The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 3Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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Page 170 - Save that, to die, I leave my love alone. No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world) with vilest worms to dwell Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ
Page 165 - eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, 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, AVith what I most enjoy contented least;
Page 46 - myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour. But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it
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Page 170 - for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe. O if, I say, you look upon this verse, When I perhaps
Page 165 - And each, though enemies to cither's reign, Do in consent shake hands to torture me, The one by toil, the other to complain How far I toil, still further off from thee. 1 tell the day, to please him, thou art bright, And dost him grace when clouds do blot the