Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes, Band 2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772 |
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... tects him from , could do more . Such a protector " and as I was proceeding , me - thoughts , his highnefs began to put on [ ] Meaning the Commonwealth . 1 a dif a difpleafed and threatening countenance , as men ufe to ΤΟ ON THE GOVERNMENT.
... tects him from , could do more . Such a protector " and as I was proceeding , me - thoughts , his highnefs began to put on [ ] Meaning the Commonwealth . 1 a dif a difpleafed and threatening countenance , as men ufe to ΤΟ ON THE GOVERNMENT.
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... , but out of love and charity to the living : that the curfes , which only remain in mens thoughts , and dare not come forth againft tyrants ( because they they are tyrants ) whilft they are so , may 20 ON THE GOVERNMENT.
... , but out of love and charity to the living : that the curfes , which only remain in mens thoughts , and dare not come forth againft tyrants ( because they they are tyrants ) whilft they are so , may 20 ON THE GOVERNMENT.
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... thought them ) , and keep them for ever fheathed in the bowels of his friends ? did we fight for liberty , againft our prince , that we might become flaves to our fervant ? This is fuch an impudent pretence , as neither he nor any of ...
... thought them ) , and keep them for ever fheathed in the bowels of his friends ? did we fight for liberty , againft our prince , that we might become flaves to our fervant ? This is fuch an impudent pretence , as neither he nor any of ...
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... thought then that he fhould ever have been able to make him- > felf master of the palace , as well as plunder the goods of the commonwealth . He was glad to fee the public veffel ( the fovereign : of the feas ) in as defperate a ...
... thought then that he fhould ever have been able to make him- > felf master of the palace , as well as plunder the goods of the commonwealth . He was glad to fee the public veffel ( the fovereign : of the feas ) in as defperate a ...
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... at laft : neither did any man seem to do it , but those who thought they gained as much by that diffembling , as he did by his . His very actings of godliness grew Y at • ¿ at laft as ridiculous , as if a ON THE GOVERNMENT.
... at laft : neither did any man seem to do it , but those who thought they gained as much by that diffembling , as he did by his . His very actings of godliness grew Y at • ¿ at laft as ridiculous , as if a ON THE GOVERNMENT.
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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...