Prose Works of Abraham Cowley ; Including His Essays in Prose and VerseW. Pickering, 1826 - 238 |
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... ment of their learning and manners . For you may re- member , Sir , we have often heard Mr. Cowley admire him , not only for the profoundness of his knowledge , which was applauded by all the world , but more espe- cially for those ...
... ment of their learning and manners . For you may re- member , Sir , we have often heard Mr. Cowley admire him , not only for the profoundness of his knowledge , which was applauded by all the world , but more espe- cially for those ...
Strona xi
... ment , should take occasion of giving notice of the posture of things in this nation . Upon his return , he found his country groaning under the oppression of an unjust usurpation ; and he soon felt the effects of it ; for , while he ...
... ment , should take occasion of giving notice of the posture of things in this nation . Upon his return , he found his country groaning under the oppression of an unjust usurpation ; and he soon felt the effects of it ; for , while he ...
Strona xxxv
... ment , while the other strive to get into it , the affairs of mankind are like to be in so ill a posture , that even the good men themselves will hardly be able to enjoy their very retreats in security . Yet , I confess , if any ...
... ment , while the other strive to get into it , the affairs of mankind are like to be in so ill a posture , that even the good men themselves will hardly be able to enjoy their very retreats in security . Yet , I confess , if any ...
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... ment than a little tomb of marble , or by the unworthy avarice of some stationers , who are content to dimi- nish the value of the author , so they may increase the price of the book ; and , like vintners , with sophisticate mixtures ...
... ment than a little tomb of marble , or by the unworthy avarice of some stationers , who are content to dimi- nish the value of the author , so they may increase the price of the book ; and , like vintners , with sophisticate mixtures ...
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... ment , and to embellish with the most remarkable an- tiquities of the Jews , and of other nations before or at that age . But I have had neither leisure hitherto , nor have appetite at present , to finish the work , or so much as to ...
... ment , and to embellish with the most remarkable an- tiquities of the Jews , and of other nations before or at that age . But I have had neither leisure hitherto , nor have appetite at present , to finish the work , or so much as to ...
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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...