Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes: with a Preface and Notes by the Editor. ...T. Cadell, 1777 |
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... see through the ftyle of Ovid de Trift . the humbled and dejected condition of fpirit with which he wrote it ; there fcarce remains any footstep of that genius , -quem nec Jovis ira , nec ignes [ k ] , & c . The cold of the country had ...
... see through the ftyle of Ovid de Trift . the humbled and dejected condition of fpirit with which he wrote it ; there fcarce remains any footstep of that genius , -quem nec Jovis ira , nec ignes [ k ] , & c . The cold of the country had ...
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... See us , and clouds below . II . Ꭰ E. Ο Ν W IT . I. TELL me , O tell , what kind of thing is wit , Thou , who mafter art of it . being extravagant . Virgil's epic Mufe is here juftly characterized the Lyric , is a fwan of another ...
... See us , and clouds below . II . Ꭰ E. Ο Ν W IT . I. TELL me , O tell , what kind of thing is wit , Thou , who mafter art of it . being extravagant . Virgil's epic Mufe is here juftly characterized the Lyric , is a fwan of another ...
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... see No towns or houses [ ƒ ] rais'd by poetry . 5 . Yet , ' tis not to adorn , and gild each part ; That shows more cost , than art . Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear ; Rather , than all things , wit , let none be there Several ...
... see No towns or houses [ ƒ ] rais'd by poetry . 5 . Yet , ' tis not to adorn , and gild each part ; That shows more cost , than art . Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear ; Rather , than all things , wit , let none be there Several ...
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... See'ft not a foul cloath'd with more light than thine , 19 . And , if the glorious faints cease not to know Their wretched friends , who fight with life below ; Thy flame to me does ftill the fame abide , Only more pure and rarified ...
... See'ft not a foul cloath'd with more light than thine , 19 . And , if the glorious faints cease not to know Their wretched friends , who fight with life below ; Thy flame to me does ftill the fame abide , Only more pure and rarified ...
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... see ( Though out of feveral countries rais'd it be ) That all their order and their place maintain , The English , Dutch , the Frenchmen , and theDane , So thousand diverfe fpecies fill the air , Yet neither croud nor mix confus'dly ...
... see ( Though out of feveral countries rais'd it be ) That all their order and their place maintain , The English , Dutch , the Frenchmen , and theDane , So thousand diverfe fpecies fill the air , Yet neither croud nor mix confus'dly ...
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Página 117 - Ye fields of Cambridge, our dear Cambridge, say, Have ye not seen us walking every day? Was there a tree about which did not know The love betwixt us two? Henceforth, ye gentle trees, for ever fade ; Or your sad branches thicker join, And into darksome shades combine, Dark as the grave wherein my friend is laid...
Página 142 - Tis time to live if I grow old. "Tis time short pleasures now to take, Of little life the best to make, And manage wisely the last stake.
Página 160 - But I will briefer with them be, Since few of them were long with me. An higher and a nobler strain My present Emperess does claim, Heleonora, first o...
Página 85 - It is time to recover it out of the tyrant's hands, and to restore it to the kingdom of God, who is the father of it.
Página 139 - But an eternal health goes round. Fill up the bowl, then, fill it high, Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?
Página 139 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess...
Página 67 - This has been the case with Shakspeare, Fletcher, Jonson, and many others ; part of whose poems I should take the boldness to prune and lop away, if the care of replanting them in print did belong to me : neither would I make any scruple to cut off from some the unnecessary...
Página 213 - For every tree and every herb around With pearly dew was crown'd, And upon all the quicken'd ground The fruitful seed of Heaven did brooding lie, And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry.
Página 215 - Ah ! wanton foe, dost thou upbraid The ills which thou thyself hast made ? When in the cradle innocent I lay, Thou, wicked spirit, stolest me away, And my abused soul didst bear Into thy new-found worlds, I know not where...
Página 111 - tis not to adorn and gild each part; That shows more cost than art. Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit, let none be there, Several lights will not be seen, If there be nothing else between. Men doubt, because they stand so thick i* th' sky, If those be stars which paint the Galaxy.