 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - Liczba stron: 378
...writings. None but his intimate friends ever discovered he was a great poet, by his discourse. His learning was large and profound, well composed of all ancient and modern knowledge. But it sate exceeding close and handsomely upon him : it was not imbossed on his mind, but enamelled *." As... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - Liczba stron: 376
...writings. None but his intimate friends ever discovered he was a great poet, by his discourse. His learning was large and profound, well composed of all ancient and modern knowledge. But it sate exceeding close and handsomely upon him : it wag not imbossed on his mind, but enamelled *." As... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - Liczba stron: 298
...writings. None but his intimate friends ever discovered he was a great poet, by his discourse. His learning was large and profound, well composed of all ancient...handsomely upon him : it was not embossed on his mind, but enamelled. He never guided his life by the whispers or opinions of the world : yet he had a great reverence... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - Liczba stron: 296
...writings. None but his intimate friends ever discovered he was a great poet, by his discourse. His learning was large and profound, well composed of all ancient...handsomely upon him : it was not embossed on his mind, but enamelled. He never guided his life by the whispers or opinions of the world : yet he had a great reverence... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - Liczba stron: 298
...writings. None but his intimate friends ever discovered he was a great poet, by his discourse. His learning was large and profound, well composed of all ancient...handsomely upon him : it was not embossed on his mind, but enamelled. He never guided his life by the whispers or opinions of the world : yet he had a great reverence... | |
 | 1839 - Liczba stron: 864
...nothing seems to be studied, but everything is extraordinary. Cowley's learning, he says, sat exceedingly close and handsomely upon him ; it was not embossed on his mind, but enamelled. Nov. 20. — Read Godivins Lives of the Philipses, Milton's nephews, containing anecdotes... | |
 | William Dowling - 1857 - Liczba stron: 412
...of science. Denham says, " To him no author was unknown ;" and bishop Sprat declares, " his learning was large and profound, well composed of all ancient and modern knowledge." An examination of his works will show that his reading was extensive. References and allusions to the... | |
 | Louise Imogen Guiney - 1897 - Liczba stron: 358
...a flower." Sweetly wrote the good Sprat of his famous friend Cowley: "His learning sat exceedingly close and handsomely upon him : it was not embossed on his mind, but enamelled." The best to be said of any knowing one among us, is that he does not readily show what... | |
 | 1903 - Liczba stron: 762
...the silent reproof of a better practice. His learning was large and various, but it eat exceedingly close and handsomely upon him. It was not embossed on his mind but enamelled." The narrative formed the preface to all the editions of Cowley which appeared in the eighteenth,... | |
 | Constantine Edward McGuire - 1923 - Liczba stron: 450
...laughing Cavalier. They recall a pleasant description of the gentle Cowley: "His learning sat exceedingly close and handsomely upon him; it was not embossed on his mind, but enamelled." Agnes Repplier is of a Philadelphia family, remotely French in origin, she was educated... | |
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... better practice. His wit was so tempered, that no man had ever reason to wish it had been less ; he prevented other men's severity upon it, by his own : he never willingly recited any of his writings. None but his intimate friends ever discovered... 