The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Tom 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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Strona xxxiv
... join'd , A powerful brand prescrib'd the date Of thine , like Meleager's fate . Th ' antiperistasis of age More enflam'd thy amorous rage . In the following verses we have an allusion to a rabbinical opinion concerning manna : Variety I ...
... join'd , A powerful brand prescrib'd the date Of thine , like Meleager's fate . Th ' antiperistasis of age More enflam'd thy amorous rage . In the following verses we have an allusion to a rabbinical opinion concerning manna : Variety I ...
Strona 30
... true piece of Wit all things must be , Yet all things there agree ; As in the ark , join'd without force or strife , All creatures dwelt ; all creatures that had life : Or , as the primitive forms of all ( If 30 COWLEY'S POEMS .
... true piece of Wit all things must be , Yet all things there agree ; As in the ark , join'd without force or strife , All creatures dwelt ; all creatures that had life : Or , as the primitive forms of all ( If 30 COWLEY'S POEMS .
Strona 51
... join'd our birth ; Nor did we envy the most sounding name By friendship given of old to fame . None but his brethren he and sisters knew , Whom the kind youth preferr'd to me ; And ev'n in that we did agree , For much above myself I lov ...
... join'd our birth ; Nor did we envy the most sounding name By friendship given of old to fame . None but his brethren he and sisters knew , Whom the kind youth preferr'd to me ; And ev'n in that we did agree , For much above myself I lov ...
Strona 54
... join'd in him , as we Can scarce pick here and there in history ; More than old writers ' practice e'er could reach ; As much as they could ever teach . These did Religion , Queen of virtues ! sway ; And all their sacred motions steer ...
... join'd in him , as we Can scarce pick here and there in history ; More than old writers ' practice e'er could reach ; As much as they could ever teach . These did Religion , Queen of virtues ! sway ; And all their sacred motions steer ...
Strona 55
... 'd . There , whilst immortal hymns thou dost rehearse , Thou dost with holy pity see Our dull and earthly poesy , Where grief and misery can be join'd with verse . [ 56 ] ODE . IN IMITATION OF HORACE'S ODE ON MR . HERVEY'S DEATH . 55.
... 'd . There , whilst immortal hymns thou dost rehearse , Thou dost with holy pity see Our dull and earthly poesy , Where grief and misery can be join'd with verse . [ 56 ] ODE . IN IMITATION OF HORACE'S ODE ON MR . HERVEY'S DEATH . 55.
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Strona 167 - 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 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 82 - Phoebus loves, and does inspire Phoebus is himself thy sire. To thee, of all things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. Happy insect! happy thou, Dost neither age nor winter know; But when thou'st drunk, and danced, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, (Voluptuous and wise withal, Epicurean animal!) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest.
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 lxxxviii - Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I, Say, where his centric happiness doth lie: I have lov'd, and got, and told; But should I love, get, tell, till I were old; I should not find that hidden mystery; Oh, 'tis imposture all! And as no chymic yet th...
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 27 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own...
Strona xxx - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
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...