The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Tom 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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Strona ii
... poet . Such are the accidents , which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes for- gotten , produce that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called Genius ...
... poet . Such are the accidents , which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes for- gotten , produce that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called Genius ...
Strona iv
... poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the ...
... poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the ...
Strona vii
... poets are " scarce thought freemen of their company " without paying some duties , or obliging them- " selves to be true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who ...
... poets are " scarce thought freemen of their company " without paying some duties , or obliging them- " selves to be true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who ...
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... poets Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite princi- ples ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin ... poet and historian , who flou- rished in the reigns of James and Charles I. › At the Restoration , after all the ...
... poets Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite princi- ples ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin ... poet and historian , who flou- rished in the reigns of James and Charles I. › At the Restoration , after all the ...
Strona xxi
... poets has been teased : Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making apologies for his bad play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke ...
... poets has been teased : Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making apologies for his bad play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke ...
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Strona ii - ... relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and, perhaps, sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is com.monly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Strona 167 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Strona lii - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Strona xxviii - ... a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together...
Strona 61 - 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, mysteries...
Strona 28 - Women love't, either in Love or Dress. A thousand different shapes it bears, Comely in thousand shapes appears. Yonder we saw it plain ; and here 'tis now, Like Spirits in a Place, we know not How.
Strona 166 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others...
Strona lxxxix - 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 lxxx - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red; An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Strona 81 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy ; Nor does thy luxury destroy.