The Works of the English Poets: CowleySamuel Johnson H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fome , like Scythians , liv'd on blood , And fome on green , and some on flowery food ; And Accaron , the airy prince , led on this various hoft . Houses secure not men , the populous ill Did all the houses fill : The country all around ...
... fome , like Scythians , liv'd on blood , And fome on green , and some on flowery food ; And Accaron , the airy prince , led on this various hoft . Houses secure not men , the populous ill Did all the houses fill : The country all around ...
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... fome running on the ground , Some swimming o'er the water's face , Fill'd with bright horror every place : One would have thought , their dreadful day to have feen , The very hail , and rain itself , had kindled been . The infant corn ...
... fome running on the ground , Some swimming o'er the water's face , Fill'd with bright horror every place : One would have thought , their dreadful day to have feen , The very hail , and rain itself , had kindled been . The infant corn ...
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... fome higher ground to look behind ; So , whilst through wondrous ways The facred army went , The waves afar stood up to gaze , And their own rocks did reprefent , Solid as waters are above the firmament . Old Jordan's waters to their ...
... fome higher ground to look behind ; So , whilst through wondrous ways The facred army went , The waves afar stood up to gaze , And their own rocks did reprefent , Solid as waters are above the firmament . Old Jordan's waters to their ...
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... seem " To ' ave fnatch'd away but fome few days from him , " And cut that thread which would have dropp'd in " two ; " Will our great anger learn to ftoop so low ? " I know " I know it cannot , will not ; him DAVIDEIS . Boок І. 94.
... seem " To ' ave fnatch'd away but fome few days from him , " And cut that thread which would have dropp'd in " two ; " Will our great anger learn to ftoop so low ? " I know " I know it cannot , will not ; him DAVIDEIS . Boок І. 94.
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... fome pleasure then to take his breath , " When he shall strive and wrestle with his death ; 620 " Go , let him live - And yet - shall I then stay " So long ? good and great actions hate delay . " Some foolish piety perhaps , or he ...
... fome pleasure then to take his breath , " When he shall strive and wrestle with his death ; 620 " Go , let him live - And yet - shall I then stay " So long ? good and great actions hate delay . " Some foolish piety perhaps , or he ...
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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...