The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... forces men to say what they have no mind to ? I have wondered at the extravagant and barbarous stratagem of Zopirns , and more at the praises which I find of so deformed an action ; who , though he was one of the seven grandees of ...
... forces men to say what they have no mind to ? I have wondered at the extravagant and barbarous stratagem of Zopirns , and more at the praises which I find of so deformed an action ; who , though he was one of the seven grandees of ...
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... force must he have put on himself , when he complied with the false taste of his age , in his poetical , which he too modestly thought , his best works ! -But the pieces of poetry , inserted in these Essays , whether originals or ...
... force must he have put on himself , when he complied with the false taste of his age , in his poetical , which he too modestly thought , his best works ! -But the pieces of poetry , inserted in these Essays , whether originals or ...
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... forces men to say what they have no mind to ? I have wondered at the extravagant and barba- rous stratagem of Zopirns , and more at the praises which I find of so deformed an action ; who , though he was one of the seven grandees of ...
... forces men to say what they have no mind to ? I have wondered at the extravagant and barba- rous stratagem of Zopirns , and more at the praises which I find of so deformed an action ; who , though he was one of the seven grandees of ...
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... force to restrain the beast that I ride upon , though I bought it , and call it my own ; yet , in the truth of the matter , I am at that time rather his man , than he my horse . The voluptuous men ( whom we are fallen upon ) may be ...
... force to restrain the beast that I ride upon , though I bought it , and call it my own ; yet , in the truth of the matter , I am at that time rather his man , than he my horse . The voluptuous men ( whom we are fallen upon ) may be ...
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... force , Rides , reins , and spurs them , like the unruly horse ; And servile Avarice yokes them now , Like toilsome oxen , to the plough : And sometimes Lust , like the misguided light , Draws them through all the labyrinths of night ...
... force , Rides , reins , and spurs them , like the unruly horse ; And servile Avarice yokes them now , Like toilsome oxen , to the plough : And sometimes Lust , like the misguided light , Draws them through all the labyrinths of night ...
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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.