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Page 229 - Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, — and then my state ( Like to the lark at break of
Page 228 - 0 for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not belter for my life provide Than public means, which public manners
Page 249 - deep impression look; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving : And so sepulcher'd, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish
Page 249 - stones; Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a stary-pointing pyramid. Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of
Page 229 - Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, — and then my state ( Like to the lark at break of
Page 228 - it that my name receives a brand ; And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in.
Page 249 - marble with too much conceiving : And so sepulcher'd, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish
Page 247 - but call forth thund'ring ^Eschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles to « us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, to live again, to hear
Page 232 - of being; For why should others" false adulterate eyes Give salutation to my sportive blood ? Or on my frailties why are frailer spies, Which in
Page 249 - of slow undeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphick