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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400 - Page 106
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Specimens of English Sonnets

Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 240 pages
...most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, — and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. WHEN to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 45

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1835 - 570 pages
...most enjoy contented least : Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, — and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day...sings hymns at heaven's gate ; For thy sweet love remember 'd such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings t." What manner of...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 19

Robert Walsh - 1836 - 530 pages
...I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee. And then my state (Like to the lark at break of day...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." We make no apology for transcribing from the same collection another specimen, in which the reader...
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Characters of Shakespear's plays

William Hazlitt - 1838 - 360 pages
...most enjoy contented least : Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, — and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day...sings hymns at heaven's gate : For thy sweet love remember'J, such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings." NOVELTY. f " My love...
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Chefs-d'œuvre de Shakespeare ..: Richard III, Roméo et Juliette et Le ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 714 pages
...aud that man's scepe ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee,—and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day arising...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. amis, cachés dans la nuit interminable de la mort(l); mais il n'en nomme aucun : il rougit de sa profession...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 10; Volume 74

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1841 - 778 pages
...most enjoy contented least: v Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee — and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day...That then I scorn to change my state with kings.' — p. 24. The sonnets of Spenser might be more admired, had his fame rested upon them alone, but his...
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The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved ..., Volume 15

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 338 pages
...most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee ; and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. XXX. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, Peep. I sigh...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1843 - 594 pages
...most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state ( Like to the lark at break of day...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. 7 When sparkling stars TWIRE not, thou GILD'ST the even :] To " twire " occurs in Chaucer, in the sense...
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 596 pages
...most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. 7 When sparkling stars TWJRE not, thou GILD'ST the even:] To "twire" occurs in Chaucer, in the sense...
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William Shakspere: A Biography, Book 2

Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, — and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." Sonnets of Shakspere were in existence in 1598, when Meres tells us of" his sugared sonnets among his...
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