The Complete Works of Michael Drayton: PolyolbionJ. R. Smith, 1876 - English poetry |
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The Complete Works of Michael Drayton: Now First Collected, Volume 1 Michael Drayton,Richard Hooper No preview available - 2015 |
The Complete Works of Michael Drayton: Polyolbion and the Harmony of the Church Michael Drayton No preview available - 2018 |
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affirm Albion ancient antiquity apud arms Arthur Author Avon banks Bards Belinus betwixt Bishop blood brave Brennus Britain Britons Brooks Brute Cæsar call'd called Cambria Corineus Cornwall course Crown delight divers doth Drayton Druids earth England English fame famous flood Florence of Worcester Forest Fourth Song Froome Gaul Girald goodly Gorlois grace Greek Harp hath Henry of Huntingdon hills Hist hither honour Isle Julius Cæsar kind King land Latin learned lusty Merlin MICHAEL DRAYTON mighty Mountains Muse neighbouring Nennius Neptune Neptune's noble Norman Nymphs Pict plac'd Plain Plutarch poet poetical POLY-OLBION Polybius pow'r Prince prophecies proud renown'd Rivers Roman Rome Saxons scarce Scots Scythians Severne Shires shore sing Strabo stream sundry supposed sword Tacitus tell thee thence thou tongue Troian twixt unto verse viii Wales wand'ring wat'ry Welsh whence whilst wondrous xvii
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Page 151 - As though within her bounds they meant her to inclose; Here, when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength he does but vainly strive; His tail takes in his mouth, and bending like a bow That's to...
Page xxii - I thank you, my dear sweet Drummond, for your good opinion of Polyolbion. I have done twelve books more, that is, from the 18th book, which was Kent (if you note it), all the east parts and north to the river of Tweed ; but it lieth by me, for the booksellers and I are in terms ; they are a company of base knaves, whom I scorn and kick at.
Page xxix - Forests, | and other Parts of this Renowned | Isle of Great Britain, | With intermixture of the most Remarkeable | Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarities, Pleasures, | and Commodities, of the same.
Page 102 - Mongst Hatterill's lofty hills, that with the clouds are crown'd, The valley Ewias lies, immured so deep and round, As they below who see the mountains rise so high, Might think the straggling herds were grazing in the sky : Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear, As Nature at the first appointed it for prayer.
Page 106 - All quickly at the hint, as with one free consent, Strook up at once and sung each to the instrument; (Of sundry sorts that were, as the musician likes...
Page xxxv - Verses are wholly deduced to chambers, and nothing esteemed in this lunatic Age but what is kept in cabinets, and must only pass by transcription.
Page xxxvi - Andjwhatever is herein that tastes of a free spirit, I thankfully confess it to proceed from the continual bounty of my truly noble friend Sir Walter Aston ; which hath given me the best of those hours, whose leisure hath effected this which I now publish.
Page ix - There," says the gentleman, pointing with his finger, "that is the Poet's Corner; there you see the monuments of Shakespeare, and Milton, and Prior, and Drayton." "Drayton!" I replied; "I never heard of him before: but I have been told of one Pope; is he there?" "It is time enough," replied my guide, "these hundred years; he is not long dead; people have not done hating him yet.
Page 151 - That's to full compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw ; Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand That, bended end to end, and started from man's hand, Far off itself doth cast ; so does the salmon vault ; And if at first he fail, his second summersault He instantly essays ; and from his nimble ring, Still yerking, never leaves until himself he fling Above the opposing stream.
Page 174 - O'erturns the toiling barge, whose steersman doth not launch, And thrusts the furrowing beak into her ireful paunch. As when we haply see a sickly woman fall Into a fit of that which we the mother call ; When from the grieved womb she feels the pain arise, Breaks into grievous sighs, with intermixed cries...