The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volumen1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... Muses . " The neglect of the court was not his only mor- tification . Having , by such alteration as he thought proper , fitted his old comedy of " The Guardian " for the stage , he produced it under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman ...
... Muses . " The neglect of the court was not his only mor- tification . Having , by such alteration as he thought proper , fitted his old comedy of " The Guardian " for the stage , he produced it under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman ...
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... muse , for want of which the second couplet is without reference . When the title is added , there will still remain a defect ; for every piece ought to contain in itself whatever is necessary to make it intelligible . Pope has some ...
... muse , for want of which the second couplet is without reference . When the title is added , there will still remain a defect ; for every piece ought to contain in itself whatever is necessary to make it intelligible . Pope has some ...
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... muse- Hold thy Pindaric Pegasus closely in , Which does to rage begin- -'Tis an unruly and a hard - mouth'd horse- " Twill no unskilful touch endure , But flings writer and reader too that sits not sure . The fault of Cowley , and ...
... muse- Hold thy Pindaric Pegasus closely in , Which does to rage begin- -'Tis an unruly and a hard - mouth'd horse- " Twill no unskilful touch endure , But flings writer and reader too that sits not sure . The fault of Cowley , and ...
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... Muse , who goes to take the air in an intellectual chariot , to which he harnesses Fancy and Judgement , Wit and Eloquence , Memory and Invention . How he distinguished wit from fancy , or how memory could properly contribute to mo ...
... Muse , who goes to take the air in an intellectual chariot , to which he harnesses Fancy and Judgement , Wit and Eloquence , Memory and Invention . How he distinguished wit from fancy , or how memory could properly contribute to mo ...
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... muse , he gives her prescience , or , in poetical lan- guage , the foresight of events hatching in futu- rity ; but having once an egg in his mind , he can- not forbear to shew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the close ...
... muse , he gives her prescience , or , in poetical lan- guage , the foresight of events hatching in futu- rity ; but having once an egg in his mind , he can- not forbear to shew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the close ...
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Página ii - ... relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and, perhaps, sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is com.monly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 167 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página lii - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Página xxviii - ... a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together...
Página 61 - If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embassies, and spies, The frowns, and smiles, and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries (Numberless, nameless, mysteries...
Página 28 - Women love't, either in Love or Dress. A thousand different shapes it bears, Comely in thousand shapes appears. Yonder we saw it plain ; and here 'tis now, Like Spirits in a Place, we know not How.
Página 166 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others...
Página lxxxix - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página lxxx - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red; An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Página 81 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy ; Nor does thy luxury destroy.