Choyce Drollery: Songs & Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent AuthorsJoseph Woodfall Ebsworth |
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... telling of hollowness and insecurity below . They were already suspicious among them- selves , no longer hiding personal spites and jealousies , the separate ambition of uncongenial factions , which had only united for a season against ...
... telling of hollowness and insecurity below . They were already suspicious among them- selves , no longer hiding personal spites and jealousies , the separate ambition of uncongenial factions , which had only united for a season against ...
Page xxxiv
... tell of tender passion through a rustic pipe . The contrast of a wimpling brook , birds twittering on the spray , and daintiest hint of hay - forks or of reaping - hooks , enhanced with piquancy , no doubt , the every - day delights of ...
... tell of tender passion through a rustic pipe . The contrast of a wimpling brook , birds twittering on the spray , and daintiest hint of hay - forks or of reaping - hooks , enhanced with piquancy , no doubt , the every - day delights of ...
Page xxxvii
... tell its beauty were men unto whom Fortune seldom offered gifts , as though it were she envied them for having better treasure in their birthright of imagination . The dull , harsh , and uncongenial time intensified their visions : even ...
... tell its beauty were men unto whom Fortune seldom offered gifts , as though it were she envied them for having better treasure in their birthright of imagination . The dull , harsh , and uncongenial time intensified their visions : even ...
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... day we will him dresse , At least in beaten Sattin , And he shall tell her from this bench , That though we understand no French , At Pauls she may hear Lattin . But 28 . But on this point they all demurre , 26 Choice Drollery ,
... day we will him dresse , At least in beaten Sattin , And he shall tell her from this bench , That though we understand no French , At Pauls she may hear Lattin . But 28 . But on this point they all demurre , 26 Choice Drollery ,
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... and all these Peeres , Ile be no more uncivill , Ile leave the Mayor with both the Sheriffs , With Sergeants , hanging at their sleeves , For this time at the Devill . A A A SONG . Story strange I will you tell 30 Choice Drollery ,
... and all these Peeres , Ile be no more uncivill , Ile leave the Mayor with both the Sheriffs , With Sergeants , hanging at their sleeves , For this time at the Devill . A A A SONG . Story strange I will you tell 30 Choice Drollery ,
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