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... Master Stephen . Ben Jonson . 193 Ben Jonson . 194 Ben Jonson . 195 · · Ben Jonson . 196 · Wotton • 197 · Wotton . 197 • Quarles 198 · • • Lovelace . . 199 The Character of a Happy Life . You meaner Beauties of the Night . The Poverty ...
... Master Stephen . Ben Jonson . 193 Ben Jonson . 194 Ben Jonson . 195 · · Ben Jonson . 196 · Wotton • 197 · Wotton . 197 • Quarles 198 · • • Lovelace . . 199 The Character of a Happy Life . You meaner Beauties of the Night . The Poverty ...
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... master's care ; The wicket , opening with a latch . Received the harmless pair . 55 35 And now , when busy crowds retire To take their evening rest , The Hermit trimm'd his little fire , And cheer'd his pensive guest And spread his ...
... master's care ; The wicket , opening with a latch . Received the harmless pair . 55 35 And now , when busy crowds retire To take their evening rest , The Hermit trimm'd his little fire , And cheer'd his pensive guest And spread his ...
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... masters , iron - hearted , Lolling at your jovial boards ; Think how many backs have smarted For the sweet your cane affords . ls there , as ye sometimes tell us , Is there One who reigns on high ? Has He bid you buy and sell us ...
... masters , iron - hearted , Lolling at your jovial boards ; Think how many backs have smarted For the sweet your cane affords . ls there , as ye sometimes tell us , Is there One who reigns on high ? Has He bid you buy and sell us ...
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... master ' gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been , To see , whatever could be seen . Returning from his finish'd tour , Grown ten times perter than before , 5 Whatever word you chance to drop , The travell'd fool THE ...
... master ' gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been , To see , whatever could be seen . Returning from his finish'd tour , Grown ten times perter than before , 5 Whatever word you chance to drop , The travell'd fool THE ...
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... master of the dome Still made his house the wandering stranger's home : 50 Yet still the kindness , from a thirst of praise , Proved the vain flourish of expensive ease . The pair arrive : the liveried servants wait ; Their lord ...
... master of the dome Still made his house the wandering stranger's home : 50 Yet still the kindness , from a thirst of praise , Proved the vain flourish of expensive ease . The pair arrive : the liveried servants wait ; Their lord ...
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Page 106 - Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 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...
Page 143 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 144 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 53 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, 'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Page 256 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 75 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 232 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.
Page 141 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered : We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition : And gentlemen in England, now a-bed, Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here ; And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks That fought with us upon saint...
Page 256 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 109 - Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With...