The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... bewitched with the outward and painted beauty , and take it for better or worse , before we know its true nature and in- terior inconveniences . A great fortune ( says Se- neca ) is a great servitude ; but many are OF LIBERTY . 11.
... bewitched with the outward and painted beauty , and take it for better or worse , before we know its true nature and in- terior inconveniences . A great fortune ( says Se- neca ) is a great servitude ; but many are OF LIBERTY . 11.
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... Hor . 2. Sat. vi . 34 . -the endeavourers to be witty ] Justly observed , and well expressed ; for true wit comes of itself , without any endeavour . - Hurd . should be but of a mean profession ; and he 14 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
... Hor . 2. Sat. vi . 34 . -the endeavourers to be witty ] Justly observed , and well expressed ; for true wit comes of itself , without any endeavour . - Hurd . should be but of a mean profession ; and he 14 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
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... true freeman , and that true gentleman ; not he who blindly follows all his pleasures ( the very name of follower is servile ) ; but he who rationally Ps . xxxix . 6 . Phorm . Act . I. Sc . i . ver . 43 . guides them , and is not ...
... true freeman , and that true gentleman ; not he who blindly follows all his pleasures ( the very name of follower is servile ) ; but he who rationally Ps . xxxix . 6 . Phorm . Act . I. Sc . i . ver . 43 . guides them , and is not ...
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... true profit with the best delight ) The more heroic strain let others take , Mine the Pindaric way I'll make ; The matter shall be grave , the numbers loose and free . It shall not keep one settled pace of time , In the same tune it ...
... true profit with the best delight ) The more heroic strain let others take , Mine the Pindaric way I'll make ; The matter shall be grave , the numbers loose and free . It shall not keep one settled pace of time , In the same tune it ...
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... true , it loves to have its elbows free , it detests to have company on either side ; but it delights above all things in a train behind , aye , and ushers too before it . But the greatest part of men are so far from the opinion of that ...
... true , it loves to have its elbows free , it detests to have company on either side ; but it delights above all things in a train behind , aye , and ushers too before it . But the greatest part of men are so far from the opinion of that ...
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afford agreeable allow ambition appear avarice beauty better betwixt character Cicero Columella consider death degree delight discover dost dress earth effect envy Epicurus EPIG esteem ev'n fame fancy favour fear fool fortune friends garden genius gentleman give happiness highwayman honour Horace human imagination Incitatus instance justice of peace kind king latter least LENOX LIBRARY less liberty live lord lord Shaftesbury Lucretius mankind manner means ment merit methinks mind nation nature never objects observed occasion one's Ovid passions perhaps person Pindaric pleased pleasure plebeian poet poetry princes proper quire racter reason regard rich Sallust Sapere aude seems sense sometimes sort style superior suppose sure taste thee things thou thought tion trees Triarii truth tyrant Urim and Thummim vanity Varro verse Virg Virgil virtue vulgar whole wise wonder word writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 121 - t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Seite 101 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 28 - Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! Hail, ye plebeian under-wood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food Pay, with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor Muses...
Seite 116 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Seite 121 - Even when I was a very young Boy at School, instead of running about on Holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them, and walk into the fields, either alone with a Book, or with some one Companion, if I could find any of the same temper.
Seite 105 - I thought, when I went first to dwell in the country, that without doubt I should have met there with the simplicity of the old poetical golden age ; I thought to have found no inhabitants there, but such as the shepherds of Sir Philip Sidney in Arcadia, or of Monsieur d'Urfe...
Seite 126 - Nothing shall separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her.
Seite 66 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Seite 29 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.