Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes, Band 2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772 |
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... honour to know . " AT Ar which he told me , " that he had no other concernment for his late high- nefs , than as he took him to be the greatest man that ever was of the Eng- lifh nation , if not ( faid he ) of the whole world ; which ...
... honour to know . " AT Ar which he told me , " that he had no other concernment for his late high- nefs , than as he took him to be the greatest man that ever was of the Eng- lifh nation , if not ( faid he ) of the whole world ; which ...
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... honour , and hazard of their fouls , had lifted him up to the top of his un- reasonable ambitions ? to break his faith with all enemies and with all friends [ b ] Sir T. Fairfax . VOL . II . C equally ? equally ? and to make no lefs ...
... honour , and hazard of their fouls , had lifted him up to the top of his un- reasonable ambitions ? to break his faith with all enemies and with all friends [ b ] Sir T. Fairfax . VOL . II . C equally ? equally ? and to make no lefs ...
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... honours in their dominions . Princes are but his vice- roys in the little provinces of this world ; and to fome he gives their places for a few years , to fome for their lives , and to others ( upon ends or deferts best known to himself ...
... honours in their dominions . Princes are but his vice- roys in the little provinces of this world ; and to fome he gives their places for a few years , to fome for their lives , and to others ( upon ends or deferts best known to himself ...
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... honour and liberty . So that , if Cromwell conquered any party , it was only that against which he was fent ; and what that was , muft appear by his commiffion . It was ( fays that ) against a company of evil counsellors and difaffected ...
... honour and liberty . So that , if Cromwell conquered any party , it was only that against which he was fent ; and what that was , muft appear by his commiffion . It was ( fays that ) against a company of evil counsellors and difaffected ...
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... honour of being founder of a new and more beautiful one ? He could not- have fuch a fhadow of virtue in his wicked- nefs , he meant only to rob more fecurely and more richly in midft of the com buftion ; he little thought then that he ...
... honour of being founder of a new and more beautiful one ? He could not- have fuch a fhadow of virtue in his wicked- nefs , he meant only to rob more fecurely and more richly in midft of the com buftion ; he little thought then that he ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 256 - 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.
Seite 258 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Seite 254 - ... 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.
Seite 122 - I hate, and yet I love thee too ; How can that be ? I know not how ; Only that so it is I know ; And feel with torment that 'tis so.
Seite 8 - I was interrupted by a strange and terrible apparition ; for there appeared to me (arising out of the earth, as I conceived) the figure of a man, taller than a giant, or indeed than the shadow of any giant in the evening.
Seite 3 - ... by ; and I retired back to my chamber, weary, and I think more melancholy than any of the mourners ; where I began to reflect...
Seite 14 - ... (for there is no end of all the particulars of his glory) to bequeath all this with one word to his posterity ; to die with peace at home, and triumph abroad ; to be buried among kings...
Seite 141 - We are here among the vast and noble scenes of nature ; we are there among the pitiful shifts of policy : we walk here in the light and open ways of the divine...
Seite 96 - This is but a deception of the sight through a false medium ; for if a groom serve a gentleman in his chamber, that gentleman a lord, and that lord a prince ; the groom, the gentleman, and the lord, are as much servants one as the other...
Seite 116 - Who by resolves and vows engag'd does stand For days, that yet belong to fate, Does, like an unthrift, mortgage his estate, Before it falls into his hand : The bondman of the cloister so...