Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s child!
Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death’s harbinger.
Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.
The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.
Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers – If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.
But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.
But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.
From haunted spring and dale Edg’d with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.
Death Grinn’d horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill’d.
Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.
Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, – as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder’d with stars.
Seas wept from our deep sorrows.
Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav’n.
He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.
In God’s intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.
O’er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.
Pleas’d me, long choosing and beginning late.