The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Band 3John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... four steeds , The best and noblest that fresh Zerith breeds , All white as snow , and spriteful as the light , With scarlet trapt , and foaming gold they bite . He into it young David with him took , Did with respect and wonder on him ...
... four steeds , The best and noblest that fresh Zerith breeds , All white as snow , and spriteful as the light , With scarlet trapt , and foaming gold they bite . He into it young David with him took , Did with respect and wonder on him ...
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... four hundred years , from him to Saul , 60 " In too much freedom pass'd , or foreign thrall . " Oft strangers ' iron sceptres bruis'd the land " ( Such still are those borne by a conquering hand ) ; " Oft pitying God did well - form'd ...
... four hundred years , from him to Saul , 60 " In too much freedom pass'd , or foreign thrall . " Oft strangers ' iron sceptres bruis'd the land " ( Such still are those borne by a conquering hand ) ; " Oft pitying God did well - form'd ...
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... four ears , and to strike off three or four hundred heads ? to fight against an imaginary su- spicion of I know not what ? two thousand guards to be fetched for the king , I know not from whence , and to keep up for himself no less than ...
... four ears , and to strike off three or four hundred heads ? to fight against an imaginary su- spicion of I know not what ? two thousand guards to be fetched for the king , I know not from whence , and to keep up for himself no less than ...
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... four years , been made so many prisoners , only out of the endless jealousies of one tyrant's guilty imagination . I grant you , that Marius and Sylla , and the accursed triumvirate after them , put more people to death ; but the reason ...
... four years , been made so many prisoners , only out of the endless jealousies of one tyrant's guilty imagination . I grant you , that Marius and Sylla , and the accursed triumvirate after them , put more people to death ; but the reason ...
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... four profes- sors constituted ( for it would be too much work for only one master , or principal , as they call him there ) to teach these four parts of it : First , Ara- tion , and all things relating to it . Secondly , Pastur- age ...
... four profes- sors constituted ( for it would be too much work for only one master , or principal , as they call him there ) to teach these four parts of it : First , Ara- tion , and all things relating to it . Secondly , Pastur- age ...
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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...