The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volumen1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... delight to read , till , by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents , which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes for- gotten , produce that particular ...
... delight to read , till , by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents , which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes for- gotten , produce that particular ...
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... delights of solitary studies , of temperate " pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the " malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen , and so differ- ently are they shewn ; but actions are visible , though ...
... delights of solitary studies , of temperate " pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the " malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen , and so differ- ently are they shewn ; but actions are visible , though ...
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... delight , Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed ; Good fortunes without gain imported be , Such mighty custom's ...
... delight , Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed ; Good fortunes without gain imported be , Such mighty custom's ...
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... delight , by their desire of exciting admi- ration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a ge- neral representation of the style and sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley ...
... delight , by their desire of exciting admi- ration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a ge- neral representation of the style and sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley ...
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... delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! nostro manat ab ...
... delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! nostro manat ab ...
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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.