The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... manors crave , Would be no lord but less a lord would have ; The ground he holds , if he his own can call , He quarrels not with heaven , because ' tis small : Let gay and toilsome greatness others please , He loves 20 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
... manors crave , Would be no lord but less a lord would have ; The ground he holds , if he his own can call , He quarrels not with heaven , because ' tis small : Let gay and toilsome greatness others please , He loves 20 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
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... ground , the rent of which devours all but the bare subsistence of the tenant whilst they who are proprietors of the land are either too proud , or , for want of that kind of education , too ignorant , to improve their estates , though ...
... ground , the rent of which devours all but the bare subsistence of the tenant whilst they who are proprietors of the land are either too proud , or , for want of that kind of education , too ignorant , to improve their estates , though ...
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... ground , but almost to tread upon it . We may talk what we please of lilies , and lions rampant , and spread eagles , in fields d'or or d'ar- gent ; but if heraldry were guided by reason , a plough in a field arable would be the most ...
... ground , but almost to tread upon it . We may talk what we please of lilies , and lions rampant , and spread eagles , in fields d'or or d'ar- gent ; but if heraldry were guided by reason , a plough in a field arable would be the most ...
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... ground in which these plants will thrive . It will bear nothing but the nettles or thorns of satire , which grow most naturally in the worst earth ; and therefore almost all poets , except those who were not able to eat bread without ...
... ground in which these plants will thrive . It will bear nothing but the nettles or thorns of satire , which grow most naturally in the worst earth ; and therefore almost all poets , except those who were not able to eat bread without ...
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... grounds . Ye see he did not contemn us peasants ; nay , so far was he from that insolence , that he always styles Eumæus , who kept the hogs , with wonderful respect , dov pogor , the divine swine - herd : he could have done no more for ...
... grounds . Ye see he did not contemn us peasants ; nay , so far was he from that insolence , that he always styles Eumæus , who kept the hogs , with wonderful respect , dov pogor , the divine swine - herd : he could have done no more for ...
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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.