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Page 187 - 1. By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright Honor from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned Honor by the locks; So he that doth redeem her hence might wear Without corrival all her dignities.
Page lxxiii - The Italian astronomers reveal the secrets of the skies, and Milton travelling in Italy, seeks out and visits, at Arcetri, the greatest of them, "the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Teofilo Folengo, Trajano Boccalini, Paolo Giovio, and
Page xxxvi - Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.
Page lxvi - verse, — Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother: Death, ere thou hast slain another. Fair, and learned, and good as she. Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 472 - 1645. Poems by Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, compos'd at several Times. Printed by his true Copies. The Songs were set in Musick by Mr. Henry Lawes, Gentleman of the King's Chappell, London. Printed by Ruth Raworth, for Humphrey Mosely, etc. London. 1645. Sm. 8vo. 2
Page 198 - haberi. London. Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Princes Armes in S. Pauls Churchyard. 1648-47. 4to. (A second title-page for the Pastor Fido alone bears the date 1647.) With portrait of Giovanni Battista Guarini, by J. Cross.
Page 378 - I would o'er-stare the sternest eyes that look: Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth: Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey, To win thee, lady.
Page 463 - The Execution of Justice in England for maintenance of publique and Christian peace, against certeine stirrers of sedition, and adherents to the traytors and enemies of the Realme, without any persecution of them for questions of Religion, as is falsely reported and published by the fautors and fosterers of their treasons. [By William Cecil, Lord
Page 217 - Christopher Tye is a character in Samuel Rowley's play, When You See Me, You know Me, or The Famous Chronicle History of Henry 8 (1605. 4to). A dialogue of this drama, between Prince Edward and his music master, gives us King Henry VIII's opinion of Dr. Tye in language of strong Tudor flavor: — Prince
Page 216 - The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, Making their summer lives one ceaseless song, Were the sole echoes, save my steed's and mine, And vesper-bells that rose the boughs along; The spectre huntsman of Onesti's line, His hell-dogs, and their chase, and the fair throng, Which learn'd from this example not to fly Prom a true lover, shadow'd my mind's eye.