The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... appear to the wise so plain and obvious , that they will scarce think it deserves the labour of argumentation . Let us first consider the ambitious ; and those , both in their progress to greatness , and after the attaining of it ...
... appear to the wise so plain and obvious , that they will scarce think it deserves the labour of argumentation . Let us first consider the ambitious ; and those , both in their progress to greatness , and after the attaining of it ...
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... appear ; Who , in his life flattering his senseless pride , By being known to all the world beside , Does not himself , when he is dying , know , Nor what he is , nor whither he's to go . IV . OF AGRICULTURE . THE first wish of Virgil ...
... appear ; Who , in his life flattering his senseless pride , By being known to all the world beside , Does not himself , when he is dying , know , Nor what he is , nor whither he's to go . IV . OF AGRICULTURE . THE first wish of Virgil ...
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... appear . ' Tis true , the first desire , which does control All the inferior wheels that move my soul , Is , that the Muse me her high - priest would make , Into her holiest scenes of mystery take , And open there to my mind's purged ...
... appear . ' Tis true , the first desire , which does control All the inferior wheels that move my soul , Is , that the Muse me her high - priest would make , Into her holiest scenes of mystery take , And open there to my mind's purged ...
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... appears from the introduction , " -as witty poets tell- " and therefore , unluckily , on his own taste , when he wrote ( as he often did , and as the best poets are apt to do ) for pre- sent fame and reputation . - Hurd . At last , the ...
... appears from the introduction , " -as witty poets tell- " and therefore , unluckily , on his own taste , when he wrote ( as he often did , and as the best poets are apt to do ) for pre- sent fame and reputation . - Hurd . At last , the ...
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... appear , As far as earth could such a likeness bear : That man no happiness might want , Which earth to her first master could afford , He did a garden for him plant By the quick hand of his omnipotent word . As the chief help and joy ...
... appear , As far as earth could such a likeness bear : That man no happiness might want , Which earth to her first master could afford , He did a garden for him plant By the quick hand of his omnipotent word . As the chief help and joy ...
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Page 121 - t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Page 101 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 28 - Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! Hail, ye plebeian under-wood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food Pay, with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor Muses...
Page 116 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Page 121 - 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.
Page 105 - I thought, when I went first to dwell in the country, that without doubt I should have met there with the simplicity of the old poetical golden age ; I thought to have found no inhabitants there, but such as the shepherds of Sir Philip Sidney in Arcadia, or of Monsieur d'Urfe...
Page 126 - Nothing shall separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her.
Page 66 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Page 29 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.