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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... concerning the delivery of your letter at the same time . Be pleased , there fore , to pardon me , and know that I tendered them both toge ther . But my Lord read not the letter while I was with him ; which I attributed to our dispatch ...
... concerning the delivery of your letter at the same time . Be pleased , there fore , to pardon me , and know that I tendered them both toge ther . But my Lord read not the letter while I was with him ; which I attributed to our dispatch ...
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... concerning the business of Parlia ment , no letters to the Corporation of Hull remain of an earlier date than November 17th , that year . Perhaps his previous letters might have been given up to him , or destroyed at his request , upon ...
... concerning the business of Parlia ment , no letters to the Corporation of Hull remain of an earlier date than November 17th , that year . Perhaps his previous letters might have been given up to him , or destroyed at his request , upon ...
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... concerning the way of proceeding , yet we have the same good ends in gene- ral ; and by this unlucky falling out , we shall be provoked to a greater emulation of serving you . I must beg you to pardon me for writing singly to you , for ...
... concerning the way of proceeding , yet we have the same good ends in gene- ral ; and by this unlucky falling out , we shall be provoked to a greater emulation of serving you . I must beg you to pardon me for writing singly to you , for ...
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... concerning Religion . The oc- casion of which rose from the motion of a Member of the House concerning the growth of Popery , for giving case to Protestant Dissenters , and other good things of the same tendency . " April 22 : - " A ...
... concerning Religion . The oc- casion of which rose from the motion of a Member of the House concerning the growth of Popery , for giving case to Protestant Dissenters , and other good things of the same tendency . " April 22 : - " A ...
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... concerning Par liament business , which makes me presume to advertise you , and though I object nothing to Mr. Cressett's fide- lity and discretion , neither do I write any thing delibe- rately that I fear to have divulged , yet seeing ...
... concerning Par liament business , which makes me presume to advertise you , and though I object nothing to Mr. Cressett's fide- lity and discretion , neither do I write any thing delibe- rately that I fear to have divulged , yet seeing ...
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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 commendams conscience constituents Corporation of Hull Court crown Danby death desire 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 Juliana King King's land Lauderdale letter liberty living London LORD TREASURER Lordship Majesty Marvell's ment Milton mind Naked Truth never occasion Oxenbridge Oxford Parker Parliament patriot person PLEASURE Poem poet preaching Prelate present published Rehearsal Transprosed reign religion says scarce sent servant soul spirit tears thine thing thou thought throne town virtue voted weep write
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Page 98 - TO HIS COY MISTRESS 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' side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews; My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes...
Page 99 - Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie 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 preserved 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 90 - But apples, plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice. With cedars chosen by His hand From Lebanon He stores the land; And makes the hollow seas that roar Proclaim the ambergris on shore.
Page 99 - Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.
Page 88 - Yet could not till itself would rise, Find it, although before mine eyes ; For, in the flaxen lilies' shade, It like a bank of lilies laid. Upon the roses it would feed, Until its lips e'en seemed to bleed ; And then to me 'twould boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip.
Page 96 - The poets tag them, we for fashion wear. I too, transported by the mode, offend, And, while I meant to praise thee, must commend.
Page 96 - That majesty, which through thy work doth reign, Draws the devout, deterring the profane. And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves, and thee inviolate. At once delight and horror on us seize, Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease ; And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so strong, so equal, and so soft.
Page 90 - He cast (of which we rather boast) The Gospel's pearl upon our coast, And in these rocks for us did frame A temple where to sound His name. Oh ! let our voice His praise exalt, Till it arrive at Heaven's vault, Which, thence (perhaps) rebounding, may Echo beyond the Mexique Bay.
Page 36 - What have I for dinner to-day?' 'Don't you know, sir, that you bid me lay by the blade-bone to broil! "Tis so, very right, child, go away.
Page 100 - Of the clear fountain of eternal day, Could it within the human flower be seen, Remembering still its former height, Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green; And, recollecting its own light, Does, in its pure and circling thoughts, express The greater heaven in an heaven less.