The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Tom 3John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... Whilst they pac'd slowly on ; but the wise king Did David's tongue to weightier subjects bring . " Much , " said the king , " much I to Joab owe , " For the fair picture drawn by him of you ; “ ' T was drawn in little , but did acts ...
... Whilst they pac'd slowly on ; but the wise king Did David's tongue to weightier subjects bring . " Much , " said the king , " much I to Joab owe , " For the fair picture drawn by him of you ; “ ' T was drawn in little , but did acts ...
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... whilst we ride thus , " says he " ( To gameful Nebo still three leagues there be ) , " The story of your royal friend relate , " And his ungovern'd sire's imperious fate ; " Why your great State that nameless family chose , " And by ...
... whilst we ride thus , " says he " ( To gameful Nebo still three leagues there be ) , " The story of your royal friend relate , " And his ungovern'd sire's imperious fate ; " Why your great State that nameless family chose , " And by ...
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... whilst living , and at death " Their rules and pattern vanish'd with their breath . " The hungry rich all near them did devour ; " Their judge was Appetite , and their law was " Power . " Not Want itself could luxury restrain ; " For ...
... whilst living , and at death " Their rules and pattern vanish'd with their breath . " The hungry rich all near them did devour ; " Their judge was Appetite , and their law was " Power . " Not Want itself could luxury restrain ; " For ...
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... whilst mild Eli and good Samuel were " Busied with age , and th ' altar's sacred care , " To their wild sons they their high charge commit , " Who ' expose to scorn and hate both them and it . " Eli's curs'd house th ' exemplar ...
... whilst mild Eli and good Samuel were " Busied with age , and th ' altar's sacred care , " To their wild sons they their high charge commit , " Who ' expose to scorn and hate both them and it . " Eli's curs'd house th ' exemplar ...
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... Whilst echoes yet preserve the joyful cry , " Some grow enrag'd their own vain hopes to miss , " Some envy Saul ... Whilst the poor heartless natives , every hour , " Darkness and noise seem ready to devour ; " Such Israel's state appear ...
... Whilst echoes yet preserve the joyful cry , " Some grow enrag'd their own vain hopes to miss , " Some envy Saul ... Whilst the poor heartless natives , every hour , " Darkness and noise seem ready to devour ; " Such Israel's state appear ...
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Strona 191 - 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.
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Strona 213 - Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration, but the getting into some moderately convenient retreat in the country...
Strona 134 - But since nature denies to most men the capacity or appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the opportunities or possibility of applying themselves wholly to philosophy, the best mixture of human affairs that we can make are the employments of a country life.
Strona 68 - I have often observed (with all submission and resignation of spirit to the inscrutable mysteries of Eternal Providence), that, when the fulness and maturity of time is come, that produces the great confusions and changes in the world, it usually pleases God to make it appear, by the manner of them, that they are not the effects of human force or policy, but of the divine justice and predestination ; and, though we see a man, like that which we call Jack of the clock-house, striking, as it were,...
Strona 178 - As riches increase," says Solomon, " so do the mouths that devour them."* The master mouth has no more than before. The owner, methinks, is like Ocnus in the fable, who is perpetually winding a rope of hay, and an ass at the end perpetually eating it. Out of these inconveniences arises naturally one more, which is, that no greatness can be satisfied or contented with...
Strona 215 - Nor by me e'er shall you, You of all names the sweetest, and the best, You Muses, books, and liberty, and rest; You gardens, fields, and woods forsaken be, As long as life itself forsakes not me.
Strona 169 - tis that you should carry me away; And trust me not, my friends, if every day I walk not here with more delight, Than ever, after the most happy fight, In triumph to the Capitol I rode, To thank the gods, and to be thought myself almost a god.
Strona 208 - ... him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient, for my own contentment, that they have preserved me from being scandalous, or remarkable on the defective side.
Strona 160 - Nobilis otii, when he spoke of his own). But several accidents of my ill fortune have disappointed me hitherto, and do still, of that felicity; for though I have made the first and hardest step to it, by abandoning all ambitions and hopes in this World, and by retiring from the noise of all business and almost company, yet I stick still in the Inn of a hired House and Garden, among Weeds and Rubbish; and without that plesantest work of Human Industry, the Improvement of something which we call (not...