A Paradise of Daintie Devices: A Collection of Poems, Songs, Ballads (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from A Paradise of Daintie Devices: A Collection of Poems, Songs, Ballads

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; All at her work the village-maiden sings, Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around.

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Excerpt from A Paradise of Daintie Devices: A Collection of Poems, Songs, Ballads

It (poesy) was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.

Lord Bacon - Advancement of Learning, Bk. II.

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
All at her work the village-maiden sings,
Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around,
Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.

Gifford - Contemplation.

Poetry is older than prose. Of this we have what maybe called paleontological proof in the structure of all languages. Our every-day speech is fossil poetry. Words which are now dead were once alive. The farther we recede and the lower we descend, the more these wonderful petrifactions of old forms of poetic thought and feeling abound.

Abraham Coles - The Evangel - Introduction.

A verse may find him who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.

George Herbert - The Temple - The Church Porch.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.