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" Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming ; Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming : If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city; Tell how the country erreth ; Tell... "
Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical ... - Page 336
by George Ellis - 1811
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Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1

George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 396 pages
...Schools the lie. 12 Tell Faith it's fled the city, Tell how the country erreth, Tell Manhood shakes off pity, Tell Virtue least preferreth ; And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. 13 And when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing, Although to give the lie Deserves no less...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...the city; Tell how the Country erreth; Toll Manhood, shakes orF pity; Tell Virtue, least preferretli. And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. So, when tliou hast, as I Commanded thce, done blabbing, Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 29-30

1861 - 790 pages
...all the lie. " Tell Faith it's fled the city, Tell how the country erreth, Tell manhood shakes off pity, Tell Virtue least preferreth ; And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. " And when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing, Although to give the lie Deserves no less...
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Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with biogr. notices ...

English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...schools the lie. Tell faith it fled the city, Tell how the country erreth, Tell, manhood shakes off pity, Tell, virtue least preferreth. And if they do...the lie Deserves no less than stabbing ; Yet stab at tbee who will, No stab the soul can kill. THE PILGRIMAGE. GIVE me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff...
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The poets of the Elizabethan age, a selection of their most celebrated songs ...

Elizabethan age - 1862 - 150 pages
...schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city, Tell how the country erreth, Tell, manhood shakes off pity, Tell, virtue least preferreth : And if they...Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing ; Stab at thee he that will, No stab the soul can kill. SIR WALTER KAI.KK-.II. SONNET. FAIR is my love,...
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English sacred poetry, of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and ...

Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pages
...them all the lie. Tell Faith it's fled the City ; tell how the country erreth; Tell Manhood shakes off pity ; tell Virtue least preferreth ; And if they...— Although to give the lie deserves no less than stubbing, — Stab at thee he that will, no stab the soul can kill. Walter Raleiyh AN ASPIRATION. RISE,...
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Miscellaneous Poems

J H. Moss - 1862 - 256 pages
...friendship of unkindness, tell justice of delay, And if they will reply, then give them all the lie ; And when thou hast, as I commanded thee, done blabbing,...stab at thee who will, no stab the soul can kill. THE MENDICANT. THE cold wintry snow flakes, around me are falling, The summer is over and gone, To...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1862 - 592 pages
...schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city ; Tell how the country erreth ; Tell, manhood shakes off pity ; Tell, virtue least preferreth : And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. So when thon hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing, Although to give the lie Deserve no less than stabbing,...
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Favourite English Poems: Chaucer to Pope, 1350-1700

English poetry - 1863 - 362 pages
...schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city; Tell how the country erreth ; Tell, manhood shakes off pity ; Tell, virtue least preferreth : And if they...Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing ; Stab at thee he that will, No stab the soul can kill. I MUST NOT GRIEVE. BY SAMUEL DANIEL. [SAMUEL...
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Half-hours with our sacred poets [an anthology] ed. by A.H. Grant

Half hours - 1863 - 408 pages
...Schools the' lie. Tell faith it's fled the city; Tell how the country erreth ; Tell, manhood shakes off pity; Tell, virtue least preferreth : And if they...Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing ; Stab at thce who that will, No stab the soul can kill ! EDMUND SPENSEE. (ABOUT 1553—1598-9.) EDMUND...
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