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... BEAUMONT & FLETCHER BEAUMONT , FRANCIS BENTLEY , RICHARD BENTHAM , JEREMY BERKELEY , BISHOP BICKERSTAFF , ISAAC BLACKER , COLONEL BLACKSTONE , SIR WM . BOLINGBROKE , VISCOUNT 359 CHURCHILL , CHARLES • 357 148 CLAY , HENRY . . 240 ...
... BEAUMONT & FLETCHER BEAUMONT , FRANCIS BENTLEY , RICHARD BENTHAM , JEREMY BERKELEY , BISHOP BICKERSTAFF , ISAAC BLACKER , COLONEL BLACKSTONE , SIR WM . BOLINGBROKE , VISCOUNT 359 CHURCHILL , CHARLES • 357 148 CLAY , HENRY . . 240 ...
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... Fletcher continued . Hence , all you vain delights , As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's naught in this life sweet , If man were wise to ... Beaumont and Fletcher . 149 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER . A 148 Beaumont .
... Fletcher continued . Hence , all you vain delights , As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's naught in this life sweet , If man were wise to ... Beaumont and Fletcher . 149 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER . A 148 Beaumont .
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... Beaumont and Fletcher . 149 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER . A soul as white as heaven . The Maid's Tragedy . Activ . Sc . 1 . There is a method in man's wickedness , It grows up by degrees.1 A King and no King . Act v . Sc . 4 . Calamity is ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher . 149 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER . A soul as white as heaven . The Maid's Tragedy . Activ . Sc . 1 . There is a method in man's wickedness , It grows up by degrees.1 A King and no King . Act v . Sc . 4 . Calamity is ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher continued . Primrose , first - born child of Ver , Merry spring - time's harbinger . The Two Noble Kinsmen . Act 1. Sc . 1 . O great corrector of enormous times , Shaker of o'er - rank states , thou grand decider ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher continued . Primrose , first - born child of Ver , Merry spring - time's harbinger . The Two Noble Kinsmen . Act 1. Sc . 1 . O great corrector of enormous times , Shaker of o'er - rank states , thou grand decider ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher , The Scornful Lady , Act v . Sc . 1 . ' leads the way , ' in the stage editions , which contain various interpolations , among them " See the conquering hero comes , Sound the trumpet , beat the drums . " 238 ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher , The Scornful Lady , Act v . Sc . 1 . ' leads the way , ' in the stage editions , which contain various interpolations , among them " See the conquering hero comes , Sound the trumpet , beat the drums . " 238 ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Acti angels Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Book breath Cæsar Canto Canto iii Childe Harold's Pilgrimage continued dead dear death divine doth dream Dryden Dunciad earth Eloisa to Abelard Epistle Epistle ii Epitaph Essay eyes fair fame fear feel flower fools give glory grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven Henry honour hope Hudibras Ibid JOHN Julius Cæsar King Lady Letter light Line live Lord lost mind morning nature ne'er never Night Night Thoughts numbers o'er Paradise Paradise Lost Parti peace pleasure poets Pope praise Prologue Prov rose Satire Shakespeare sigh sleep smile Song Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet tale tears thee There's thine things THOMAS thought truth unto viii virtue voice wind wise woman words young youth
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Page 299 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 95 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 508 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 78 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going ; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...
Page 99 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 213 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 56 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 27 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown: His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings. It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 440 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave; Think ye he meant them for a slave?
Page 107 - She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That Heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me ; And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.