Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 by Various
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Fletcher's _Purple Island_, C. 6. S. 28. p. 71. ed. 1633. On l. 331. (G.):-- "Night begins to _muffle up_ the day." Wither's _Mistresse of Philarete_. On l. 335. (G.):-- "That whiles thick _darkness_ blots the light, My thoughts may cast another _night_: In which _double shade_," &c. Cartwright's _Poems_, p. 220. ed. 1651. On l. 345. (G.):-- "Singing to the sounds of _oaten reed_." _Drummond_, p. 128. On l. 373. (G.):-- "Virtue gives herself light thro' darkness for to wade." Spenser's _F. Queene_. {149} (D.) For what is here finely said, and again beautifully expressed (v. |
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