Prose Works of Abraham Cowley ; Including His Essays in Prose and VerseW. Pickering, 1826 - 238 |
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Strona xviii
... truth , on the other side , that he had no manner of affectation in them ; he took them as he found them made to his hands ; he neither went before , nor came after , the use of the age . He forsook the conversation , but never the ...
... truth , on the other side , that he had no manner of affectation in them ; he took them as he found them made to his hands ; he neither went before , nor came after , the use of the age . He forsook the conversation , but never the ...
Strona xxiv
... truths in all , there is an admirable mixture of human virtues and passions , with religious raptures . The truth is , Sir , methinks , in other matters , his wit excelled most other men's : but in his moral and divine works , it outdid ...
... truths in all , there is an admirable mixture of human virtues and passions , with religious raptures . The truth is , Sir , methinks , in other matters , his wit excelled most other men's : but in his moral and divine works , it outdid ...
Strona xxv
... truth of it is unquestionable . For the ordinary ill - breeding is only an indecence and offence against some particular custom , or gesture , or behaviour in use ; but this profaneness is a violation of the very support of human ...
... truth of it is unquestionable . For the ordinary ill - breeding is only an indecence and offence against some particular custom , or gesture , or behaviour in use ; but this profaneness is a violation of the very support of human ...
Strona xxix
... truth is , the letters that pass between particular friends , if they are written as they ought to be , can scarce ever be fit to see the light . They should not consist of fulsome compli- ments , or tedious politics , or elaborate ...
... truth is , the letters that pass between particular friends , if they are written as they ought to be , can scarce ever be fit to see the light . They should not consist of fulsome compli- ments , or tedious politics , or elaborate ...
Strona xxxi
... truth of his heart was above the corruption of ill examples : and there- fore the sight of them rather confirmed him in the contrary virtues . There was nothing affected or singular in his habit , or person , or gesture . He understood ...
... truth of his heart was above the corruption of ill examples : and there- fore the sight of them rather confirmed him in the contrary virtues . There was nothing affected or singular in his habit , or person , or gesture . He understood ...
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Strona 228 - This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone. The unknown are better than ill known. Rumour can ope the grave; Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends.
Strona 205 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Strona 233 - ... me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her. - Nee vos, dulcissima mundi Nomina, vos Musae, libertas, otia, libri, Hortique sylvesque anima remanente relinquam.
Strona 178 - Where does the wisdom and the power divine In a more bright and sweet reflection shine ? Where do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book ? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy Ev'n in a bush the radiant Deity.
Strona 133 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.
Strona 211 - Man, whom the same humble place, (Th' hereditary Cottage of his Race) From his first rising infancy has known, And by degrees sees gently bending down, With natural propension to that Earth Which both preserv'd his Life, and gave him birth.
Strona 18 - And I shall be ambitious of no other fruit from this weak and imperfect attempt of mine, but the opening of a way to the courage and industry of some other persons, who may be better able to perform it thoroughly and successfully.
Strona 216 - God destroyed his life, and gave the fruits of it to another. Thus God takes away sometimes the man from his riches, and no less frequently riches from the man : what hope can there be of such a marriage, where both parties are so fickle and uncertain ? by what bonds can such a couple be kept long together...
Strona 236 - There fire's an element, as cheap and free, Almost a,s any of the other three. Stay you then here, and live among the great, Attend their sports, and at their tables eat. When all the bounties here of men you score, The place's bounty there, shall give me more.
Strona 193 - Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not. Go, level hills, and fill up seas, Spare nought that may your wanton fancy please; But, trust me, when you have done all this, Much will be missing still, and much will be amiss.