Prose Works of Abraham Cowley ; Including His Essays in Prose and VerseW. Pickering, 1826 - 238 Seiten |
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... rest , I dare boldly pronounce , that never yet so much was written on a subject so delicate , that can less offend the severest rules of morality . The whole passion of love is inimitably described , with all its mighty train of hopes ...
... rest , I dare boldly pronounce , that never yet so much was written on a subject so delicate , that can less offend the severest rules of morality . The whole passion of love is inimitably described , with all its mighty train of hopes ...
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... rest , and , as an unfeigned image of his soul should be drawn , without flattery . I do not speak this to their disadvantage . For the true perfection of wit is , to be pliable to all occasions , to walk or fly , ac- cording to the ...
... rest , and , as an unfeigned image of his soul should be drawn , without flattery . I do not speak this to their disadvantage . For the true perfection of wit is , to be pliable to all occasions , to walk or fly , ac- cording to the ...
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... been forced , for my own necessary justifi- cation , to trouble the reader with this long discourse of the reasons why I trouble him also with all the rest of the book , I shall only add somewhat concerning 8 THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
... been forced , for my own necessary justifi- cation , to trouble the reader with this long discourse of the reasons why I trouble him also with all the rest of the book , I shall only add somewhat concerning 8 THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
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... from the assaults of detraction ( though Horace brags at last , Jam dente minus mordeor invido ; ) but then the barkings of a few were drowned in the applause of all the rest of the world , and CUTTER OF COLEMAN STREET . 27.
... from the assaults of detraction ( though Horace brags at last , Jam dente minus mordeor invido ; ) but then the barkings of a few were drowned in the applause of all the rest of the world , and CUTTER OF COLEMAN STREET . 27.
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Abraham Cowley. applause of all the rest of the world , and the poison of their bitings extinguished by the antidote of great rewards and great encouragements , which is a way of curing now out of use ; and I really profess , that I ...
Abraham Cowley. applause of all the rest of the world , and the poison of their bitings extinguished by the antidote of great rewards and great encouragements , which is a way of curing now out of use ; and I really profess , that I ...
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Seite 224 - To-morrow you will live, you always cry; In what far country does this morrow lie, That 'tis so mighty long ere it arrive? Beyond the Indies does this morrow live? Tis so far-fetched, this morrow, that I fear Twill be both very old and very dear. To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itselfs too late, the wise lived yesterday.
Seite 222 - 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 205 - 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 229 - Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Seite 134 - ... 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. A silver stream shall roll his waters near, Gilt with the sunbeams here and there, On whose enamelled bank I 'll walk, And see how prettily they smile, and hear How prettily they talk.
Seite 179 - O'er all the vegetable world command ? And the wild giants of the wood receive What law he's pleased to give ? He bids the' ill-natured crab produce The gentler apple's winy juice; The golden fruit, that worthy is Of Galatea's purple kiss : He does the savage hawthorn teach To bear the medlar and the pear: He bids the rustic plum to rear A noble trunk, and be a peach.
Seite 83 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Seite 178 - Where does the wisdom and the power divine In a more bright and sweet reflection shine ? Where do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book ? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy Ev'n in a bush the radiant Deity.
Seite 176 - Allows the meanest gard'ner's board. The wanton taste no fish or fowl can choose, For which the grape or melon she would lose ; Though all th...
Seite 58 - ... to usurp three kingdoms without any shadow of the least pretensions, and to govern them as unjustly as he got them ? to set himself up as an idol (which we know, as St. Paul says, in itself is nothing), and make the very streets of London like the valley of Hinnon, by burning the bowels of men as a sacrifice to his Molochship...