The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volume 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster - school , where he was soon di- stinguished . He was wont , says Sprat ...
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster - school , where he was soon di- stinguished . He was wont , says Sprat ...
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... present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholar- ship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
... present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholar- ship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
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... present , but hardly ap- propriated . The ode on wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intellection , in contra- distinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
... present , but hardly ap- propriated . The ode on wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intellection , in contra- distinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
Page lix
... present day , he has given rather a pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern ...
... present day , he has given rather a pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern ...
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In Prose and Verse Abraham Cowley Richard Hurd. our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way ...
In Prose and Verse Abraham Cowley Richard Hurd. our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way ...
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Page 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.
Page 167 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.