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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... eyes . The merchant's clerk will not write like the lawyer or the poet . Even nations are distinguished by their writing : the vivacity and variableness of the Frenchman , and the delicacy and suppleness of the Italian , are perceptibly ...
... eyes . The merchant's clerk will not write like the lawyer or the poet . Even nations are distinguished by their writing : the vivacity and variableness of the Frenchman , and the delicacy and suppleness of the Italian , are perceptibly ...
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... eye , which way we ought to travell ; and Mrs. Oxenbridge has looked so well to him , that he hath al- ready much mended his complexion ; and now she is ordering his chamber , that he may delight to be in it as often as his studys ...
... eye , which way we ought to travell ; and Mrs. Oxenbridge has looked so well to him , that he hath al- ready much mended his complexion ; and now she is ordering his chamber , that he may delight to be in it as often as his studys ...
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... eyes , and brown hair , bowed to them with a cheerful smile , as they walked through into an inner apart- ment , but did not speak . These were the immortal John Milton , Latin Secretary to the Protector , and the scarcely less ...
... eyes , and brown hair , bowed to them with a cheerful smile , as they walked through into an inner apart- ment , but did not speak . These were the immortal John Milton , Latin Secretary to the Protector , and the scarcely less ...
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... eye , the mischief of the Excise ; for when the proposition was started for a longer continuance of that Bill , he prophetically added , " I wish it prove not too long . " It is impossible to avoid smiling at the difference of 14 ANDREW ...
... eye , the mischief of the Excise ; for when the proposition was started for a longer continuance of that Bill , he prophetically added , " I wish it prove not too long . " It is impossible to avoid smiling at the difference of 14 ANDREW ...
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... eye of the law , his Majesty is always present in all his courts , he cannot personally distribute justice . It is the regal office , and not the royal person , that is always present in court ; and from this ubiquity it follows , that ...
... eye of the law , his Majesty is always present in all his courts , he cannot personally distribute justice . It is the regal office , and not the royal person , that is always present in court ; and from this ubiquity it follows , that ...
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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 Rehearsal Transprosed reign religion Rome says scarce sent servant soul spirit tears thine thing thou thought throne To-day 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 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. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
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 90 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet And throws the melons at our feet; But apples plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice.
Page 87 - It is a wondrous thing how fleet 'Twas on those little silver feet; "With what a pretty skipping grace It oft would challenge me...
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 87 - But Sylvio soon had me beguiled: This waxed tame, while he grew wild, And quite regardless of my smart, Left me his Fawn, but took his Heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this, and very well content Could so mine idle life have spent.
Page 91 - Which, stretcht upright, impales me so, That mine own Precipice I go; And warms and moves this needless...
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 63 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...