The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 |
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... ACTION . Away then , work with boldness , and with speed , On greatest actions greatest dangers feed . Chriftopher Marlee's Luft's Dominion . Checks and difafters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd ; As knots by the conflux of ...
... ACTION . Away then , work with boldness , and with speed , On greatest actions greatest dangers feed . Chriftopher Marlee's Luft's Dominion . Checks and difafters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd ; As knots by the conflux of ...
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... actions meet ; Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet . Dr. Donne , Things of this nature sprung When they mean action , muft ufe little tongue . Middleton's and Rowley's Fair Quarrel . Good actions crown themselves with lafting bays ...
... actions meet ; Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet . Dr. Donne , Things of this nature sprung When they mean action , muft ufe little tongue . Middleton's and Rowley's Fair Quarrel . Good actions crown themselves with lafting bays ...
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... action undertake . Hav'ng undertaken , thy endeavours bend To bring thy actions to a perfect end . Thomas Randolph . Time will be waited on by majefty ; ' Tis proper to an action , as place To bodies : When the winds are contrary , Wife ...
... action undertake . Hav'ng undertaken , thy endeavours bend To bring thy actions to a perfect end . Thomas Randolph . Time will be waited on by majefty ; ' Tis proper to an action , as place To bodies : When the winds are contrary , Wife ...
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... actions , but not fo ; The agents alter things ; and what does come , Pow'rful from thefe , flows weaker far from fome ; Thus the fun's light makes day , if it appear , And cafts true luftre round the hemisphere ; When if projected from ...
... actions , but not fo ; The agents alter things ; and what does come , Pow'rful from thefe , flows weaker far from fome ; Thus the fun's light makes day , if it appear , And cafts true luftre round the hemisphere ; When if projected from ...
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William Oldys. Great actions lefs from courage , ftrength , and speed , Than from wife councils and commands proceed . Sir John Denham . Be juft in all thy actions , and if join'd With those that are not , never change thy mind : If ...
William Oldys. Great actions lefs from courage , ftrength , and speed , Than from wife councils and commands proceed . Sir John Denham . Be juft in all thy actions , and if join'd With those that are not , never change thy mind : If ...
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Page 28 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Page 260 - And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 73 - O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear: Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Page 167 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 43 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 134 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not...
Page 167 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Page 209 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 253 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume...
Page 4 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th