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... stays at home , with a pair of com- passes , it may be doubted whether absurdity or in- genuity has better claim : Our two souls , therefore , which are one , Though I must go , endure not yet A breach , but an expansion , Like gold to ...
... stays at home , with a pair of com- passes , it may be doubted whether absurdity or in- genuity has better claim : Our two souls , therefore , which are one , Though I must go , endure not yet A breach , but an expansion , Like gold to ...
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... stay Till the whole stream that stopped him shall be gone , Which runs , and , as it runs , for ever shall run on . Cowley was , I believe , the first poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroic of ten syllables ...
... stay Till the whole stream that stopped him shall be gone , Which runs , and , as it runs , for ever shall run on . Cowley was , I believe , the first poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroic of ten syllables ...
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... stay till it were done for me by somebody else , either surreptitiously before , or avowedly after , my death : and this will be the more excusable , when the reader shall know in what respects he may look upon me as a dead , or at ...
... stay till it were done for me by somebody else , either surreptitiously before , or avowedly after , my death : and this will be the more excusable , when the reader shall know in what respects he may look upon me as a dead , or at ...
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... stay , my Muse ; for if I should recite Her mournful language , I should make you weep Like her , a flood , and so not see to write Such lines as I , and the ' age requires , to keep Me from stern Death , or with victorious rhyme ...
... stay , my Muse ; for if I should recite Her mournful language , I should make you weep Like her , a flood , and so not see to write Such lines as I , and the ' age requires , to keep Me from stern Death , or with victorious rhyme ...
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... Stay , I will not toil thee with my history ; For to remember sorrows past away , Is to renew an old calamity . He who acquainteth others with his moan , Adds to his friend's grief , but not cures his own . " " But , " said Philocrates ...
... Stay , I will not toil thee with my history ; For to remember sorrows past away , Is to renew an old calamity . He who acquainteth others with his moan , Adds to his friend's grief , but not cures his own . " " But , " said Philocrates ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY Æneid Anacreon antiperistasis appear beauteous beauty BISHOP OF LINCOLN bless bless'd blood bold breast Brentford bright Chertsey Constantia Cowley Cowley's Davideis death delight divine Donne doth e'er earth eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame gentle gold GONDIBERT grief happy hast hath hear heart Heaven honour join'd king labour learned less light live lovers metaphysical poets methinks mighty mind mistress Muse Nature ne'er never night noble nought numbers o'er Orinda Ovid peace Pharsalia Philetus Philocrates Pindar poems poesy poetical poetry poets praise Pyramus PYRAMUS AND THISBE rage sacred scarce shine sighs sight sing soul spirit Sprat stars sure tears Tereus thee thine things Thisbe thou dost thought twas Twill verse vex'd Virgil virtue weep Whilst wise write
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Page 24 - ... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Page 38 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 24 - ... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion. Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before.
Page 282 - Through the soft ways of heaven, and air, and sea, Which open all their pores to thee, Like a clear river thou dost glide. And with thy living stream through the close channels slide. But...
Page 189 - Moses thou (though spells and charms withstand) Hast brought them nobly home back to their Holy Land. Ah wretched we, poets of earth ! but thou Wert living the same poet which thou'rt now.
Page 26 - If their greatness seldom elevates, their acuteness often surprises; if the imagination is not always gratified, at least the powers of reflection and comparison are employed; and in the mass of materials which ingenious absurdity has thrown together, genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes found, buried perhaps in grossness of expression, but useful to those who know their value; and such as, when they are expanded to perspicuity and polished to elegance, may give lustre to works which...
Page 182 - 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...
Page 24 - As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds...
Page 35 - That prayer and labour should cooperate, are thus taught by Donne: In none but us are such mix'd engines found, As hands of double office: for the ground We till with them; and them to heaven we raise: Who prayerless labours, or, without this, prays, Doth but one half, that's none.
Page 191 - Rather than thus our wills too strong for it. His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right...