The Works of Abraham Cowley, Band 3G. Kearsley, 1806 |
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... THOUGH state and kind discourse thus robb'd the night Of half her natural and more just delight , Moab ( whom temperance did still vigorous keep , And regal cares had us'd to moderate sleep ) 5 Up with the sun arose ; and , having.
... THOUGH state and kind discourse thus robb'd the night Of half her natural and more just delight , Moab ( whom temperance did still vigorous keep , And regal cares had us'd to moderate sleep ) 5 Up with the sun arose ; and , having.
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... night's story , and with greedier ear The man , of whom so much he heard , did hear . The well - born youth of all his flourishing court March gay behind , and joyful , to the sport ; Some arm'd with bows , some with straight javelins ...
... night's story , and with greedier ear The man , of whom so much he heard , did hear . The well - born youth of all his flourishing court March gay behind , and joyful , to the sport ; Some arm'd with bows , some with straight javelins ...
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... night " Of all those little suns eclips'd the light : " Sad signs of God's dread anger for our sin : - " But straight a wondrous brightness from within 315 " Strook through the curtains ; for no earthly cloud " Could those strong beams ...
... night " Of all those little suns eclips'd the light : " Sad signs of God's dread anger for our sin : - " But straight a wondrous brightness from within 315 " Strook through the curtains ; for no earthly cloud " Could those strong beams ...
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... night , " As the sun - beams , on jet reflecting , show ; " His hair , as black , in long curl'd waves did flow ; " His tall straight body amidst thousands stood , 350 " Like some fair pine o'erlooking all th ' ignobler " wood . " Of ...
... night , " As the sun - beams , on jet reflecting , show ; " His hair , as black , in long curl'd waves did flow ; " His tall straight body amidst thousands stood , 350 " Like some fair pine o'erlooking all th ' ignobler " wood . " Of ...
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... night they march , and are at th ' early dawn " On Jabesh ' heath in three fair bodies drawn : " Saul did himself the first and strongest band , " His son the next , Abner the third , command.- " But pardon , Sir , if , naming Saul's ...
... night they march , and are at th ' early dawn " On Jabesh ' heath in three fair bodies drawn : " Saul did himself the first and strongest band , " His son the next , Abner the third , command.- " But pardon , Sir , if , naming Saul's ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abdon Aglaüs Ammon avarice beasts beauty Beelzebub blood bold bright Catiline Cicero Columella command courage court Cromwell crown death delight devour diligence divine dost earth Edom envy Epicurus Ev'n fair fate fear fortune friends garden give God's gods happy Heaven honour human humble hundred HURD Incitatus industry innocent Jabesh justice of peace kind king land laws less liberty live lord lord Strafford lust luxury master methinks mighty mind Moab Nahash nation nature never noble noise numbers o'er OLIVER CROMWELL Ovid person pity pleasures poets pounds princes professors proud publick rich sacred Sapere aude Saul Saul's Seneca Senecio servants shew sight slaves sleep thee things thou thought thousand three kingdoms tion tree troops tyrant ultrà usurpation Varro Virg virtue whilst whole wicked wise wonder
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 227 - Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports...
Seite 206 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 146 - ... of all others, a perpetual companion of the husbandman: and that is, the satisfaction of looking round about him, and seeing nothing but the effects and improvements of his own art and diligence; to be always gathering of some fruits of it, and at the same time to behold others ripening, and others budding; to see all his fields and gardens covered with the beauteous creatures of his own industry; and to see, like God, that all his works are good.
Seite 54 - What can be more extraordinary, than that a person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage to attempt, and the happiness to succeed in, so improbable a design, as the destruction of one of the most ancient and most...
Seite 180 - Where does the wisdom and the power divine In a more bright and sweet reflection shine? Where do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the Book ? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy, Ev'n in a bush, the radiant Deity...
Seite 229 - I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found every where 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 230 - Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c.
Seite 80 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Seite 145 - 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 bounty ; we grope there in the dark and confused labyrinths of human malice : our senses are here feasted with the clear and genuine taste of their objects; which are all sophisticated there, and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries.
Seite 232 - ... separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her. - Nee vos, dulcissima mundi Nomina, vos Musae, libertas, otia, libri, Hortique sylvesque anima remanente relinquam.