Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volumes 1-2Robert Chambers J.B. Alden, 1885 - English literature |
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... doth eat . Their neighbours die for meat- What care they though Gill sweat , Or Jack of the Noke ? The poor people they yoke With summons and citations And excommunications , About churches and market : The bishop on his carpet Full soft ...
... doth eat . Their neighbours die for meat- What care they though Gill sweat , Or Jack of the Noke ? The poor people they yoke With summons and citations And excommunications , About churches and market : The bishop on his carpet Full soft ...
Page 67
... doth face Wild Camber's cliffs , did give her lively heat : Fostered she was with milk of Irish breast ; Her sire , an earl ; her dame of princes ' blood : From tender years , in Britain doth she rest With king's child , where she ...
... doth face Wild Camber's cliffs , did give her lively heat : Fostered she was with milk of Irish breast ; Her sire , an earl ; her dame of princes ' blood : From tender years , in Britain doth she rest With king's child , where she ...
Page 69
... Doth ever seek to change . Thus thoughtful as I lay , I saw my withered skin , How it doth shew my dented thews , The flesh was worn so thin ; And eke my toothless chaps , The gates of my right way , That opes and shuts as I do speak ...
... Doth ever seek to change . Thus thoughtful as I lay , I saw my withered skin , How it doth shew my dented thews , The flesh was worn so thin ; And eke my toothless chaps , The gates of my right way , That opes and shuts as I do speak ...
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... doth use , Is mixed with shamefastness ; All vice she wholly doth refuse , And hateth idleness . O Lord , it is a world to see How virtue can repair , And deck her in such modesty , Whom nature made so fair ! Truly she doth as far excel ...
... doth use , Is mixed with shamefastness ; All vice she wholly doth refuse , And hateth idleness . O Lord , it is a world to see How virtue can repair , And deck her in such modesty , Whom nature made so fair ! Truly she doth as far excel ...
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... doth plainly prove . And as for your hus- bandry , it was more probably told with apt words , proper to the thing , than thor- oughly proved with reasons belonging to our matter . For , contrarywise , I heard myself a good husband at ...
... doth plainly prove . And as for your hus- bandry , it was more probably told with apt words , proper to the thing , than thor- oughly proved with reasons belonging to our matter . For , contrarywise , I heard myself a good husband at ...
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afterwards beauty Ben Jonson blank verse born breast Cæsar called character Charles Lamb Chaucer court death delight doth drama dramatist Earl earth Elizabeth England English eyes Faery Queen fair father Faustus fear flowers gentle Giles Fletcher give grace gude hand hast hath hear heart heaven Henry Henry VIII honour James John Jonson king king's labour lady language learning live look Lord Macbeth Marlowe Master merry mind nature never night noble nought Nut-brown Maid passion play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor praise pray prince published Queen quoth Raleigh reign rich satire sche Scotland Scottish Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew sing Sir Patrick Spens Sir Philip Sidney sleep song sonnets soul Spenser spirit style sweet tears tell thee things thou art thought tragedy translation unto verse virtue words write wrote young youth