The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I.Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson & Company, Cheapside, London, 1820 - English poetry |
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... liues . I held in armes my true and dearest loue , Thinking with her to end my lothed life , When suddenly we were by fate ... liue ? These twinding armes caught hold vpon a boord Which drew me to this life - preseruing rocke . " ELLIOT ...
... liues . I held in armes my true and dearest loue , Thinking with her to end my lothed life , When suddenly we were by fate ... liue ? These twinding armes caught hold vpon a boord Which drew me to this life - preseruing rocke . " ELLIOT ...
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... liue ? " Thus furiously she begins : you will observe that Flora answers to Shakespeare's Perdita ; and nothing is easier than to imagine the four lines I have just read , put into the mouth of the delicate and un- conscious princess ...
... liue ? " Thus furiously she begins : you will observe that Flora answers to Shakespeare's Perdita ; and nothing is easier than to imagine the four lines I have just read , put into the mouth of the delicate and un- conscious princess ...
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... liue , Yet they rejoic'd to see her so depart As in her death they saw a present life . " For at her death she did remember well Both what concern'd her soule , her heauenly state , And how she must depart without delay ; And when her ...
... liue , Yet they rejoic'd to see her so depart As in her death they saw a present life . " For at her death she did remember well Both what concern'd her soule , her heauenly state , And how she must depart without delay ; And when her ...
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... thee ; Thy vntruth can not seem strange When her falshood doth excuse thee . Loue is dead and thou art free , She doth liue , but dead to thee . " VOL . I. M ELLIOT . It runs with as much smoothness , and THIRD CONVERSATION . 161.
... thee ; Thy vntruth can not seem strange When her falshood doth excuse thee . Loue is dead and thou art free , She doth liue , but dead to thee . " VOL . I. M ELLIOT . It runs with as much smoothness , and THIRD CONVERSATION . 161.
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... liued in elder times , hee would haue shamed all the Inchanters of the World : for who- soeuer was most famous among them , could neuer master or instruct any Beast as he did his Horse . " ELLIOT . That is remarkable . - But what has be ...
... liued in elder times , hee would haue shamed all the Inchanters of the World : for who- soeuer was most famous among them , could neuer master or instruct any Beast as he did his Horse . " ELLIOT . That is remarkable . - But what has be ...
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