The Works of the English Poets: CowleySamuel Johnson H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Seem narrow creeks to thee , and only fit For the poor wretched fisher - boats of wit : Thy nobler vessel the vast ocean tries , And nothing fees but seas and skies , Till unknown regions it descries , Thou great Columbus of Till TO MR ...
... Seem narrow creeks to thee , and only fit For the poor wretched fisher - boats of wit : Thy nobler vessel the vast ocean tries , And nothing fees but seas and skies , Till unknown regions it descries , Thou great Columbus of Till TO MR ...
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... seem , whate'er philosophy " And sense or reason tell , " faid I , " These things have life , election , liberty ; " ' Tis their own wisdom moulds their state , " Their faults and virtues make their fate . They do , they do , " said I ...
... seem , whate'er philosophy " And sense or reason tell , " faid I , " These things have life , election , liberty ; " ' Tis their own wisdom moulds their state , " Their faults and virtues make their fate . They do , they do , " said I ...
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... That things which swiftest move seem to stand stilk : We look not upon Virtue in her height , On her fupreme idea , brave and bright , In the original light ; But But as her beams reflected pass Through our own Nature 34 COWLEY'S POEMS .
... That things which swiftest move seem to stand stilk : We look not upon Virtue in her height , On her fupreme idea , brave and bright , In the original light ; But But as her beams reflected pass Through our own Nature 34 COWLEY'S POEMS .
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... Seem'd like its fea , embracing round the ifle , With tempefts , and red waves , noise , and affright Albion no more , nor to be nam'd from white ! What province or what city did it spare ? It , like a plague , infected all the air ...
... Seem'd like its fea , embracing round the ifle , With tempefts , and red waves , noise , and affright Albion no more , nor to be nam'd from white ! What province or what city did it spare ? It , like a plague , infected all the air ...
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... wide and cruel as the Spaniard there ) Is so quite rooted - out by thee , That thy patients seem to be Restor'd not to health only , but virginity . The The Plague itself , that proud imperial ill , Which 38 COWLEY'S POEMS .
... wide and cruel as the Spaniard there ) Is so quite rooted - out by thee , That thy patients seem to be Restor'd not to health only , but virginity . The The Plague itself , that proud imperial ill , Which 38 COWLEY'S POEMS .
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Страница 366 - Even when I was a very young boy at school, instead of running about on holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, or with some one companion, if I could find any of the same temper.
Страница 279 - ... a man had better be in a fair than in a wood alone. They may, like petty thieves, cheat us perhaps, and pick our...
Страница 365 - ... of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me from being scandalous or remarkable on the defective side.
Страница 368 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers; so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Страница 294 - Behold the original and primitive nobility of all those great persons who are too proud now not only to till the ground, but almost to tread upon it. We may talk what we please of...
Страница 367 - This only grant me ; that my means may lie . Too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Страница 270 - ... with so much knowledge and love of piety and philosophy (that is, of the study of God's laws, and of his creatures) as may afford him matter enough never to be idle, though without business ; and never to be melancholy, though without sin or vanity.
Страница 279 - ... to learning and books for fresh supplies, so that the solitary life will grow indigent, and be ready to starve, without them; but if once we be thoroughly engaged in the love of letters, instead of being wearied with the length of any day, we shall only complain of the shortness of our whole life. "O vita, stulto longa, sapienti brevis...
Страница 290 - Rome to be made consuls and dictators ; the reason of which I conceive to be from an evil custom, now grown as strong among us as if it were a law, which is, that no men put their children to be bred up apprentices in agriculture, as in other trades, but such who are so poor, that, when they come to be men, they have not...
Страница 231 - And one man then, by maliciously opening all the sluices that he can come at, can never be the sole author of all this (though he may be as guilty as if really he were, by intending and imagining to be so); but it is God that breaks up the flood-gates of so general a deluge, and all the art then, and industry of mankind, is not sufficient to raise up dikes and ramparts against it. In such a time it was, as this, that not all the wisdom and power of the Roman...