The Works of Abraham Cowley, Volumen1G. Kearsley, 1806 |
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Página xxxiv
... colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy life entwin'd , Close as heat with fire is join'd , A powerful brand prescrib'd the date Of thine ...
... colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy life entwin'd , Close as heat with fire is join'd , A powerful brand prescrib'd the date Of thine ...
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... colours of flowers , is not perused with more sluggish frigi- dity . The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn ...
... colours of flowers , is not perused with more sluggish frigi- dity . The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn ...
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... colours of the sky , we might have been told , and been dis- missed to improve the idea in our different pro portions of conception ; but Cowley could not let us go till he had related where Gabriel got first his skin , and then his ...
... colours of the sky , we might have been told , and been dis- missed to improve the idea in our different pro portions of conception ; but Cowley could not let us go till he had related where Gabriel got first his skin , and then his ...
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... colour and the shape , Like Zeuxis ' birds , fly to the painted grape . Some things do through our judgment pass As through a multiplying - glass ; And sometimes , if the object be too far , We take a falling meteor for a star . Hence ...
... colour and the shape , Like Zeuxis ' birds , fly to the painted grape . Some things do through our judgment pass As through a multiplying - glass ; And sometimes , if the object be too far , We take a falling meteor for a star . Hence ...
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... colour there , The figures sweet and well - proportion'd were . Most other men , set next to him in view , Appear'd more shadows than the men he drew . Thus still he liv'd , till Heav'n did for him [ 39 ] On the Death of Sir Anthony ...
... colour there , The figures sweet and well - proportion'd were . Most other men , set next to him in view , Appear'd more shadows than the men he drew . Thus still he liv'd , till Heav'n did for him [ 39 ] On the Death of Sir Anthony ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ABRAHAM COWLEY Anacreon appear Art thou beauteous beauty blessings blest breast bright 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 grenado grow hand happy hast heart heaven heroick honour images imitated kind king labour learned Lesbos less light live lord Falkland lover metaphysical poets methinks mighty mihi mind mistress Muse Nature ne'er never night noble numbers o'er once Orinda Ovid Petrarch Pharsalia Pindar poem poesy poetical poetry poets praise Prince rage reader rich sacred SAMUEL JOHNSON Sappho scarce shew sometimes soul spirit Sprat stars Statius sure tears Theban thee thine things thou dost thought truth Tu quoque verse Virgil virtue Whilst wine wise write
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Página 146 - 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.
Página lxiv - Begin the song, and strike the living lyre : Lo how the years to come, a numerous and well-fitted quire. All hand in hand do decently advance, And to my song with smooth and equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts, how long soe'er it be, My music's voice shall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound.
Página lxxviii - 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...
Página 58 - Gentle Henrietta then, And a third Mary next began, Then Joan and Jane and Audria, And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Catherine, And then a long
Página 28 - In a true piece of Wit all things must be, Yet all things there agree. As in the Ark, joyn'd without force or strife, All Creatures dwelt; all Creatures that had Life.
Página 48 - IT was a dismal and a fearful night: Scarce could the Morn drive on th' unwilling light, When sleep, death's image, left my troubled breast By something liker death possessed.
Página 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 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.
Página 71 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup.
Página lxxxviii - ... buried in impurities as not to pay the cost of their extraction. The diction, being the vehicle of the thoughts, first presents itself to the intellectual eye; and if the first appearance offends, a further knowledge is not often sought. Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise. What is perceived by slow degrees may gratify us with the consciousness of improvement, but...
Página 11 - has been for some years past, though the execution has been accidentally diverted, and does still vehemently continue, to retire myself to some of our American plantations, not to seek for gold, or enrich myself with the...