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Page 201 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, // And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take...
Page 243 - To tardy swain no shrill-voiced matrons squall ; No dogs, no babes, no wives, to stun your ear ; No hammers thump ; no horrid blacksmith sear ; Ne noisy tradesman your sweet slumbers start, With sounds that are a misery to hear : But all is calm, as would delight the heart Of Sybarite of old, all nature, and all art.
Page 237 - So now that I have declared to you what I would have, and what it is that I would not have, I pray you, when you be an earl, to allow me ^2,000 more than I now desire, and double attendance.
Page 57 - In duskier braids around the languid eyes of day ; Silence and twilight, unbeloved of men, Creep hand in hand from yon obscurest glen. They breathe their spells towards the departing day, Encompassing the earth, air, stars, and sea ; Light, sound, and motion own the potent sway, Responding to the charm with its own mystery. The winds are still, or the dry church-tower grass Knows not their gentle motions as they pass.
Page 250 - See the soft green willow springing Where the waters gently pass, Every way her free arms flinging O'er the moist and reedy grass. Long ere winter blasts are fled, See her tipp'd with vernal red, And her kindly flower display'd Ere her leaf can cast a shade.
Page 268 - in his nature so severe a lover of justice and so precise a lover of truth, that he was superior to all possible temptations for the violation of either.
Page 40 - Of all situations for a constant residence, that which appears to me most delightful is a little village far in the country ; a small neighbourhood, not of fine mansions finely peopled, but of cottages and cottagelike houses, 'messuages or tenements...
Page 251 - WHO says, the wan autumnal sun Beams with too faint a smile To light up nature's face again, . And, though the year be on the wane, With thoughts of spring the heart beguile? Waft him, thou soft September breeze, And gently lay him down Within some circling woodland wall, Where bright leaves, reddening ere they fall,* .Wave gaily o'er the waters brown.
Page 235 - MY SWEET LIFE — Now I have declared to you my mind for the settling of your state, I suppose that it were best for me to bethink or consider with myself what allowance were meetest for me.
Page 58 - Thus solemnized and softened, death is mild And terrorless as this serenest night ; Here could I hope, like some inquiring child Sporting on graves, that death did hide from human sight Sweet secrets, or beside its breathless sleep That loveliest dreams perpetual watch did keep.