Poems: Miscellanies, The Mistress, Pindarique Odes, Davideis, Verses Written on Several Occasions |
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... thought fit to reject in this publica- tion : As first , all those which I wrote at School from the age of ten years , till after fifteen ; for even so far backward there remain yet some traces of me in the little footsteps of a child ...
... thought fit to reject in this publica- tion : As first , all those which I wrote at School from the age of ten years , till after fifteen ; for even so far backward there remain yet some traces of me in the little footsteps of a child ...
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... thought Free - men of their Company , without paying some duties , and obliging themselves to be true to Love . Sooner or later they must all pass through that Tryal , like some Mahumetan Monks , that are bound by their Order , once at ...
... thought Free - men of their Company , without paying some duties , and obliging themselves to be true to Love . Sooner or later they must all pass through that Tryal , like some Mahumetan Monks , that are bound by their Order , once at ...
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... thought That you in any thing were to be Taught . Correct my error with thy Pen ; And if any ask me then , What thing right Wit , and height of Genius is , I'll onely shew your Lines , and say , ' Tis This . To the Lord Falkland . For ...
... thought That you in any thing were to be Taught . Correct my error with thy Pen ; And if any ask me then , What thing right Wit , and height of Genius is , I'll onely shew your Lines , and say , ' Tis This . To the Lord Falkland . For ...
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... Chance did you deprive Of Liberty , at first I could not grieve ; My thoughts a while , like you , Imprison'd lay ; Great Joys as well as Sorrows make a Stay ; They hinder one another in the Crowd , And none 28 ABRAHAM COWLEY.
... Chance did you deprive Of Liberty , at first I could not grieve ; My thoughts a while , like you , Imprison'd lay ; Great Joys as well as Sorrows make a Stay ; They hinder one another in the Crowd , And none 28 ABRAHAM COWLEY.
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... thought the time would ever bee , That I should Wit in Dwarfish Posies see . As all Words in Few Letters live , Thou to few Words all Sense dost give . ' Twas Nature taught you this rare art In such a Little Much to shew , Who all the ...
... thought the time would ever bee , That I should Wit in Dwarfish Posies see . As all Words in Few Letters live , Thou to few Words all Sense dost give . ' Twas Nature taught you this rare art In such a Little Much to shew , Who all the ...
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Page 280 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 361 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Page 211 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 49 - Elisha-like (but with a wish much less, More fit thy greatness, and my littleness) Lo here I beg (I whom thou once didst prove So humble to esteem, so good to love) Not that thy spirit might on me doubled be, I ask but half thy mighty spirit for me ; And when my muse soars with so strong a wing, 'Twill learn of things divine, and first of thee to sing.
Page 41 - 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...
Page 34 - 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...
Page 16 - Yonder we saw it plain ; and here 'tis now, Like spirits in a place, we know not how. London that vents of false ware so much store, In no ware deceives us more. For men led by the colour, and the shape, Like Zeuxis...
Page 237 - For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
Page 88 - I descend to the grave May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too!
Page 217 - Judgment also will I lay to the line, And righteousness to the plummet: And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters shall overflow the hiding place.