Graystone: A Novel

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J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - 338 oldal

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82. oldal - There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow. There cherries grow which none may buy Till 'Cherry-ripe
216. oldal - Gold is the coverlet of imperfections. It is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
83. oldal - Cherry-ripe" themselves do cry. Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row, Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds filled with snow, Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy Till "Cherry-ripe
151. oldal - And unless that mind I see, What care I how great she be ? Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne'er the more despair: If she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve : If she slight me when I woo, I can scorn and let her go ; For if she be not for me, What care I for whom she be ? George Wither.
147. oldal - I'd leave the world for him that hates a woman. Woman, the fountain of all human frailty ! What mighty ills have not been done by woman ! Who was't betrayed the Capitol ? A woman. Who lost Mark Antony the world ? A woman. Who was the cause of a long ten years...
218. oldal - Now now Sir knight, shew what ye bee, Add faith unto your force, and be not faint: Strangle her, els she sure will strangle thee. That when he heard, in great perplexitie, His gall did grate for griefe and high disdaine, And knitting all his force got one hand free, Wherewith he grypt her gorge with so great paine, That soone to loose her wicked bands did her constraine.
99. oldal - But he invariably refused admittance to all except to fools, or such as were his enemies. When suffered to pass in, however, their wonder was extreme ; and few having entered it wished to return. On the contrary, the delights which they experienced, so infatuated their minds, that they easily yielded to the demands of the magician, and resigned their inheritances to him without the slightest reserve. The fools, of course, believing it to be Paradise, and that the flowers and fruits were of immortal...
331. oldal - The simple ayre, the gentle warbling wynde, So calme, so coole, as no where else I fynde : The grassye ground with Daintye Daysies dight, The Bramble bush, where Byrds of every kynde To the waters fall their tunes attemper right.
217. oldal - ... cold. In this we differ from the ancient heathen ; they made Jupiter their chief god, and we have crowned Pluto. He is master of the Muses, and can buy their...
166. oldal - Tho couth I sing of love, and tune my pype Unto my plaintive pleas in verses made : Tho would I seeke for Queene-apples unrype, To give my Rosalind ; and in Sommer shade Dight gaudy Girlonds was my common trade, To crowne her golden locks : but yeeres more rype, And losse of her, whose love as lyfe I wayd, Those weary wanton toyes away dyd wype.

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