Collectanea Anglo-poetica, Or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue of a Portion of a Collection of Early English Poetry, with Occasional Extracts and Remarks Biographical and Critical, Part 10Chetham Society, 1880 - English poetry |
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Page 337 - I saw the world and yet I was not seen ; My thread is cut and yet it is not spun, And now I live, and now my life is done. I sought my death and found it in my womb, I looked for life and saw it was a shade, I trod the earth and knew it was my tomb, And now I die, and now I was but made; My glass is full, and now my glass is run. And now I live, and now my life is done.
Page 209 - The Phoenix Nest. Built vp with the most rare and refined workes of Noble men, woorthy Knights, gallant Gentlemen, Masters of Arts, and braue Schollars. Full of varietie, excellent inuentions, and singular delight. Neuer before this time published. Set foorth by RS of the Inner Temple Gentleman.
Page 254 - And because the best course to let them see the errour of their workes, is to weave a new webbe in their owne loome; I have heere layd a few course threds together, to invite some skillfuller wits to goe forward in the same, or to begin some finer peece, wherein it may be scene, how well verse and vertue sute together.
Page 297 - ... magicall inchantments, and then they put it by little and little into a frying pan of...
Page 211 - When he descended down the mount, His personage seemed most divine : A thousand graces one might count Upon his lovely cheerful eyne ; To hear him speak and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while.
Page 206 - A Theatre, wherein be represented as wel the miseries and calamities that follow the voluptuous worldlings as also the greate joyes and pleasures which the faitbfull do enjoy. An argument both profitable and delectable to all that sincerely love the Word of God. Devised, by S. John vander Noodt.
Page 297 - Shrove Tuesday, at whose entrance in the morning all the whole kingdom is inquiet ; but by that time the clocke strikes eleven, which (by the help of a knavish sexton) is commonly before nine, then there is a bell rung, cal'd the pancake bell, the sound whereof makes thousands of people distracted, and forgetful either of manners or humanitie...
Page 267 - Death : or a Consolatorie Epistle, for afflicted minds, in the affects of dying friends. First written for the consolation of one : but nowe published for the generall good of all, by RS the Authour of S.
Page 233 - Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick. Six books, also the Socratick Session, or The Arraignment and Conviction, of Julius Scaliger, with other Select Poems. By S. Sheppard.
Page 259 - His poems, all of which are on moral or religious subjects, are far from deserving the neglect which they have experienced. It is remarkable, that the few copies of his works which are now known to exist, are the remnant of at least twenty-four different editions, of which eleven were printed between 1593 and 1600.