The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Band 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was * This is a mistake , as Cowley was at that time ( 1633 ) fifteen years of age . not published till he had been some time at Cam- iv COWLEY . The ...
... While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was * This is a mistake , as Cowley was at that time ( 1633 ) fifteen years of age . not published till he had been some time at Cam- iv COWLEY . The ...
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... while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after ...
... while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after ...
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... while others for their " money carried away most places , he retired ❝ discontented into Surrey . ” " He was now , " says the courtly Sprat , " weary " of the vexations and formalities of an active " condition . He had been perplexed ...
... while others for their " money carried away most places , he retired ❝ discontented into Surrey . ” " He was now , " says the courtly Sprat , " weary " of the vexations and formalities of an active " condition . He had been perplexed ...
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... Whilst Pride , the rugged Northern Bear , In others makes the cold too great . And where these are temperate known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A lover burnt up by his affection is compared to Egypt : The ...
... Whilst Pride , the rugged Northern Bear , In others makes the cold too great . And where these are temperate known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A lover burnt up by his affection is compared to Egypt : The ...
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... Whilst you live by the fleet Gregorian . CLEIVELAND . Of enormous and disgusting hyperboles , these may be examples : By every wind that comes this way , Send me at least a sigh or two , Such and so many I'll repay As shall themselves ...
... Whilst you live by the fleet Gregorian . CLEIVELAND . Of enormous and disgusting hyperboles , these may be examples : By every wind that comes this way , Send me at least a sigh or two , Such and so many I'll repay As shall themselves ...
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Seite ii - ... relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and, perhaps, sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is com.monly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Seite 167 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Seite lii - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Seite xxviii - ... a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together...
Seite 61 - If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embassies, and spies, The frowns, and smiles, and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries (Numberless, nameless, mysteries...
Seite 28 - Women love't, either in Love or Dress. A thousand different shapes it bears, Comely in thousand shapes appears. Yonder we saw it plain ; and here 'tis now, Like Spirits in a Place, we know not How.
Seite 166 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others...
Seite lxxxix - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Seite lxxx - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red; An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Seite 81 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy ; Nor does thy luxury destroy.