The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... turn to do as did your mothers ? Or have you all old vices worn , and now would find out others ? Or doth a fear that men are true torment you ? Oh ! we are not , be not you fo ; Let me , and do you twenty know . Rob me , but bind me ...
... turn to do as did your mothers ? Or have you all old vices worn , and now would find out others ? Or doth a fear that men are true torment you ? Oh ! we are not , be not you fo ; Let me , and do you twenty know . Rob me , but bind me ...
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... turn my back to thee , but to receive Corrections , till thy mercies bid thee leave . O think me worth thine anger ; punish me , Burn off my ruft , and my deformity ; Reftore thine image fo much by thy grace , That thou may'st know me ...
... turn my back to thee , but to receive Corrections , till thy mercies bid thee leave . O think me worth thine anger ; punish me , Burn off my ruft , and my deformity ; Reftore thine image fo much by thy grace , That thou may'st know me ...
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... turn away fometimes , They never will defpife . I facrifice this ifland unto thee , And all whom I love here , and who love me ; When I have put this flood ' twixt them and me , Fut thou thy blood betwixt my fins and thee . As the ...
... turn away fometimes , They never will defpife . I facrifice this ifland unto thee , And all whom I love here , and who love me ; When I have put this flood ' twixt them and me , Fut thou thy blood betwixt my fins and thee . As the ...
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... turn The wall and rampart , which together mourn . 9. The gates are funk unto the ground , and he Hath broke the bar ; their kings and princes be Amongst the heathen without law , nor there Unto the prophets doth the Lord appear . 10 ...
... turn The wall and rampart , which together mourn . 9. The gates are funk unto the ground , and he Hath broke the bar ; their kings and princes be Amongst the heathen without law , nor there Unto the prophets doth the Lord appear . 10 ...
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... turn'd my 10. And like a lion bid in fecrecy , Or bear , which lies in wait , he was to me . 11. He ftops my way , tears the , made defolate ; 12. And he makes me the mark he fhooteth at . 13. He made the children of his quiver pafs ...
... turn'd my 10. And like a lion bid in fecrecy , Or bear , which lies in wait , he was to me . 11. He ftops my way , tears the , made defolate ; 12. And he makes me the mark he fhooteth at . 13. He made the children of his quiver pafs ...
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Page 537 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 536 - While we can, the sports of love. Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again: But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night.
Page 590 - IF I freely may discover What would please me in my lover, I would have her fair and witty, Savouring more of court than city ; A little proud, but full of pity ; Light and humorous in her toying ; Oft...
Page 533 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 33 - When my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain (For graves have learned that womanhead To be to more than one a bed), And he that digs it spies A bracelet of bright hair about the bone...
Page 543 - No, Both wills were in one stature ; And as that wisdom had decreed, The Word was now made Flesh indeed, And took on him our nature. What comfort by Him do we win, Who made Himself the price of sin, To make us heirs of Glory ! To see this babe, all innocence, A martyr born in our defence : Can man forget this...
Page 590 - Though I am young and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet, I have heard they both bear darts, And both do aim at human hearts : And then again, I have been told, Love wounds with heat, as Death with cold ; So that I fear they do but bring Extremes to touch, and mean one thing. As in a ruin we it call One thing to be blown up or fall ; Or to our end, like way may have By...
Page 30 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 23 - Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys and sour prentices; Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride, Call country ants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Page 518 - Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father, now! For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace; and, asked, say: Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry...