The Friends of Fontainbleau, Volume 1

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Saunders and Otley, 1839
 

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Page 311 - For thou art with me here upon the banks Of this fair river; thou, my dearest Friend, My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes.
Page 53 - ... made The world which we inhabit ? Better plea Love cannot have, than that in loving thee Glory to that eternal Peace is paid, Who such Divinity to thee imparts As hallows and makes pure all gentle hearts. His hope is treacherous only whose love dies With beauty, which is varying every hour : But, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power Of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower, That breathes on earth the air of paradise.
Page 7 - Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. All precepts concerning kings are, in effect, comprehended in those two remembrances: Memento quod es homo, and Memento quod es Deus, or, Vice Dei — the one bridleth their power and the other their will.
Page 187 - And, certes,* in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is a lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind! Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia, my dear, my native soil!
Page 253 - Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines ; And as without the sun, the world's great eye, All colours, beauties, both of Art and Nature, Are given in vain to men, so without love All beauties bred in women are in vain ; All virtues born in men lie buried, For love informs them as the sun doth colours...
Page 94 - What sick'ning scenes appear! What sorrows yet may pierce me through, Too justly I may fear! Still caring, despairing, Must be my bitter doom; My woes here shall close ne'er But with the closing tomb!
Page 253 - I tell thee love is Nature's second sun Causing a spring of virtues where he shines; And as without the sun, the world's great eye, All colours, beauties, both of art and Nature, Are given in vain to men, so without love All beauties bred in women are in vain, All virtues born in men lie buried; For love informs them as the sun doth colours ; And as the sun, reflecting his warm beams Against...
Page 124 - What melting loveliness was thine? A spirit like the breathless calm When summer's gentle air is balm...
Page 290 - Whilome3 those great heroes got thereby Their greatest glory for their rightful deeds, And place deserved with the gods on high : Herein the noblesse of this knight exceeds, Who now to perils great for justice...
Page 276 - She, gracious Lady, yet no paines did spare To doe him ease, or doe him remedy : Many restoratives of vertues rare, And costly cordialles she did apply, To mitigate his stubborne malady: But that sweet cordiall, which can restore A love-sick hart, she did to him envy; To him, and to all th' unworthy world forlore, She did envy that soveraine salve in secret store.

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