Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed, Volume 4

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Page 434 - With exclamations of her rapture then, To vent it to the echoes of the vale ; When, meditating of me, a sweet gale Brought me upon thee ; and thou didst inherit My true sense, for the time then, in my spirit ; And I, invisibly, went prompting thee To those fair greens where thou didst English me.
Page 32 - The whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint; from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores.
Page 502 - Remember your poor child for his father's sake, who loved you in his happiest estate. I sued for my life, but (God knows) it was for you and yours that I desired it: for know it (my dear wife) your child is the child of a true man, who, in his own respect, despiseth death, and his mis-shapen and ugly forms.
Page 499 - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great "twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense ; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus...
Page 502 - ... yours with extreme poverty. To what friend to direct you i know not, for all mine have left me in the true time of trial.
Page 199 - Fletcher (bringing with them a strong party) appeared, as if they meant to water their Bayes with blood, rather then part with their proper Right, which indeed Apollo and the Muses (had with much justice) conferr'd upon them, so that now there is like to be...
Page 330 - But the proper language of poetry is in fact nothing different from that of real life, and depends for its dignity upon the strength and sentiment of what it speaks.
Page 21 - It is not good to speak evil of all whom we know to be bad ; it is worse to judge evil of any, who may prove good. To speak ill upon knowledge shows a want of charity ; to speak ill upon suspicion shows a want of honesty. I will not speak so bad as I know of many ; I will not speak worse than I^know of any.
Page 467 - ... not. In the morning he listens whether the crow crieth even or odd; and, by that token, presages of the weather. If he hear but a raven croak from the next roof, he makes his will...
Page 447 - I minde shortely at convenient leysure to sette forth a Booke in this kinde, whyche I entitle Epithalamion Thamesis, whyche Booke 20 I dare undertake wil be very profitable for the knowledge and rare for the Invention and manner of handling.

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