Michael Drayton; a Critical Study, with a BibliographyA. Constable, 1905 - 216 pages |
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Page 51 - Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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Page 135 - Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 3 - Amongst all other, what strange kind of men These Poets were ! and, pleased with the name, To my mild Tutor merrily I came ; For I was then a proper goodly Page, Much like a pigmy, scarce ten years of age. Clasping my slender arms about his thigh, ' O, my dear master ! cannot you,' quoth I, ' Make me a Poet ! Do it, if you can ; And you shall see, I'll quickly be a man ! ' Who me thus answered, smiling, 'Boy!
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Page 84 - It is no pamper'd glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin But one, whose virtue shone above the rest, A valiant martyr, and a virtuous peer...
Page 46 - Age rules my lines with wrinkles in my face ; Where, in the Map of all my Misery...