The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Tom 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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Strona viii
... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is na- tural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal re- gard by an elaborate display of his own qualifica- tions . The desire of pleasing has in ...
... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is na- tural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal re- gard by an elaborate display of his own qualifica- tions . The desire of pleasing has in ...
Strona xxviii
... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverse- ness of industry they were ever found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophi- cally ...
... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverse- ness of industry they were ever found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophi- cally ...
Strona xxix
... reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving ...
... reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving ...
Strona xxxiii
... readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Diseurity Each leaf ...
... readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Diseurity Each leaf ...
Strona xxxix
... reader may perhaps cry out - Confusion worse confounded . Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who but Donne ...
... reader may perhaps cry out - Confusion worse confounded . Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who but Donne ...
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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...