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" ... the wood, That warble forth Dame Nature's lays, Thinking your passions understood By your weak accents; what's your praise, When Philomel her voice shall raise? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins... "
Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives of Or ... - Page 215
by Rowland Freeman - 1821
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The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr ...

Izaak Walton - 1825 - 564 pages
...Philomel her voice doth ratief So, when my Princesse shall be seen. In sweetnesse of her lookes and mlnde. By Virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me if she were not design'd Tli' eclipse and glory of her kind] It would be of little interest to add here all the variations...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Walton's Lives

English literature - 1832 - 336 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? " So, when my...choice a Queen, Tell me, if she were not designed The eclipse and glory of her kind." Page 161. The Bishop ofSpalatro. Marcus Antonius de Dominis, Archbishop...
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The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Volume 1

Izaak Walton - 1832 - 330 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? " So, when my...choice a Queen, Tell me, if she were not designed The eclipse and glory of her kind." Page 161. The Bishop of SpaJatro. Marcus Antonius de Dominis, Archbishop...
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The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Volume 1

Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? -•' So, when...shall be seen, In form and beauty of her mind, By virtuei first, then choice a Queen, Tell me, if she were not designed The eclipse and glory of her...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...waves and weathers of time. Bacon. So when my Princess had been seta, In sweetness of her looks and mind, By Virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind? — Sir Henrg Wotton. Day. Idus. 13. Btrtfis. Card. Aleander,...
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The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, Volume 2

English literature - 1833 - 388 pages
...Philomel lier voice shall raise ? So when my mistress shall be seen In sweetness of lier looks and mind ; By virtue first, then choice, a queen ; Tell me, if she was not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? We should like to see the following ditty set...
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The songs of England and Scotland

England - 1835 - 794 pages
...When Philomel her voice shall raise? So, when my mistress shall be seen In sweetness of her looks and mind ; By virtue first, then choice a queen ; Tell me, if she was not desi^u'd Th* eclipse and glory of her kind ? [" Written, on that amiable princess, Elizabeth,...
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A Garland of Love, Wreathed of Pleasant Flowers, Gathered in the Field of ...

Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ! What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my...first, then choice, a queen ! Tell me if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? WILLIAM SMITH, Born about 1571, died — . SONNET. THY...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In sweetness of her looks and mind, By vertue first, then choice a queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd...
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Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts ..., Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 424 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my...first, then choice a queen ; Tell me if she were not design'd The eclipse and glory of her kind.t * Mr. Joseph Meade to Sir Martin Stuteville.— Harl....
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