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... doth pro- duce , But autumn makes them ripe , and fit for use : So age a mature mellowness doth set On the green promises of youthful heat . SIR J. DENHAM . Age , like ripe apples , on earth's bosom drops ; While force our youth , like ...
... doth pro- duce , But autumn makes them ripe , and fit for use : So age a mature mellowness doth set On the green promises of youthful heat . SIR J. DENHAM . Age , like ripe apples , on earth's bosom drops ; While force our youth , like ...
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... doth yield the bravest fire , When younger doth in smoke his virtue spend . SIR P. SIDNEY . From pert to stupid sinks supinely down , In youth a coxcomb , and in age a clown . SPECTATOR . Dotard , said he , let be thy deep advise ...
... doth yield the bravest fire , When younger doth in smoke his virtue spend . SIR P. SIDNEY . From pert to stupid sinks supinely down , In youth a coxcomb , and in age a clown . SPECTATOR . Dotard , said he , let be thy deep advise ...
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... doth not love . TUSSER . Plough - Monday next after that the twelftide is past , Bids out with the plough , the worst husband is last . TUSSER . At Midsummer down with the brambles and brakes , And after abroad with thy forks and thy ...
... doth not love . TUSSER . Plough - Monday next after that the twelftide is past , Bids out with the plough , the worst husband is last . TUSSER . At Midsummer down with the brambles and brakes , And after abroad with thy forks and thy ...
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... Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight , And should , if I were worthy to be judge , Be quite degraded , like a hedge - born swain , That doth presume to boast of gentle blood . SHAKSPEARE . Howe'er it be , it seems to me ' Tis only ...
... Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight , And should , if I were worthy to be judge , Be quite degraded , like a hedge - born swain , That doth presume to boast of gentle blood . SHAKSPEARE . Howe'er it be , it seems to me ' Tis only ...
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... doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair , but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live . SHAKSPEARE . SHAKSPEARE . A combination and a form indeed Where every god ...
... doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair , but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live . SHAKSPEARE . SHAKSPEARE . A combination and a form indeed Where every god ...
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ADDISON ANNE BRADSTREET beauty BEN JONSON birds BLACKMORE bless bliss breast breath bright BYRON charms Childe Harold clouds coursers COWLEY COWPER dark death delight DENHAM doth dreams DRYDEN earth eternal ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fear flowers fools gentle give glory golden grace grief happy hast hath heart heaven honour hope hour Hudibras ISAAC WATTS JOANNA BAILLIE king light live look Lord MILTON mind morning muse N. P. WILLIS nature ne'er never Night Thoughts numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace pleasure POPE pow'r praise pride PRIOR rich ROSCOMMON round shade SHAKSPEARE shine sing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul SPENSER spirit spring stars stream sweet SWIFT tears thee thine things THOMSON thou trees truth virtue voice WALLER WALTER HARTE weep wind wings wise woman words YOUNG youth