The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... kind of rack , that 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 ...
... kind of rack , that 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 ...
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... kind of rack , that 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 ...
... kind of rack , that 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 ...
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... kind heaven Has such a freedom always given ! Why , mighty madman , what should hinder thee From being every day as free ? III . In all the freeborn nations of the air , Never did bird a spirit so mean and sordid bear , As to exchange ...
... kind heaven Has such a freedom always given ! Why , mighty madman , what should hinder thee From being every day as free ? III . In all the freeborn nations of the air , Never did bird a spirit so mean and sordid bear , As to exchange ...
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... prove . ] A prettily - invented word , to con- vey that idea of degeneracy , which , in speaking of our own kind , we so commonly express by the epithet , unmanly.— Hurd . C " Now will I sleep , now eat , now OF LIBERTY . 25 25.
... prove . ] A prettily - invented word , to con- vey that idea of degeneracy , which , in speaking of our own kind , we so commonly express by the epithet , unmanly.— Hurd . C " Now will I sleep , now eat , now OF LIBERTY . 25 25.
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... kind releasing knell . VI . If life should a well - order'd poem be ( In which he only hits the white Who joins true profit with the best delight ) The more heroic strain let others take , Mine the Pindaric way I'll make ; The matter ...
... kind releasing knell . VI . If life should a well - order'd poem be ( In which he only hits the white Who joins true profit with the best delight ) The more heroic strain let others take , Mine the Pindaric way I'll make ; The matter ...
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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.