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Page 78
... fear sweet sounds ? a lady's voice Say , you would have my life ; Whom I do love ? Why , I will give it you ; for ' tis to me A thing so loathed , and unto you that ask Of so poor use , that I shall make no price : If you entreat , I ...
... fear sweet sounds ? a lady's voice Say , you would have my life ; Whom I do love ? Why , I will give it you ; for ' tis to me A thing so loathed , and unto you that ask Of so poor use , that I shall make no price : If you entreat , I ...
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... fear not , my misery cannot bee greater than it is , and nothing doth becom me but misery : fear not the danger of my blinde steps , I cannot fall wors than I am : and do not , I pray thee , do not obstinately continue to infect thee ...
... fear not , my misery cannot bee greater than it is , and nothing doth becom me but misery : fear not the danger of my blinde steps , I cannot fall wors than I am : and do not , I pray thee , do not obstinately continue to infect thee ...
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... fear . This old man ( whom I lead ) was lately rightfull Prince of this countrie of Paphlagonia , by the hard - hearted un- gratefulness of a son of his , deprived not onely of his kingdom ( whereof no forrain forces were ever able to ...
... fear . This old man ( whom I lead ) was lately rightfull Prince of this countrie of Paphlagonia , by the hard - hearted un- gratefulness of a son of his , deprived not onely of his kingdom ( whereof no forrain forces were ever able to ...
Page 86
... fears and dis- tastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes . We see in needleworks and embroideries , it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground , than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a ...
... fears and dis- tastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes . We see in needleworks and embroideries , it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground , than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a ...
Page 117
... fear , yet still affecting fame , Usurp'd a patriot's all - atoning name . So easy still it proves in factious times , With public zeal to cancel private crimes . How safe is treason , and how sacred ill , Where none can sin against the ...
... fear , yet still affecting fame , Usurp'd a patriot's all - atoning name . So easy still it proves in factious times , With public zeal to cancel private crimes . How safe is treason , and how sacred ill , Where none can sin against the ...
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Page 265 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 274 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 69 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 225 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 69 - I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since...
Page 69 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 210 - The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 158 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le...
Page 69 - When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope.
Page 296 - Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in His hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God; see all, nor be afraid!