The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volumen1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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In Prose and Verse Abraham Cowley Richard Hurd. VERSES WRITTEN ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS . Christ's Passion , taken out of a ... Cowley's Book presenting itself to the Uni- versity Library of Oxford Ode . Sitting and drinking in the Chair made ...
In Prose and Verse Abraham Cowley Richard Hurd. VERSES WRITTEN ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS . Christ's Passion , taken out of a ... Cowley's Book presenting itself to the Uni- versity Library of Oxford Ode . Sitting and drinking in the Chair made ...
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... Cowley's minority . In 1636 he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his studies with great intenseness ; for he is said to have written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which ...
... Cowley's minority . In 1636 he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his studies with great intenseness ; for he is said to have written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which ...
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... Cowley's first piece , which ought to be inscribed To my muse , for want of which the second couplet is without reference . When the title is added , there will still remain a defect ; for every piece ought to contain in itself whatever ...
... Cowley's first piece , which ought to be inscribed To my muse , for want of which the second couplet is without reference . When the title is added , there will still remain a defect ; for every piece ought to contain in itself whatever ...
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... Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy , the series of thoughts is easy and natural , and the conclusion , though a little weakened by the ...
... Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy , the series of thoughts is easy and natural , and the conclusion , though a little weakened by the ...
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... Cowley's critical abilities have not been sufficiently observed : the few decisions and re- marks which his prefaces and his notes on the Da- videis supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and shew such skill as ...
... Cowley's critical abilities have not been sufficiently observed : the few decisions and re- marks which his prefaces and his notes on the Da- videis supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and shew such skill as ...
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Página ii - ... relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and, perhaps, sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is com.monly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 167 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página lii - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Página xxviii - ... a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together...
Página 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...
Página 28 - Women love't, either in Love or Dress. A thousand different shapes it bears, Comely in thousand shapes appears. Yonder we saw it plain ; and here 'tis now, Like Spirits in a Place, we know not How.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página lxxx - 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 81 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy ; Nor does thy luxury destroy.