The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volumen1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... noble and more adequate concep- tion , 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 ; if it be that , which he that never found ...
... noble and more adequate concep- tion , 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 ; if it be that , which he that never found ...
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... noble subjects ; and it will not be easy to reconcile the poet with the critick , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verse , which , according to Sprat , is chiefly to be preferred for its near affinity to ...
... noble subjects ; and it will not be easy to reconcile the poet with the critick , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verse , which , according to Sprat , is chiefly to be preferred for its near affinity to ...
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... noble epigram of Grotius upon the death of Scaliger , that I cannot but think them copied from it , though they are copied by no servile hand . One passage in his Mistress is so apparently borrowed from Donne , that he probably would ...
... noble epigram of Grotius upon the death of Scaliger , that I cannot but think them copied from it , though they are copied by no servile hand . One passage in his Mistress is so apparently borrowed from Donne , that he probably would ...
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... noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce , The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable grandeur ; but ears . * his excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he COWLEY ...
... noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce , The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable grandeur ; but ears . * his excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he COWLEY ...
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... censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by xcii COWLEY .
... censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by xcii COWLEY .
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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.