The Life of Andrew Marvell, the Celebrated Patriot: With Extracts and Selections from His Prose and Poetical WorksSimpkin and Marshall, 1832 - 116 pages |
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... tear all his lands in pieces . The House of Commons has run almost to the end of their time , and are grown extremely chargeable to the King , and odious to the people . They have signed and sealed £ 10,000 . a year more to the DUTCHESS ...
... tear all his lands in pieces . The House of Commons has run almost to the end of their time , and are grown extremely chargeable to the King , and odious to the people . They have signed and sealed £ 10,000 . a year more to the DUTCHESS ...
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... tears ; and especially when it runs in a blood . And I myself could sooner imitate than blame those innocent relentings of nature , so that they spring from tenderness only , and humanity , not from an im- placable sorrow . The tears of ...
... tears ; and especially when it runs in a blood . And I myself could sooner imitate than blame those innocent relentings of nature , so that they spring from tenderness only , and humanity , not from an im- placable sorrow . The tears of ...
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... tears , Rather than fail . It cannot die so . But , O my fears ! Heaven's king Keeps register of every thing ; And nothing may we use in vain , Ev'n beasts must be with justice slain ; Else men are made their deodands . Though they ...
... tears , Rather than fail . It cannot die so . But , O my fears ! Heaven's king Keeps register of every thing ; And nothing may we use in vain , Ev'n beasts must be with justice slain ; Else men are made their deodands . Though they ...
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... tears do come Sad , slowly , dropping like a gum . So weeps the wounded balsam , so The holy frankincense doth flow . The brotherless Heliades Melt in such amber tears as these . I in a golden phial will Keep these two crystal tears ...
... tears do come Sad , slowly , dropping like a gum . So weeps the wounded balsam , so The holy frankincense doth flow . The brotherless Heliades Melt in such amber tears as these . I in a golden phial will Keep these two crystal tears ...
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... tears , still dropping , wear My breast , themselves engraving there . There at my feet shalt thou be laid , Of purest alabaster made ; For I would have thine image be White as I can , though not as thee . The following stanzas are ...
... tears , still dropping , wear My breast , themselves engraving there . There at my feet shalt thou be laid , Of purest alabaster made ; For I would have thine image be White as I can , though not as thee . The following stanzas are ...
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affectionate afterwards ANDREW MARVELL appears bill Bishop Bishop of Hereford Bishop of Oxford Captain Thompson character Charles Charles II Church Church of England clergy College conscience constituents Corporation of Hull Court crown Danby death divine Doctor of Divinity doth Dryden Duke duty EARL Ecclesiastical Polity England English esteem eyes father favour Flecnoe flow'rs GENTLEMEN give Growth of Popery hand-writing hath heaven HERBERT CROFT honour House of Commons House of Lords humble humour JOHN MILTON King King's land Lauderdale letter liberty living London Lord Danby Lord Treasurer Lordship Majesty Marvell's master ment Milton mind Naked Truth never occasion Oxenbridge Oxford Parker Parliament patriot person PLEASURE Poem Poet prelates present published received Rehearsal Transprosed reign religion Rome says scarce sent servant soul spirit tears thine thing thou thought throne town virtue voted weep write
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Page 99 - Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found ; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song : then worms shall try That long-preserv'd virginity: And your quaint honour turn to dust ; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
Page 98 - Had we but world enough, and time This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges...
Page 87 - Twas on those little silver feet; "With what a pretty skipping grace It oft would challenge me the race; And when 't had left me far away, 'Twould stay, and run again, and stay ; For it was nimbler much than hinds, And trod as if on the four winds.
Page 92 - Thou tread'st upon enchanted ground ; Perils and snares beset thee round : Beware of all ; guard every part ; But most the traitor in thy heart. 5 Come, then, my soul ! now learn to wield The weight of thine immortal shield ; Put on the armor from above Of heavenly truth, and heavenly love.
Page 90 - Thus sung they, in the English boat, An holy and a cheerful note ; And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.
Page 99 - But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate.
Page 87 - Unkind to a beast that loveth me! Had it lived long, I do not know Whether it, too, might have done so As Sylvio did; his gifts might be Perhaps as false, or more, than he. But I am sure, for aught that I Could in so short a time espy, Thy love was far more better than The love of false and cruel man.
Page 91 - Which, stretcht upright, impales me so, That mine own Precipice I go; And warms and moves this needless...
Page 99 - twas born Round in itself incloses, And in its little globe's extent Frames as it can its native element; How it the purple flower does slight, Scarce touching where it lies, But gazing back upon the skies, Shines with a mournful light Like its own tear, Because so long divided from the sphere.
Page 89 - What should we do but sing His praise That led us through the watery maze Unto an isle so long unknown, And yet far kinder than our own? Where He the huge sea-monsters wracks That lift the deep upon their backs, He lands us on a grassy stage, Safe from the storms' and prelates