Select Works of Mr. A. CowleyJ. Exshaw, D. Chamberlaine, W. Sleater [and 4 others], 1772 |
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... cafe of our troubles in England : and that they seem only to be meant for a tem- porary chastisement of our fins , and not for a total abolishment of the old , and introduction of a new government , appears probably to me from these ...
... cafe of our troubles in England : and that they seem only to be meant for a tem- porary chastisement of our fins , and not for a total abolishment of the old , and introduction of a new government , appears probably to me from these ...
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... cafe of Mr. Coney , to be difputed by a legal trial , he ( which was the high- eft a & t of tyranny that ever was seen in England ) not only discouraged and threatened , but violent- ly imprisoned the council of the plaintiff ; that is ...
... cafe of Mr. Coney , to be difputed by a legal trial , he ( which was the high- eft a & t of tyranny that ever was seen in England ) not only discouraged and threatened , but violent- ly imprisoned the council of the plaintiff ; that is ...
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... cafe of greatnefs ; we enter into the bonds of it , like those of matrimony ; we are bewitched with the outward and painted beauty , and take it for better or worse , before we know its true nature and interior inconveniences . A great ...
... cafe of greatnefs ; we enter into the bonds of it , like those of matrimony ; we are bewitched with the outward and painted beauty , and take it for better or worse , before we know its true nature and interior inconveniences . A great ...
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... body . It was the cafe of Æneas and his Achates , when they [ i ] Hor . Lib . II . Sat. vii . 114 . [ k ] Declam , de Apib . walked walked invisibly about the fields and streets of Carthage ; 94 ESSAYS IN VERSE AND PROSE.
... body . It was the cafe of Æneas and his Achates , when they [ i ] Hor . Lib . II . Sat. vii . 114 . [ k ] Declam , de Apib . walked walked invisibly about the fields and streets of Carthage ; 94 ESSAYS IN VERSE AND PROSE.
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... cafe thus judg'd against the king we fee , By one , that would not be fo rich , though wifer far than he . 8 . Nor does this happy place only difpenfe Such various pleasures to the fenfe Here health itself does live , That falt of life ...
... cafe thus judg'd against the king we fee , By one , that would not be fo rich , though wifer far than he . 8 . Nor does this happy place only difpenfe Such various pleasures to the fenfe Here health itself does live , That falt of life ...
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Seite 197 - 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 196 - For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Seite 102 - ... the means of doing it be as easy and certain in this, as in any other track of commerce. If there were always two or three thousand youths, for seven or eight years, bound to this profession, that they might learn the whole art of it, and afterwards be enabled to be...
Seite 133 - Among many other arts and excellencies, which you enjoy, I am glad to find this favourite of mine the most predominant ; that you choose this for your wife, though...
Seite 79 - To thy bent mind some relaxation give, And steal one day out of thy life to live. Oh happy man (he cries) to whom kind Heaven Has such a freedom always given ! Why, mighty madman, what should hinder thee From...
Seite 100 - To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world ; or rather, a, retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
Seite 10 - ... them; and lastly (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, and with more than regal solemnity ; and to leave a name behind him, not to be extinguished...
Seite 87 - ... passions, a man had better be in a fair than in a wood alone. They may, like petty thieves, cheat us perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company, but like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us when they catch us alone. This is but to retreat from men, and fall into the hands of devils.
Seite 131 - I NEVER had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study of nature ; And there (with no design beyond my wall) whole and intire to lie, In no unactive ease, and no unglorious poverty.
Seite 6 - 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.