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... Authors generally receive their worst wounds from those of their own craft ; and Cowley , no doubt , felt these bitterly . No wonder , then , that , as Johnson sneeringly says , and throughout the Dr. has a strong bias against the poet ...
... Authors generally receive their worst wounds from those of their own craft ; and Cowley , no doubt , felt these bitterly . No wonder , then , that , as Johnson sneeringly says , and throughout the Dr. has a strong bias against the poet ...
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... author , " says Dr. Johnson , ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his style has a smooth placid equability which has never yet obtained its due commendation . Nothing ...
... author , " says Dr. Johnson , ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his style has a smooth placid equability which has never yet obtained its due commendation . Nothing ...
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... laws which men have made themselves , Cowley's . The author wrote this essay in retirement , after suffering the ingratitude of Charles II . and being refused the Mastership of the Savoy . B what estate of life does best seat us in the ...
... laws which men have made themselves , Cowley's . The author wrote this essay in retirement , after suffering the ingratitude of Charles II . and being refused the Mastership of the Savoy . B what estate of life does best seat us in the ...
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... author , 3 Sometimes with sleep , sometimes with wine , we strive The cares of life and troubles to deceive . 4 But that is not to deceive the world , but to deceive our- selves , as Quintilian says , " vitam fallere , " to draw on ...
... author , 3 Sometimes with sleep , sometimes with wine , we strive The cares of life and troubles to deceive . 4 But that is not to deceive the world , but to deceive our- selves , as Quintilian says , " vitam fallere , " to draw on ...
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... author upon the several subjects which I treat of in this book , I must be obliged to trans- late half his works ; of which I may say more truly than , in my opinion , he did of Homer , Qui , quid sit pulchrum , quid turpe , quid utile ...
... author upon the several subjects which I treat of in this book , I must be obliged to trans- late half his works ; of which I may say more truly than , in my opinion , he did of Homer , Qui , quid sit pulchrum , quid turpe , quid utile ...
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Page 122 - The Wish Well then; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey of all earthly joy Does, of all meats, the soonest cloy; And they, methinks, deserve my pity Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings Of this great hive, the city. Ah yet, ere I descend to th...
Page 119 - This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave.
Page 118 - T is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself ;* it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from 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 121 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.
Page 7 - The books discussed in this volume are no less valuable than they are rare, and the compiler is entitled to the gratitude of the public. Observer. The Silent Hour : Essays, Original and Selected. By the Author of "The Gentle Life.
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Page 77 - If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat With any wish so mean as to be great; Continue, Heaven, still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love.