The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Том 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinc- tion . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observa ...
... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinc- tion . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observa ...
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... mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things ...
... mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things ...
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... mean ; for , gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors has been shewn ; For , though I have ...
... mean ; for , gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors has been shewn ; For , though I have ...
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... mean in the materials . Yet surely those verses are not without a just claim to praise , of which it may be said with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . " Julii die 9 , Anno 1669 , a Corbetto Owen , A.B. Æd . " Chr ...
... mean in the materials . Yet surely those verses are not without a just claim to praise , of which it may be said with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . " Julii die 9 , Anno 1669 , a Corbetto Owen , A.B. Æd . " Chr ...
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... means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually steal ...
... means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually steal ...
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Æneid Anacreon beauteous beauty birds play blessings blest breast bright CATULLUS colours Cowley Cowley's curse Davideis death delight didst divine Donne dost thou doth drink e'er earth ev'n fair fame fancy fantastick fate fire flame ganon gentle glory gold Gondibert grow hand happy hast heart heaven honour images Ismenus join'd KATHARINE PHILIPS king labour land land arts learned Lesbos less light live Lord lord Falkland lover metaphysical poets methinks mighty mind mistress Muse Nature ne'er never night noble numbers o'er once Orinda Pindar poem poesy poet poetical poetry praise Prince rage reign rich sacred sad cypress Sappho shew shine sing soul spirit Sprat stars sure thee thine things thou dost thought truth verse virtue Whilst WILLIAM DAVENANT wind wine wise wonders write
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 167 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Сторінка 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
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.