The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, Volume 5Edward Bull, 1834 - English literature |
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Page 198 - Thou hast thy walks for health, as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made, Beneath the broad beech and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth where all the Muses met.
Page 198 - Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 76 - Let there be light, said GOD, and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep, and from her native east To journey through the...
Page 198 - Thou blind man's mark, thou fool's self-chosen snare. Fond fancy's scum, and dregs of scattered thought : Band of all evils ; cradle of causeless care ; Thou web of will, whose end is never wrought : Desire ! Desire ! I have too dearly bought, With price of mangled mind, thy worthless ware ; Too long, too long, asleep thou hast me brought, Who should my mind to higher things prepare.
Page 141 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Page 120 - A Shape all light, which with one hand did fling Dew on the earth, as if she were the dawn, And the invisible rain did ever sing ' ' A silver music on the mossy lawn ; And still before me on the dusky grass Iris her many-coloured scarf had drawn.
Page 198 - ... young gentlemen of our court do form also their " manners and life by. In truth I speak it without " flattery of him or myself, he hath the most virtues that ,
Page 135 - Do they chafe roundly ? And. As they were rubb'd with soap, sir : And now they swear aloud, now calm again, Like a ring of bells, whose sound the wind still alters ; And then they sit in council what to do, And then they jar again what shall be done.
Page 108 - April, 1681, being then nine years of age, he was elected a knight companion of the most noble order of the Garter, and installed at Windsor on the 20th of the same month.
Page 9 - ... their frantic females throw These galling taunts around : " Make now your choice — the terms we give, Desponding victims, hear : These fetters on your hands receive, Or in your hearts the spear.