The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volume 3John Sharpe, 1809 - English poetry |
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... desire a king ; " And to their Judge selected deputies bring 66 66 " This harsh demand ; which Nacol for the rest ( A bold and artful mouth ) thus with much grace express'd : - 66 195 " We're come , most sacred Judge , to pay th'arrears ...
... desire a king ; " And to their Judge selected deputies bring 66 66 " This harsh demand ; which Nacol for the rest ( A bold and artful mouth ) thus with much grace express'd : - 66 195 " We're come , most sacred Judge , to pay th'arrears ...
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... desire . " Some gracious signs of thy good pleasure send ; " Which , lo ! with souls resign'd , we humbly here " attend . " He spoke , and thrice he bow'd , and all about " Silence and reverend horror seiz'd the rout ; 305 " The whole ...
... desire . " Some gracious signs of thy good pleasure send ; " Which , lo ! with souls resign'd , we humbly here " attend . " He spoke , and thrice he bow'd , and all about " Silence and reverend horror seiz'd the rout ; 305 " The whole ...
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... desire of the seamen and passengers themselves . And do but consider , lastly ( for I omit a multitude of weighty things that might be spoken upon this noble argument ) , do but consider seriously and impartially with yourself , what ...
... desire of the seamen and passengers themselves . And do but consider , lastly ( for I omit a multitude of weighty things that might be spoken upon this noble argument ) , do but consider seriously and impartially with yourself , what ...
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... desire you to allow me the liberty to do so too when I am to speak of his morals . The truth of the thing is this , that if craft be wisdom , and dissimulation wit ( assisted both and improved with hypocrisies and perjuries ) , I must ...
... desire you to allow me the liberty to do so too when I am to speak of his morals . The truth of the thing is this , that if craft be wisdom , and dissimulation wit ( assisted both and improved with hypocrisies and perjuries ) , I must ...
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... desire them to consider , how , since the English name was ever heard of , it never received so great and so infamous a blow as under the imprudent conduct of this unlucky Faus- tus and herein let me admire the justice of God in this ...
... desire them to consider , how , since the English name was ever heard of , it never received so great and so infamous a blow as under the imprudent conduct of this unlucky Faus- tus and herein let me admire the justice of God in this ...
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Page 191 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 210 - Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports...
Page 213 - Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration, but the getting into some moderately convenient retreat in the country...
Page 134 - But since nature denies to most men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the opportunities or possibility of applying themselves wholly to philosophy, the best mixture of human affairs that we can make are the employments of a country life.
Page 68 - I have often observed (with all submission and resignation of spirit to the inscrutable mysteries of Eternal Providence), that, when the fulness and maturity of time is come, that produces the great confusions and changes in the world, it usually pleases God to make it appear, by the manner of them, that they are not the effects of human force or policy, but of the divine justice and predestination ; and, though we see a man, like that which we call Jack of the clock-house, striking, as it were,...
Page 178 - As riches increase," says Solomon, " so do the mouths that devour them."* The master mouth has no more than before. The owner, methinks, is like Ocnus in the fable, who is perpetually winding a rope of hay, and an ass at the end perpetually eating it. Out of these inconveniences arises naturally one more, which is, that no greatness can be satisfied or contented with...
Page 215 - Nor by me e'er shall you, You of all names the sweetest, and the best, You Muses, books, and liberty, and rest; You gardens, fields, and woods forsaken be, As long as life itself forsakes not me.
Page 169 - tis that you should carry me away; And trust me not, my friends, if every day I walk not here with more delight, Than ever, after the most happy fight, In triumph to the Capitol I rode, To thank the gods, and to be thought myself almost a god.
Page 208 - ... him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient, for my own contentment, that they have preserved me from being scandalous, or remarkable on the defective side.
Page 160 - Nobilis otii, when he spoke of his own). But several accidents of my ill fortune have disappointed me hitherto, and do still, of that felicity; for though I have made the first and hardest step to it, by abandoning all ambitions and hopes in this World, and by retiring from the noise of all business and almost company, yet I stick still in the Inn of a hired House and Garden, among Weeds and Rubbish; and without that plesantest work of Human Industry, the Improvement of something which we call (not...