Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 1William and Robert Chambers, 1843 - English literature |
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... breath : But on his lady yet cast he his eye ; His laste word was , ' Mercy , Emily ! ' . [ Departure of Custance . ] [ Custance is banished from her husband , Alla , king of Nor- thumberland , in consequence of the treachery of the ...
... breath : But on his lady yet cast he his eye ; His laste word was , ' Mercy , Emily ! ' . [ Departure of Custance . ] [ Custance is banished from her husband , Alla , king of Nor- thumberland , in consequence of the treachery of the ...
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... breath , foul art thou to embrace ; And through thy drunken nose seemeth the soun As though thou saidést aye Sampsoun ! Sampsoun ! And yet , Got wot , Sampsoun drunk ne'er no wine : Thou fallest as it were a stickéd swine ; Thy tongue ...
... breath , foul art thou to embrace ; And through thy drunken nose seemeth the soun As though thou saidést aye Sampsoun ! Sampsoun ! And yet , Got wot , Sampsoun drunk ne'er no wine : Thou fallest as it were a stickéd swine ; Thy tongue ...
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... breath in singing or crying . The entrails , which be underneath the midriff , be exercised by blowing either by constraint or playing on shalms or sackbuts , or other like instruments which do re- quire much wind . The muscles are best ...
... breath in singing or crying . The entrails , which be underneath the midriff , be exercised by blowing either by constraint or playing on shalms or sackbuts , or other like instruments which do re- quire much wind . The muscles are best ...
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... breath ; Small keep took he , whom fortune frowned on , Or whom she lifted up into the throne Of high renown , but , as a living death , So dead alive , of life he drew the breath : The body's rest , the quiet of the heart , The ...
... breath ; Small keep took he , whom fortune frowned on , Or whom she lifted up into the throne Of high renown , but , as a living death , So dead alive , of life he drew the breath : The body's rest , the quiet of the heart , The ...
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... breath : And , by and by , a dumb dead corpse we saw , Heavy , and cold , the shape of Death aright , That daunts all earthly creatures to his law , Against whose force in vain it is to fight ; Ne peers , ne princes , nor no mortal ...
... breath : And , by and by , a dumb dead corpse we saw , Heavy , and cold , the shape of Death aright , That daunts all earthly creatures to his law , Against whose force in vain it is to fight ; Ne peers , ne princes , nor no mortal ...
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Page 308 - replied, and touch'd my trembling ears; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in
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Page 169 - there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only
Page 306 - meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd
Page 188 - show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this— That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. Merchant
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Page 200 - Place«. » The Turk. Choice nymph ! the crown of chaste Diana's train, Thou beauty's lily, set in heavenly earth ; Thy fairs, uupattern'd, all perfection stain