Choyce Drollery: Songs & Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent AuthorsJoseph Woodfall Ebsworth |
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... verse , from no common hireling pen , but of some scholar like unto Henry King , of Chichester , the loyal " New - Year's Wish " ( p . 48 ) presented to King Charles at the beginning of 1638 , when the North was already in rebellion ...
... verse , from no common hireling pen , but of some scholar like unto Henry King , of Chichester , the loyal " New - Year's Wish " ( p . 48 ) presented to King Charles at the beginning of 1638 , when the North was already in rebellion ...
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... , while she held her infant in her arms , in 1642 , was no less fascinating than she had been in her virgin bloom . The airy trifling , dallying with conceits in verse , that spoke of a refinement INTRODUCTION . xxix .
... , while she held her infant in her arms , in 1642 , was no less fascinating than she had been in her virgin bloom . The airy trifling , dallying with conceits in verse , that spoke of a refinement INTRODUCTION . xxix .
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... verse , that spoke of a refinement and graceful idlesse more than passionate warmth , gave us these relics of such men as Thomas Carew , who died in 1638 , before the Court dissolved into a Camp . Some of them recal the strains of ...
... verse , that spoke of a refinement and graceful idlesse more than passionate warmth , gave us these relics of such men as Thomas Carew , who died in 1638 , before the Court dissolved into a Camp . Some of them recal the strains of ...
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... verse : - " How sweet these solitary places are ! how wantonly The wind blows through the leaves , and courts and plays with ' em ! Will you sit down , and sleep ? The heat invites you . Hark , how yon purling stream dances and murmurs ...
... verse : - " How sweet these solitary places are ! how wantonly The wind blows through the leaves , and courts and plays with ' em ! Will you sit down , and sleep ? The heat invites you . Hark , how yon purling stream dances and murmurs ...
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... verse and prose : Whose easie Pegassus will amble ore Some threescore miles of Fancy in an houre ; Cloud - grapling Chapman , whose Aerial minde Soares at Philosophy , and strikes it blinde ; Danbourn [ Dabourn ] I had forgot , and let ...
... verse and prose : Whose easie Pegassus will amble ore Some threescore miles of Fancy in an houre ; Cloud - grapling Chapman , whose Aerial minde Soares at Philosophy , and strikes it blinde ; Danbourn [ Dabourn ] I had forgot , and let ...
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