The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 |
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... Never seen by any Writers on our Dramatic Poets . Carer Lady Elizabeth . Mariam , the Fair Queen of Jewry , her Tragedy . Carew Thomas , Elq ; His Poems , 3d Edit . Coelum Britannicum , a Mafque , 4to , 1613 8vo , 1651 at Whitehall ...
... Never seen by any Writers on our Dramatic Poets . Carer Lady Elizabeth . Mariam , the Fair Queen of Jewry , her Tragedy . Carew Thomas , Elq ; His Poems , 3d Edit . Coelum Britannicum , a Mafque , 4to , 1613 8vo , 1651 at Whitehall ...
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... never vex'd , a pleasant Comedy . 4to , 1632 Rowley Samuel , Gent . Noble Spanish Soldier ; or , A Contract broken juftly revenged , a Trag . 4to , 1634 Rutter Jofeph , Efq ; Shepherds Holiday , a Paftoral 8vo , 1635 Tra . Com . S ...
... never vex'd , a pleasant Comedy . 4to , 1632 Rowley Samuel , Gent . Noble Spanish Soldier ; or , A Contract broken juftly revenged , a Trag . 4to , 1634 Rutter Jofeph , Efq ; Shepherds Holiday , a Paftoral 8vo , 1635 Tra . Com . S ...
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... never call'd in doubt , That time their works fhould ever fo confound , Lie like confused heaps as under ground ; And what their ignorance esteem'd fo holy , The wifer ages do account as folly . Samuel Daniel's Rosamund ( Weary'd with ...
... never call'd in doubt , That time their works fhould ever fo confound , Lie like confused heaps as under ground ; And what their ignorance esteem'd fo holy , The wifer ages do account as folly . Samuel Daniel's Rosamund ( Weary'd with ...
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... never prophan'd this floor , Nor doth wrath here with his consuming voice Affright these buildings ; charity with prayer , Humility with abftinence combin'd , Are here the guardians of a grieved mind . Hoffman's Tragedy , ABSENCE . Like ...
... never prophan'd this floor , Nor doth wrath here with his consuming voice Affright these buildings ; charity with prayer , Humility with abftinence combin'd , Are here the guardians of a grieved mind . Hoffman's Tragedy , ABSENCE . Like ...
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... never fierce nor dull , In all her courfes ever at the full . George Chapman's Monfieur D'Oliv :. She is of the best blood , yet betters it With all the graces of an excellent spirit : Mild as the infant rofe , and innocent As when heav ...
... never fierce nor dull , In all her courfes ever at the full . George Chapman's Monfieur D'Oliv :. She is of the best blood , yet betters it With all the graces of an excellent spirit : Mild as the infant rofe , and innocent As when heav ...
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againſt Aleyn's Henry VII Antonio and Mellida Beaumont and Fletcher's beauty becauſe beft beſt Caligula Catiline caufe cauſe Chapman's court Crown's cuckold Cymbeline Cynthia's Revels Daniel's Davenant's Gondibert death defire doth ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe fair falfe fame fcorn fear feem fhall fhame fhew fince firft firſt fome fools foon fortune foul friendſhip ftand ftill fuch fure fweet Gondibert greateſt hath heart heav'n Henry VII himſelf honeft honour itſelf Johnson's juft Julius Cæfar King Henry VI lofe Lord Brook's Middleton's mind Mirror for Magiftrates moft moſt muft muſt never ourſelves Philotas Platonick Lovers pleaſure pow'r praiſe prince reafon reft Revenger's Tragedy ſeem Sejanus Shakespear's Shakespear's King ſhall ſhe Shirley's ſhould ſpeak Spenfer's Fairy Queen ſpirit ſtand ſtate Sterline's ſtill Tamburlaine thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou Trag Tragedy truft unto uſe virtue Whilft whofe whoſe wife
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Sida 28 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Sida 260 - And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Sida 73 - O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear: Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Sida 167 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Sida 43 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Sida 134 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not...
Sida 167 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Sida 209 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Sida 253 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume...
Sida 4 - 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