The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Band 3John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... d the land 66 ( Such still are those borne by a conquering hand ) ; " Oft pitying God did well - form'd spirits raise , " Fit for the toilsome business of their days , 6.5 " To free the groaning nation , and to give B. IV . ] 5 DAVIDEIS .
... d the land 66 ( Such still are those borne by a conquering hand ) ; " Oft pitying God did well - form'd spirits raise , " Fit for the toilsome business of their days , 6.5 " To free the groaning nation , and to give B. IV . ] 5 DAVIDEIS .
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... give " Peace first , and then the rules in peace to live . " But they whose stamp of power did chiefly lie " In characters too fine for most men's eye , " Graces and gifts divine ; -not painted bright 70 " With state to awe dull minds ...
... give " Peace first , and then the rules in peace to live . " But they whose stamp of power did chiefly lie " In characters too fine for most men's eye , " Graces and gifts divine ; -not painted bright 70 " With state to awe dull minds ...
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... give , 380 " From whom high Heaven's chief gifts he must " receive : " Strange play of Fate ! when mightiest human things " Hang on such small , imperceptible strings ! " ' T was Samuel's birth - day ; a glad annual feast " All Rama ...
... give , 380 " From whom high Heaven's chief gifts he must " receive : " Strange play of Fate ! when mightiest human things " Hang on such small , imperceptible strings ! " ' T was Samuel's birth - day ; a glad annual feast " All Rama ...
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... 'er " He comes , plenty and joy attend him there : " To help seems all his power ; his wealth , to give ; " To do much good , his sole prerogative : 481 " And yet this general bounty of his mind , 20 [ B. IV . COWLEY'S POEMS .
... 'er " He comes , plenty and joy attend him there : " To help seems all his power ; his wealth , to give ; " To do much good , his sole prerogative : 481 " And yet this general bounty of his mind , 20 [ B. IV . COWLEY'S POEMS .
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... day's 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 .
... day's 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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Seite 209 - 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 182 - If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy Ev'n in a bush the radiant Deity. But we despise these his inferior ways (Though no less full of miracle and praise) : Upon the flowers of heaven we gaze ; The stars of earth no wonder in us raise, Though these perhaps do, more than they, The life of mankind sway.
Seite 230 - 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 234 - ... 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. - Nee vos, dulcissima mundi Nomina, vos Musae, libertas, otia, libri, Hortique sylvesque anima remanente relinquam.
Seite 233 - 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 174 - 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 pleasantest work of human industry, the improvement of something which we call...
Seite 173 - I never had any other desire so strong and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them and study of nature ; "And there, (with no design beyond my wall) whole and entire to lie, In no unactive ease and no unglorious poverty ; or, as Virgil has said, shorter and better for me.
Seite 135 - HAIL, old patrician trees, so great and good ! Hail, ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food, Pay with their grateful voice.
Seite 136 - 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 166 - To a lord's house, as lordly as can be, Made for the use of pride and luxury, They come ; the gentle courtier at the door Stops, and will hardly enter in before. But 'tis, sir, your command, and being so, I'm sworn t' obedience ; and so in they go.