd give My youth , my fortune , and then leave to live . " FRANCIS BEAUMONT . A CHARM . [ From his " BEAUMONT AND FLETcher . 67.
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