Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes, Band 2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772 |
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... look ( methinks ) as if God had forfaken the family of that man , from whom he has raifed up five children , of as eminent vir- tue , and all other commendable qualities , as ever lived perhaps ( for fo many to- gether , and fo young ) ...
... look ( methinks ) as if God had forfaken the family of that man , from whom he has raifed up five children , of as eminent vir- tue , and all other commendable qualities , as ever lived perhaps ( for fo many to- gether , and fo young ) ...
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... look ( I must confefs ) like envy , or too much partiality , if I should say Tahap perfonal kind of courage had been deficient in the man we speak of ; I am confident it was not : and yet I may ven- ture , ture , I think , to affirm ...
... look ( I must confefs ) like envy , or too much partiality , if I should say Tahap perfonal kind of courage had been deficient in the man we speak of ; I am confident it was not : and yet I may ven- ture , ture , I think , to affirm ...
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... look upon all the circum- ftances , without perceiving , that it was purely the fale and facrificing of the greateft advantages that this countrey could ever hope , and was ready to reap , from a fo- reign war , to the private interefts ...
... look upon all the circum- ftances , without perceiving , that it was purely the fale and facrificing of the greateft advantages that this countrey could ever hope , and was ready to reap , from a fo- reign war , to the private interefts ...
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... look upon that author , when you would recollect all the particulars and circumftances of the iniquity . The other defign , of raifing a prefent fum of money , is one , entituled , " On my Lord Croft's and my journey into Poland , from ...
... look upon that author , when you would recollect all the particulars and circumftances of the iniquity . The other defign , of raifing a prefent fum of money , is one , entituled , " On my Lord Croft's and my journey into Poland , from ...
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... look ) is fo great in this world , and I am so powerful a monarch of it , that I need not be afhamed that you fhould know me ; and that you may see I know you too , I know you to be an obstinate and inveterate malignant ; and for that ...
... look ) is fo great in this world , and I am so powerful a monarch of it , that I need not be afhamed that you fhould know me ; and that you may see I know you too , I know you to be an obstinate and inveterate malignant ; and for that ...
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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...