The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Tom 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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Strona xli
... bright . COWLEY . An universal consternation : His bloody eyes he hurls round , his sharp paws Tear up the ground ; then runs he wild about , Lashing his angry tail and roaring out . Beasts creep into their dens , and tremble there ...
... bright . COWLEY . An universal consternation : His bloody eyes he hurls round , his sharp paws Tear up the ground ; then runs he wild about , Lashing his angry tail and roaring out . Beasts creep into their dens , and tremble there ...
Strona xlvi
... bright eyes , At every glance a constellation flies And sowes the court with stars , and doth prevent In light and power , the all - ey'd firmament : First her eye kindles other ladies ' eyes , Then from their beams their jewels lustres ...
... bright eyes , At every glance a constellation flies And sowes the court with stars , and doth prevent In light and power , the all - ey'd firmament : First her eye kindles other ladies ' eyes , Then from their beams their jewels lustres ...
Strona lxxix
... bright and glorious show , In life's fresh morn his fame does early crow . Describing an undisciplined army , after hav ing said with elegance His forces seem'd no army , but a crowd Heartless , unarm'd , disorderly , and loud , he ...
... bright and glorious show , In life's fresh morn his fame does early crow . Describing an undisciplined army , after hav ing said with elegance His forces seem'd no army , but a crowd Heartless , unarm'd , disorderly , and loud , he ...
Strona lxxx
... bright , That e'er the midday sun pierc'd through with light ; Upon his cheeks a lively blush he spread , Wash'd from the morning beauties deepest red ; An harmless flattering meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with ...
... bright , That e'er the midday sun pierc'd through with light ; Upon his cheeks a lively blush he spread , Wash'd from the morning beauties deepest red ; An harmless flattering meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with ...
Strona lxxxvi
... bright and gay , but which time has been continually steal- ing from his brows . He was in his own time considered as of un- rivalled excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and ...
... bright and gay , but which time has been continually steal- ing from his brows . He was in his own time considered as of un- rivalled excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and ...
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Anacreon antiperistasis appear battle of Newbury beauteous beauty BISHOP OF WORCESTER blest breast bright CATULLUS conceits Cowley Cowley's Davideis death delight didst divine Donne doth e'er earth ev'n fair fame fancy fantastick fate fire flame gentle gold Gondibert grow happy hast heart heaven honour images imitated join'd KATHARINE PHILIPS king labour learned less light lines live Lord lord Falkland lover metaphysical poets methinks mighty mihi mind mistress Muse nature ne'er never night noble NORTHERN EXPEDITION numbers o'er once Orinda Ovid painted Pharsalia Pindar poem poesy poet poetical poetry Pope praise rage reader sacred Sappho scarce shew shine sometimes soul spirit Sprat stars sure thee thine things thou dost thought truth verse Virgil virtue Whilst wine wise wonder write
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Strona xxviii - ... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Strona 161 - For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Strona xxxi - What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.
Strona xxviii - If by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Strona lxxxvii - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Strona 57 - The ribands, jewels, and the rings, The lace, the paint and warlike things That make up all their magazines; If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts, The letters, embassies and spies, The frowns, and smiles and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries Numberless, nameless...
Strona xxxix - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all, So doth each tear, Which thee doth wear, A globe, yea world by that impression grow, Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so.
Strona xxvii - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry' T£Xvrl (ii(iT)TixT) an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
Strona 142 - The sun's gilt tent for ever move, And still as thou in pomp dost go The shining pageants of the world attend thy show. Nor amidst all these triumphs dost thou scorn The humble glow-worms to adorn, And with those living spangles gild (O greatness without pride !) the bushes of the field. Night, and her ugly subjects thou dost fright, And sleep, the lazy owl of night ; Ashamed and fearful to appear They screen their horrid shapes with the black hemisphere.
Strona xxxii - This kind of writing, which was, I believe, borrowed from Marino and his followers, had been recommended by the example of Donne, a man of a very extensive and various knowledge; and by Jonson, whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments.