The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... fear ( says he to Atticus ) death , and banish- ment , and poverty , a great deal too much . Cicero , I am afraid , thinks these to be the worst of evils ; and if he have but some persons , from whom he can obtain what he has a mind to ...
... fear ( says he to Atticus ) death , and banish- ment , and poverty , a great deal too much . Cicero , I am afraid , thinks these to be the worst of evils ; and if he have but some persons , from whom he can obtain what he has a mind to ...
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... fear , envy , grief , and all the et cætera of their passions , which are the secret , but constant tyrants and torturers of their life , I omit here , be- cause , though they be symptoms most frequent and violent in this disease , yet ...
... fear , envy , grief , and all the et cætera of their passions , which are the secret , but constant tyrants and torturers of their life , I omit here , be- cause , though they be symptoms most frequent and violent in this disease , yet ...
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... fear'd some trespass to commit , When the wide air's a road for it . So the imperial eagle does not stay Till the whole carcase he devour , That's fallen into its power : As if his generous hunger understood That he can never want ...
... fear'd some trespass to commit , When the wide air's a road for it . So the imperial eagle does not stay Till the whole carcase he devour , That's fallen into its power : As if his generous hunger understood That he can never want ...
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... no fall to earth may fear , And , O ye gods , at a good distance seat From the long ruins of the great . * From the long ruins of the great . ] A wonderfully fine Here , wrapp'd in the arms of Quiet let me 40 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
... no fall to earth may fear , And , O ye gods , at a good distance seat From the long ruins of the great . * From the long ruins of the great . ] A wonderfully fine Here , wrapp'd in the arms of Quiet let me 40 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
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... fear , The face of death will terrible 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 ...
... fear , The face of death will terrible 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 ...
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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.