The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volumen1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the ...
... given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the ...
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... given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ...
... given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ...
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... given some credit to the answer of his oracle . * Virgilian Lots ( Sortes Virgilianæ ) is a method of divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumstance of the peruser the first passage in either of the two pages ...
... given some credit to the answer of his oracle . * Virgilian Lots ( Sortes Virgilianæ ) is a method of divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumstance of the peruser the first passage in either of the two pages ...
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... given by Dr. Scarborough . This year he published his poems , with a pre- face , in which he seems to have inserted some- That boiling blood would carry thee too far , Young as thou wert , to dangers raw , to war . O curst essay of arms ...
... given by Dr. Scarborough . This year he published his poems , with a pre- face , in which he seems to have inserted some- That boiling blood would carry thee too far , Young as thou wert , to dangers raw , to war . O curst essay of arms ...
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... given by Dr. Birch , he appears busy among the experimental philosophers with the title of Dr. Cowley . There is no reason for supposing that he ever attempted practice ; but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the ...
... given by Dr. Birch , he appears busy among the experimental philosophers with the title of Dr. Cowley . There is no reason for supposing that he ever attempted practice ; but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the ...
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Página 167 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 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.
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 82 - Phoebus loves, and does inspire Phoebus is himself thy sire. To thee, of all things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. Happy insect! happy thou, Dost neither age nor winter know; But when thou'st drunk, and danced, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, (Voluptuous and wise withal, Epicurean animal!) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest.
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 lxxxviii - Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I, Say, where his centric happiness doth lie: I have lov'd, and got, and told; But should I love, get, tell, till I were old; I should not find that hidden mystery; Oh, 'tis imposture all! And as no chymic yet th...
Página 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.
Página 27 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own...
Página xxx - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
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...