The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Tom 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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Strona lxi
... souls , and with broken hearts . The principal artifice by which The Mistress is filled with conceits is very copiously displayed by Addison . Love is by Cowley , as by other poets , expressed metaphorically by flame and fire ; and that ...
... souls , and with broken hearts . The principal artifice by which The Mistress is filled with conceits is very copiously displayed by Addison . Love is by Cowley , as by other poets , expressed metaphorically by flame and fire ; and that ...
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... soul must be filled with bright and delightful ideas , when it undertakes to communicate delight to others ; which is the main end of poesy . One may see through the style of Ovid de Trist . the humbled and dejected condition of spirit ...
... soul must be filled with bright and delightful ideas , when it undertakes to communicate delight to others ; which is the main end of poesy . One may see through the style of Ovid de Trist . the humbled and dejected condition of spirit ...
Strona 29
... soul , And Reason the inferior powers control . Such were the numbers which could call . The stones into the Theban wall . Such miracles are ceas'd ; and now we see No towns or houses rais'd by poetry . VOL . I. N Yet ' t is not to ...
... soul , And Reason the inferior powers control . Such were the numbers which could call . The stones into the Theban wall . Such miracles are ceas'd ; and now we see No towns or houses rais'd by poetry . VOL . I. N Yet ' t is not to ...
Strona 42
... souls , I wonder , do ? Whilst sleep does our dull bodies tie , Methinks at home they should not stay , Content with dreams , but boldly fly Abroad , and meet each other half the way . Sure they do meet , enjoy each other there , • And ...
... souls , I wonder , do ? Whilst sleep does our dull bodies tie , Methinks at home they should not stay , Content with dreams , but boldly fly Abroad , and meet each other half the way . Sure they do meet , enjoy each other there , • And ...
Strona 46
... soul then most shew'd her unconquer'd power , Was stronger and more armed than the Tower . Sure unkind Fate will tempt your spirit no more ; Sh ' has try'd her weakness and your strength before . T " oppose him still , who once has ...
... soul then most shew'd her unconquer'd power , Was stronger and more armed than the Tower . Sure unkind Fate will tempt your spirit no more ; Sh ' has try'd her weakness and your strength before . T " oppose him still , who once has ...
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Anacreon antiperistasis appear battle of Newbury beauteous beauty BISHOP OF WORCESTER blest breast bright CATULLUS conceits Cowley Cowley's Davideis death delight didst divine Donne doth e'er earth ev'n fair fame fancy fantastick fate fire flame gentle gold Gondibert grow happy hast heart heaven honour images imitated join'd KATHARINE PHILIPS king labour learned less light lines live Lord lord Falkland lover metaphysical poets methinks mighty mihi mind mistress Muse nature ne'er never night noble NORTHERN EXPEDITION numbers o'er once Orinda Ovid painted Pharsalia Pindar poem poesy poet poetical poetry Pope praise rage reader sacred Sappho scarce shew shine sometimes soul spirit Sprat stars sure thee thine things thou dost thought truth verse Virgil virtue Whilst wine wise wonder write
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Strona xxviii - ... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Strona 161 - For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best: 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 xxviii - If by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Strona lxxxvii - 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 57 - The ribands, jewels, and the rings, The lace, the paint and warlike things That make up all their magazines; 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...
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 xxvii - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry' T£Xvrl (ii(iT)TixT) an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
Strona 142 - The sun's gilt tent for ever move, And still as thou in pomp dost go The shining pageants of the world attend thy show. Nor amidst all these triumphs dost thou scorn The humble glow-worms to adorn, And with those living spangles gild (O greatness without pride !) the bushes of the field. Night, and her ugly subjects thou dost fright, And sleep, the lazy owl of night ; Ashamed and fearful to appear They screen their horrid shapes with the black hemisphere.
Strona xxxii - This kind of writing, which was, I believe, borrowed from Marino and his followers, had been recommended by the example of Donne, a man of a very extensive and various knowledge; and by Jonson, whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments.