Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes, Band 2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772 |
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... please to call it but a dream , I fhall not take it ill , because the father of poets tells us , even dreams , too , are from God . But fure it was no dream ; for I was fuddenly tranfported afar off ( whether in the body , or out of the ...
... please to call it but a dream , I fhall not take it ill , because the father of poets tells us , even dreams , too , are from God . But fure it was no dream ; for I was fuddenly tranfported afar off ( whether in the body , or out of the ...
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... please to pardon me , if I had unwittingly spoken any thing to the difparagement of a perfon , whose relations to his highnefs I had not the honour to know . " AT Ar which he told me , " that he had no other concernment for his late ...
... please to pardon me , if I had unwittingly spoken any thing to the difparagement of a perfon , whose relations to his highnefs I had not the honour to know . " AT Ar which he told me , " that he had no other concernment for his late ...
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... please to be hired , at the rate of two mil- lions a year , to be the master of those who had hired him before to be their fer- vant ; to have the eftates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal , as was the little ...
... please to be hired , at the rate of two mil- lions a year , to be the master of those who had hired him before to be their fer- vant ; to have the eftates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal , as was the little ...
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... mention . Though it can hardly be fpoken or thought of without paffion , yet I fhall , if you please , argue it more calmly than the cafe deserves . D 2 The 1 The right certainly of conqueft can only be exercised OF OLIVER CROMWELL . 35.
... mention . Though it can hardly be fpoken or thought of without paffion , yet I fhall , if you please , argue it more calmly than the cafe deserves . D 2 The 1 The right certainly of conqueft can only be exercised OF OLIVER CROMWELL . 35.
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... turn about , as they please , fo great a wheel ; I fhall fpeak first a few words upon this univerfal propofition , which feems fo reasonable , and is fo popu- lar , 1 lar , before I defcend to the particular exa- OF OLIVER CROMWELL . 43.
... turn about , as they please , fo great a wheel ; I fhall fpeak first a few words upon this univerfal propofition , which feems fo reasonable , and is fo popu- lar , 1 lar , before I defcend to the particular exa- OF OLIVER CROMWELL . 43.
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againſt almoſt antient becauſe befides beft beſt bufinefs cafe chooſe Cicero confefs conqueft Cowley death defign defire dili doft earth eftate expreffed fafe faid fame fatire fear feems felf fenfe fervants fhall fhort fhould fight fince firft firſt flave fleep fmall folitude fome fometimes fooliſh fortune friends ftand ftill ftorms fubject fuch fure greatneſs happineſs happy himſelf honour Horace houſe induſtry itſelf juft juſt king laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs liberty live lord mafter methinks moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never noble numbers obferved OLIVER CROMWELL Ovid paſs perfon Pindaric pleaſe pleaſure poet prefent princes raiſe reafon reft rich ſay ſee ſhall ſpeak ſtate ſtay ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand Triarii tyrant ufurpation ultrà underſtand uſe verfes verſe Virg virtue whilft whofe whole wife
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...