The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Tom 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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Strona xx
... whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great ...
... whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great ...
Strona xxvi
... of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole en- deavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the xxvi COWLEY .
... of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole en- deavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the xxvi COWLEY .
Strona xxx
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the se- cond rational admiration . Sublimity is produc- ed by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in ...
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the se- cond rational admiration . Sublimity is produc- ed by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in ...
Strona xliii
... Nature's well - set clock in pieces took ; On all the springs and smallest wheels did look Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet COWLEY . xliii.
... Nature's well - set clock in pieces took ; On all the springs and smallest wheels did look Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet COWLEY . xliii.
Strona lxxiv
... whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , con- fessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read , and ...
... whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , con- fessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read , and ...
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Æneid Anacreon beauteous beauty birds play blessings blest breast bright CATULLUS colours Cowley Cowley's curse Davideis death delight didst divine Donne dost thou doth drink e'er earth ev'n fair fame fancy fantastick fate fire flame ganon gentle glory gold Gondibert grow hand happy hast heart heaven honour images Ismenus join'd KATHARINE PHILIPS king labour land land arts learned Lesbos less light live Lord lord Falkland lover metaphysical poets methinks mighty mind mistress Muse Nature ne'er never night noble numbers o'er once Orinda Pindar poem poesy poet poetical poetry praise Prince rage reign rich sacred sad cypress Sappho shew shine sing soul spirit Sprat stars sure thee thine things thou dost thought truth verse virtue Whilst WILLIAM DAVENANT wind wine wise wonders write
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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.