Prose Works of Abraham Cowley ; Including His Essays in Prose and VerseW. Pickering, 1826 - 238 |
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Strona xiii
... kind of decla- ration of his peaceable intentions . This was then his opinion ; and the success of things seems to prove , that it was not very ill grounded ; for , certainly , it was one of the greatest helps to the King's affairs ...
... kind of decla- ration of his peaceable intentions . This was then his opinion ; and the success of things seems to prove , that it was not very ill grounded ; for , certainly , it was one of the greatest helps to the King's affairs ...
Strona xix
Abraham Cowley. arguments must have different colours of speech : that there is a kind of variety of sexes in poetry , as well as in mankind : that , as the peculiar excellence of the feminine kind is smoothness and beauty , so strength ...
Abraham Cowley. arguments must have different colours of speech : that there is a kind of variety of sexes in poetry , as well as in mankind : that , as the peculiar excellence of the feminine kind is smoothness and beauty , so strength ...
Strona xx
... kind of apology for that sort of writings . If devout or virtuous men will superciliously forbid the minds of the young to adorn those subjects about which they are most conversant , they would put them out of all capacity of performing ...
... kind of apology for that sort of writings . If devout or virtuous men will superciliously forbid the minds of the young to adorn those subjects about which they are most conversant , they would put them out of all capacity of performing ...
Strona xxii
... kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects : for the pleasant , the grave , the amorous , the heroic , the philosophical , the moral , the divine . Besides this , they will find , that the frequent alteration of the rhythm and feet ...
... kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects : for the pleasant , the grave , the amorous , the heroic , the philosophical , the moral , the divine . Besides this , they will find , that the frequent alteration of the rhythm and feet ...
Strona xxv
... kind of wit , but the worst sort of ill - manners . This , perhaps , some men would be loth to hear proved , who prac- tise it under the false title of a genteel quality : but the truth of it is unquestionable . For the ordinary ill ...
... kind of wit , but the worst sort of ill - manners . This , perhaps , some men would be loth to hear proved , who prac- tise it under the false title of a genteel quality : but the truth of it is unquestionable . For the ordinary ill ...
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Strona 224 - To-morrow you will live, you always cry; In what far country does this morrow lie, That 'tis so mighty long ere it arrive? Beyond the Indies does this morrow live? Tis so far-fetched, this morrow, that I fear Twill be both very old and very dear. To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itselfs too late, the wise lived yesterday.
Strona 222 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Strona 205 - 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.
Strona 229 - 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, that happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Strona 134 - ... let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute. A silver stream shall roll his waters near, Gilt with the sunbeams here and there, On whose enamelled bank I 'll walk, And see how prettily they smile, and hear How prettily they talk.
Strona 179 - O'er all the vegetable world command ? And the wild giants of the wood receive What law he's pleased to give ? He bids the' ill-natured crab produce The gentler apple's winy juice; The golden fruit, that worthy is Of Galatea's purple kiss : He does the savage hawthorn teach To bear the medlar and the pear: He bids the rustic plum to rear A noble trunk, and be a peach.
Strona 83 - 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.
Strona 178 - 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.
Strona 176 - Allows the meanest gard'ner's board. The wanton taste no fish or fowl can choose, For which the grape or melon she would lose ; Though all th...
Strona 58 - ... to usurp three kingdoms without any shadow of the least pretensions, and to govern them as unjustly as he got them ? to set himself up as an idol (which we know, as St. Paul says, in itself is nothing), and make the very streets of London like the valley of Hinnon, by burning the bowels of men as a sacrifice to his Molochship...