The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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... breast , And is the yellow autumn's nightingale . " This is Chapman at his best ; and few then can better him . The language hardly holds lovelier lines , of more perfect colour and more happy cadence , than some few of these which I ...
... breast , And is the yellow autumn's nightingale . " This is Chapman at his best ; and few then can better him . The language hardly holds lovelier lines , of more perfect colour and more happy cadence , than some few of these which I ...
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... breasts I doubt not had been well worthy commendation , if their comparison had not turned them into pyes . Thus ( not affecting glory for mine own slight labours , but desirous others should be more worthily glorious , nor professing ...
... breasts I doubt not had been well worthy commendation , if their comparison had not turned them into pyes . Thus ( not affecting glory for mine own slight labours , but desirous others should be more worthily glorious , nor professing ...
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... breasts with fourteen arrows gored ; And set by her , that for her seed so starved , To a stone sepulchre herself deplored ; In ivory were they cut , and on each breast , In golden elements their names imprest . Her sons were Sypilus ...
... breasts with fourteen arrows gored ; And set by her , that for her seed so starved , To a stone sepulchre herself deplored ; In ivory were they cut , and on each breast , In golden elements their names imprest . Her sons were Sypilus ...
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... breast's divinity . THE SONG OF CORINNA . ' Tis better to contemn than love , And to be fair than wise , For souls are ruled by eyes : And Jove's bird seized by Cypris ' dove It is our grace and sport to see , Our beauty's sorcery ...
... breast's divinity . THE SONG OF CORINNA . ' Tis better to contemn than love , And to be fair than wise , For souls are ruled by eyes : And Jove's bird seized by Cypris ' dove It is our grace and sport to see , Our beauty's sorcery ...
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... ; which by this analogy should be Intellectus , and her conceit , Intelligibilis . This hath reference to the order of her utterance , expressed before . Nought are these notes , her breast so sweetly frames OVID'S BANQUET OF SENSE . 25.
... ; which by this analogy should be Intellectus , and her conceit , Intelligibilis . This hath reference to the order of her utterance , expressed before . Nought are these notes , her breast so sweetly frames OVID'S BANQUET OF SENSE . 25.
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Page 57 - It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by Fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows; let it suffice. What we behold is censured by our eyes.