Works, Volume 7Bickers and Sons, 1875 |
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Æneid alludes Antimasque appears arms attired aull beauty behold called Christmas clouds Cock colours Countess court crown Cupid Dæmon Dame dance daughter delight doth earl earth eyes fame fate folio fortune Gifford gipsy give GOLDEN AGE RESTORED grace hand hath head heaven Hercules honour Hymen Inigo Jones James Jonson Jove Juno king lady light look lord Love majesty marriage married Masque MASQUE OF AUGURS Masque of Beauty Masque of Queens masquers master Meliadus moon never night nuptials Ovid peace poet Post and Pair present prince printed quæ quæst queen Remig rich rites s'all Satyrs scene shew shine Silen sing SONG speak Sphynx star thee things thou truth unto Venus virtue VISION OF DELIGHT Wales Welse WHAL wife wings witches word
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Page 442 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 450 - To Mr. Lawrence LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Page 46 - It is a noble and just advantage that the things subjected to understanding have of those which are objected to sense that the one sort are but momentary and merely taking, the other impressing and lasting. Else the glory of all these solemnities had perished like a blaze and gone out in the beholders
Page 455 - I'll kiss it for luck sake: you should, by this line, Love a horse and a hound, but no part of a swine.
Page 110 - Dame, dame ! the watch is set : Quickly come, we all are met.— From the lakes, and from the fens, From the rocks, and from the dens, From the woods, and from the caves, From the church-yards, from the graves, From the dungeon, from the tree That they die on, here are we ! Comes she not yet ? Strike another heat.
Page 91 - Beauties, have ye seen this toy Called Love, a little boy, Almost naked, wanton, blind, Cruel now, and then as kind? If he be amongst ye, say; He is Venus
Page 177 - There the whole palace opened and the nation of fays were discovered, some with instruments, some bearing lights, others singing; and within, afar off in perspective, the knights masquers sitting in their several sieges; at the further end of all, OBERON, in a chariot which, to a loud triumphant music, began to move forward, drawn by two white bears, and on either side guarded by three SYLVANS, with one going in front.
Page 56 - Here, the upper part of the scene, which was all of clouds, and made artificially to swell, and ride like the rack, began to open...
Page 366 - To the old, long life and treasure ; To the young, all health and pleasure ; To the fair, their face With eternal grace ; And the soul to be loved at leisure. To the witty, all clear mirrors, To the foolish their dark errors ; To the loving sprite, A secure delight : To the jealous his own false terrors.
Page 16 - fore the Britain men, Indent the land, with those pure traces They flow with, in their native graces. Invite them boldly to the shore; Their beauties shall be scorch'd no more : This sun is temperate, and refines All things on which his radiance shines.