The Works of Abraham Cowley, Tom 3G. Kearsley, 1806 |
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Strona 49
... industry ; When all the proud and dreadful sea , And all his tributary streams , A constant tribute paid to thee ; When all the liquid world was one extended Thames : When plenty in each village did appear , And bounty was its steward ...
... industry ; When all the proud and dreadful sea , And all his tributary streams , A constant tribute paid to thee ; When all the liquid world was one extended Thames : When plenty in each village did appear , And bounty was its steward ...
Strona 82
... industry ( as you term it ) I am so far from doubting , that I intended to object that diligence , as the worst of his crimes . It makes me almost mad , when I hear a man commended for his diligence in wickedness . If I were his son , I ...
... industry ( as you term it ) I am so far from doubting , that I intended to object that diligence , as the worst of his crimes . It makes me almost mad , when I hear a man commended for his diligence in wickedness . If I were his son , I ...
Strona 108
... industry : neither do I believe that there was ever any monster of nature composed out of so many different and disagreeing parts . Who more accept- * Orat . pro M. Cælio . able , sometimes , to the most honourable persons ; 108 ESSAYS .
... industry : neither do I believe that there was ever any monster of nature composed out of so many different and disagreeing parts . Who more accept- * Orat . pro M. Cælio . able , sometimes , to the most honourable persons ; 108 ESSAYS .
Strona 109
... industry ; and , if need were , not by sticking at any wickedness whatsoever that might be useful to them , to bend and turn about his own nature , and laveer with every wind ; to live severely with the melancholy , merrily with the ...
... industry ; and , if need were , not by sticking at any wickedness whatsoever that might be useful to them , to bend and turn about his own nature , and laveer with every wind ; to live severely with the melancholy , merrily with the ...
Strona 111
... industry . I grant , sometimes they may ; but then , that industry must be such , as cannot consist with liberty , though it may with honesty . Thou art careful , frugal , painful ; we commend a servant so , but not a friend . Well then ...
... industry . I grant , sometimes they may ; but then , that industry must be such , as cannot consist with liberty , though it may with honesty . Thou art careful , frugal , painful ; we commend a servant so , but not a friend . Well then ...
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Strona 227 - 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...
Strona 206 - 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 146 - ... of all others, a perpetual companion of the husbandman: and that is, the satisfaction of looking round about him, and seeing nothing but the effects and improvements of his own art and diligence; to be always gathering of some fruits of it, and at the same time to behold others ripening, and others budding; to see all his fields and gardens covered with the beauteous creatures of his own industry; and to see, like God, that all his works are good.
Strona 54 - What can be more extraordinary, than that a person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage to attempt, and the happiness to succeed in, so improbable a design, as the destruction of one of the most ancient and most...
Strona 180 - 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 229 - I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found every where 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.
Strona 230 - Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c.
Strona 80 - 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 145 - We are here among the vast and noble scenes of nature; we are there among the pitiful shifts of policy ; we walk here in the light and open ways of the divine bounty ; we grope there in the dark and confused labyrinths of human malice : our senses are here feasted with the clear and genuine taste of their objects; which are all sophisticated there, and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries.
Strona 232 - ... separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her. - Nee vos, dulcissima mundi Nomina, vos Musae, libertas, otia, libri, Hortique sylvesque anima remanente relinquam.