Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes, Band 2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772 |
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... law or rule to fail , And rather take the winds , than heavens , to be their guide ? 8 ... Yet , mighty God , yet , yet , we humbly crave , This floating itle from shipwreck save ; And though , to wash that blood which does it ftain ...
... law or rule to fail , And rather take the winds , than heavens , to be their guide ? 8 ... Yet , mighty God , yet , yet , we humbly crave , This floating itle from shipwreck save ; And though , to wash that blood which does it ftain ...
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... laws of the New and Old Testament , and those which are the foundation of both , even the laws of moral and natural ho- nefty , if we approve of the actions of that man whom I fuppofe you commend by Irony . [ 8 ] of my baptifm ] In ...
... laws of the New and Old Testament , and those which are the foundation of both , even the laws of moral and natural ho- nefty , if we approve of the actions of that man whom I fuppofe you commend by Irony . [ 8 ] of my baptifm ] In ...
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... laws which were his fuperiors and in all these fenfes , no history can afford us a more evident example of tyranny , or more out of all poffibility of excufe , or palliation , than that of the per- fon whom you are pleased to defend ...
... laws which were his fuperiors and in all these fenfes , no history can afford us a more evident example of tyranny , or more out of all poffibility of excufe , or palliation , than that of the per- fon whom you are pleased to defend ...
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... law- ful princes have been esteemed tyrants , by not containing themselves within the bounds of thofe laws which have been left them , as the sphere of their authority , by their forefathers , what fhall we fay of that man , who ...
... law- ful princes have been esteemed tyrants , by not containing themselves within the bounds of thofe laws which have been left them , as the sphere of their authority , by their forefathers , what fhall we fay of that man , who ...
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... bold unquestiona- bly for a man , in defiance of all human and divine laws ( and with fo little proba- bility of a long impunity ) , fo publicly E 4 and and so outrageously to murder his masters . it was OF OLIVER CROMWELL . 55.
... bold unquestiona- bly for a man , in defiance of all human and divine laws ( and with fo little proba- bility of a long impunity ) , fo publicly E 4 and and so outrageously to murder his masters . it was OF OLIVER CROMWELL . 55.
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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...