Illustrations of Early English Poetry Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... That his owne beames he in the cloudes impailes, And either must extinguish his owne light, Or by his vertue cause his proper night. Mortimeriados, 1596. M. DraYton. To be huge is to be deadly sicke. Scourge of Villany, 1598, Sat. 2. I. MaRStON. O blinded Greatnesse thou, with thy turmoile Still selling happie lise, mak'st lise a toile. Civil Wars, B. iii, st. 67. Then he that strives to manage mightie things, Amidst his triumphes gains a troubled minde: The greatest hope the greatest harm it brings, And poore men in content there glory finde. Marins and Sylla, 1594, act v, sc. 1. The man that surthereth other men to thrive, Os private Greatnesse doth himselse deprive. Life and Death of Wolsey, 1599. Th. Storer. GRIEFE. GRIeFe, all in sable sorrowsully clad, Downe-hanging his dull head, with heavie cheare, Yet inly, being more then seeming sad; A paire os pincers in his hand he had, With which he pinched people to the heart, That srom thencesorth a wretched lise they lad, D. Lodge. In wilsull languor, and consuming smart, Dying each day with inward wounds os dolors dart. Fairy Queen, B. iii, c. xii, st. 16. Ed. Spencer. Griese onely makes his wretched state to see, (Even like a toppe, which nought but whipping moves) This man, this talking beast, this walking tree. Griese is the stone which finest judgements proves, For who grieves not hath but a blockish braine, Since cause os Griese no cause srom lise removes. Arcadia, edit. 1598, p. 147,4to; 4to, 1590, so. 156. S. Ph. SYDNeY. Grieses deadly sore Unkindnes breeds, unkindnes sostereth hate. Idem. Griese to it selse most dreadsull doth appeare, And never yet was sorrow voyd os seare; But yet in death they both do hope the best. Epistle, Q. Isabel to Richard II, 1599. M. Drayton....