The Oxford Library of English Poetry, Volume 1John Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 443 pages |
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Page 78
... stand stone - still . For heaven's sake , Hubert , let me not be bound ! Nay , hear me , Hubert : drive these men away , And I will sit as quiet as a lamb ; I will not stir , nor wince , nor speak a word , Nor look upon the iron angerly ...
... stand stone - still . For heaven's sake , Hubert , let me not be bound ! Nay , hear me , Hubert : drive these men away , And I will sit as quiet as a lamb ; I will not stir , nor wince , nor speak a word , Nor look upon the iron angerly ...
Page 147
... stand upright , And say , " This man's a flatterer ? ' if one be , So are they all ; for every grize of fortune Is smooth'd by that below : the learned pate Ducks to the golden fool : all is oblique ; There's nothing level in our cursed ...
... stand upright , And say , " This man's a flatterer ? ' if one be , So are they all ; for every grize of fortune Is smooth'd by that below : the learned pate Ducks to the golden fool : all is oblique ; There's nothing level in our cursed ...
Page 198
... stand inquiring right , is not to stray ; To sleep , or run wrong is . On a huge hill , Cragged , and steep , Truth stands , and he that will Reach her , about must , and about must go ; And what the hill's suddenness resists , win so ...
... stand inquiring right , is not to stray ; To sleep , or run wrong is . On a huge hill , Cragged , and steep , Truth stands , and he that will Reach her , about must , and about must go ; And what the hill's suddenness resists , win so ...
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EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 1 |
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
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