The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Tom 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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Strona ii
... mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particu- lar direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ...
... mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particu- lar direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ...
Strona iv
... minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other poetical compositions , " The ...
... minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other poetical compositions , " The ...
Strona v
... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedi- cation to sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaint- ance all his contemporaries seem to have been ...
... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedi- cation to sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaint- ance all his contemporaries seem to have been ...
Strona ix
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the pos- sibility of committing , differs only by the infre- quency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of ...
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the pos- sibility of committing , differs only by the infre- quency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of ...
Strona x
... mind is more on things than words , contribute no othe wise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the af- fectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little ...
... mind is more on things than words , contribute no othe wise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the af- fectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little ...
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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.