The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of the Right Honourable Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke: Memorial-introduction. Poems of monarchy. Treatise of religionC. Tiplady, 1870 |
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ANN NEVILE Athens BACON ballance bear bound bring Brooke's Caligula chang'd cleer conscience corrupt creatures crown divers doom doth Earth Elizabeth equal excess faith fame fate fear flesh forc't forrain frame FULKE GREVILLE give God's gods grace grow hath heart honour Hope and Fear humours infinite Jesus College judge keep kings Lacedemon laws leiger let fall Letter light live LORD BROOKE majesty man's mankind Marcus Tullius Cicero men's merit mixt monarchy mortal moulds Nature Nature's never noble peace people's Phineas Fletcher Pow'r pride princes publick raign rais'd Religion reputation rest Rome scepters SECT sence shadows shew SIR FULKE SIR PHILIP SIDNEY souls Southey misprints soveraign spirits strange swayd things throne traffick Trinity College true Truth Tyranny tyrants unto us'd vice Warwickshire weak wealth Whence Whereby Wherein wisdom wise words worth
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Page lxxxix - mine eyes, Have look'd on : if they look'd in vain, My shame is greater who remain, Nor let thy wisdom make me wise.
Page lxv - or whether my matter must be an appendix to my Lord of Essex suit; or whether her Majesty, pretending to prove my ability, meaneth but, to take advantage of some errors
Page lxvi - so in infinitum, I am weary of it; as also of wearying my good friends: of whom, nevertheless, I hope in one
Page xlii - theft, I, who did make her blush when I was named ; Must I lose ring, flowers, blush, theft, and go naked,
Page 4 - 1628, having been also Counsellor of State for about three years to King Charles the First. When he grew old, he revised the Poems and Treatises he had writ long before, and at his death
Page lxvi - or other gratefully to deserve. And so not forgetting your business, I leave to trouble you with this idle letter, being
Page xxi - one of the daughters of the Lord Brooke's son. The knight made a motion to his ward, to be married to John, his eldest son; but she refused, saying that she did like better of Fulke, his
Page lxvii - spake finely, somewhat after the manner of my late Lord Privy Seal; not all out so sharply, but as elegantly.
Page 5 - was a time before the times of Story When Nature raign'd instead of Laws or Arts, And mortal gods, with men made up the glory Of one
Page 227 - O Lord ! Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our souls are restless till they rest in Thee":