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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Page 113
... passed the short remainder of his life in study and in the business of a country gentle- man . He died in his thirty - ninth year of a malignant fever , caught by overheating and fatiguing himself in riding to meet the Spanish ...
... passed the short remainder of his life in study and in the business of a country gentle- man . He died in his thirty - ninth year of a malignant fever , caught by overheating and fatiguing himself in riding to meet the Spanish ...
Page 117
... passing sweet and harmonical , -which figure being , as its very original name purporteth , the most beautifull and gorgeous of all others , it asketh in reason to be reserved for QUEEN ELIZABETH . 117 QUEEN ELIZABETH ...............
... passing sweet and harmonical , -which figure being , as its very original name purporteth , the most beautifull and gorgeous of all others , it asketh in reason to be reserved for QUEEN ELIZABETH . 117 QUEEN ELIZABETH ...............
Page 128
... passing persant , and so wondrous bright , That quite bereav'd the rash beholders sight : In them the blinded god his lustfull fyre To kindle oft assayd , but had no might ; For , with dredd majestie and awfull yre , She broke his ...
... passing persant , and so wondrous bright , That quite bereav'd the rash beholders sight : In them the blinded god his lustfull fyre To kindle oft assayd , but had no might ; For , with dredd majestie and awfull yre , She broke his ...
Page 132
... passing of a day , Of mortall life the leafe , the bud , the flowre ; Ne more doth florish after first decay , That earst was sought to deck both bed and bowre Of many a lady , and many a paramowre ! Gather therefore the rose whilest ...
... passing of a day , Of mortall life the leafe , the bud , the flowre ; Ne more doth florish after first decay , That earst was sought to deck both bed and bowre Of many a lady , and many a paramowre ! Gather therefore the rose whilest ...
Page 173
... passing strange ; yet such is the fact , and it may be whole- some to record it . The age of Shakspeare was an age highly poetical ; yet even the slender popularity he enjoyed , not more than Mr Reynolds or Mr Kenny does now , declined ...
... passing strange ; yet such is the fact , and it may be whole- some to record it . The age of Shakspeare was an age highly poetical ; yet even the slender popularity he enjoyed , not more than Mr Reynolds or Mr Kenny does now , declined ...
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