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The Vision, Or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise - Page 232
by Dante Alighieri - 1847 - 543 pages
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...where you may be safe Till further quest. LADY. Shepherd, I take thy word, And (rust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds...tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, And yet is most pretended: In a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...where you may be safe Till further quest. Lad. Shepherd, I take thy word And trust thy honest ortcr'd hest verge Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes, tl\an in tap'stry halls In courts of princes where it first was nani'd 325 And yet is most pretended...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 18

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...them the Trojans cast Stones, rafteri, pillars, beams. Denham, Shepherd, I trust thy honest offered courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls. Milton. From the east, a Belgian wind His hostile breath through the dry rafters sent ; The flames...
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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Aeschylus - 1831 - 352 pages
...Solicitam explicuere frontem." So Tasso — " Non copre abito vil la nobil luce." And Milton — " courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls, In courts of princes." Vide et Lucretius, lib. ii. 27, et Ariosto, cant. xiv. 1. 62. : ..1 •*-•...
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The Agamemnon of Æschylus, tr. [and] illustr. by a diss. on Grecian tragedy ...

Aeschylus - 1831 - 332 pages
...ostro, Solicitam explicuere frontem." So Tasso — " Non copre abito vil la nobil luce." And Milton— " courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls, In courts of princes." Vide et Lucretius, lib. ii. 27, et Ariosto, cant. xiv. 1. 62. _, But from the...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...you may be safe 320 Till further quest. LAD. Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds...tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, ncs And yet is most pretended : in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot...
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature: Containing Historical, Biographical ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 pages
...where you may be safe Till further quest. Lady. Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds...tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, And yet is most pretended : in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be,...
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 pages
...where you may be safe Till further quest. lady. Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds...tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, And yet is most pretended : in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be,...
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Illustrations of Human Life, Volume 1

Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 386 pages
...that owned it. It reminded me of Milton's Shepherd: . ' I take thy word And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tap'stried halls, And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, And yet is most pretended.' " After...
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Illustrations of Human Life, Volume 1

Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 376 pages
...It reminded me of Milton's Shepherd: ' I take thy word And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, VThich oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tap'stried halls, And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, And yet is most pretended.' " After...
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