The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Band 3John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... blood and gold ; " Weak beauties they corrupt , and force the strong ; " The pride of old men that , and this of young . 85 " You ' ve heard perhaps , Sir , of lewd Gibeah's " shame , " Which Hebrew tongues still tremble when they 66 ...
... blood and gold ; " Weak beauties they corrupt , and force the strong ; " The pride of old men that , and this of young . 85 " You ' ve heard perhaps , Sir , of lewd Gibeah's " shame , " Which Hebrew tongues still tremble when they 66 ...
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... blood it cost ; " Near a whole tribe , and future kings , we lost . " Firm in this general earthquake of the land , 100 " How could Religion , its main pillar , stand ? " Proud and fond man his Father's worship hates , Himself , God's ...
... blood it cost ; " Near a whole tribe , and future kings , we lost . " Firm in this general earthquake of the land , 100 " How could Religion , its main pillar , stand ? " Proud and fond man his Father's worship hates , Himself , God's ...
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... blood to " spill , " Where'er his guideless passion leads his will : " Ambition , lust , or spleen , his wars will raise ; " Your lives ' best price his thirst of wealth or praise : " Your ablest sons for his proud guards he'll take ...
... blood to " spill , " Where'er his guideless passion leads his will : " Ambition , lust , or spleen , his wars will raise ; " Your lives ' best price his thirst of wealth or praise : " Your ablest sons for his proud guards he'll take ...
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... pride , " Which foreign blood in nobler purple dy❜d . " Again the crown th ' assembled people give , " With greater joy than Saul could it receive ; " Again th ' old Judge resigns his sacred place B. IV . ] 25 DAVIDEIS .
... pride , " Which foreign blood in nobler purple dy❜d . " Again the crown th ' assembled people give , " With greater joy than Saul could it receive ; " Again th ' old Judge resigns his sacred place B. IV . ] 25 DAVIDEIS .
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... blood " Of an amazed wretch that next him stood . " Some close to earth , shaking and grovelling , lie , " Like larks when they the tyrant hobby spy ; 900 Some , wonder - strook , stand fix'd ; some fly ; some " arm " Wildly , at th ...
... blood " Of an amazed wretch that next him stood . " Some close to earth , shaking and grovelling , lie , " Like larks when they the tyrant hobby spy ; 900 Some , wonder - strook , stand fix'd ; some fly ; some " arm " Wildly , at th ...
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Seite 191 - 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 210 - 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...
Seite 213 - Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration, but the getting into some moderately convenient retreat in the country...
Seite 134 - But since nature denies to most men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the opportunities or possibility of applying themselves wholly to philosophy, the best mixture of human affairs that we can make are the employments of a country life.
Seite 68 - I have often observed (with all submission and resignation of spirit to the inscrutable mysteries of Eternal Providence), that, when the fulness and maturity of time is come, that produces the great confusions and changes in the world, it usually pleases God to make it appear, by the manner of them, that they are not the effects of human force or policy, but of the divine justice and predestination ; and, though we see a man, like that which we call Jack of the clock-house, striking, as it were,...
Seite 178 - As riches increase," says Solomon, " so do the mouths that devour them."* The master mouth has no more than before. The owner, methinks, is like Ocnus in the fable, who is perpetually winding a rope of hay, and an ass at the end perpetually eating it. Out of these inconveniences arises naturally one more, which is, that no greatness can be satisfied or contented with...
Seite 215 - Nor by me e'er shall you, You of all names the sweetest, and the best, You Muses, books, and liberty, and rest; You gardens, fields, and woods forsaken be, As long as life itself forsakes not me.
Seite 169 - tis that you should carry me away; And trust me not, my friends, if every day I walk not here with more delight, Than ever, after the most happy fight, In triumph to the Capitol I rode, To thank the gods, and to be thought myself almost a god.
Seite 208 - ... him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient, for my own contentment, that they have preserved me from being scandalous, or remarkable on the defective side.
Seite 160 - Nobilis otii, when he spoke of his own). But several accidents of my ill fortune have disappointed me hitherto, and do still, of that felicity; for though I have made the first and hardest step to it, by abandoning all ambitions and hopes in this World, and by retiring from the noise of all business and almost company, yet I stick still in the Inn of a hired House and Garden, among Weeds and Rubbish; and without that plesantest work of Human Industry, the Improvement of something which we call (not...