The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volumen1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... better man in England . " He is represented by Dr. Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials ...
... better man in England . " He is represented by Dr. Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials ...
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... better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has rightly denomi- nated poetry τεx puntinn , an imitative art , these writers ...
... better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has rightly denomi- nated poetry τεx puntinn , an imitative art , these writers ...
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... better taste ; If it take air before , its spirits waste . To the following comparison of a man that travels , and his wife that stays at home , with a pair of compasses , it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the better ...
... better taste ; If it take air before , its spirits waste . To the following comparison of a man that travels , and his wife that stays at home , with a pair of compasses , it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the better ...
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... better choice , and not fathered the bastard upon such a person , whose stock of re- putation is , I fear , little enough for maintenance of his own numerous legitimate offspring of that kind . It would have been much less injurious ...
... better choice , and not fathered the bastard upon such a person , whose stock of re- putation is , I fear , little enough for maintenance of his own numerous legitimate offspring of that kind . It would have been much less injurious ...
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... better than those of another man , though never so rich : but these , to say the truth , were so beggarly , that I my- self was ashamed to wear them . It was in vain for me , that I avoided censure by the concealment of my own writings ...
... better than those of another man , though never so rich : but these , to say the truth , were so beggarly , that I my- self was ashamed to wear them . It was in vain for me , that I avoided censure by the concealment of my own writings ...
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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.