The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... person is still in some sort a Roman candidate . He must feast and bribe , and attend and flatter , and adore many ... persons ; who more * Orat . pro M. Cælio . a favourite to the most infamous ? who , sometimes 8 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
... person is still in some sort a Roman candidate . He must feast and bribe , and attend and flatter , and adore many ... persons ; who more * Orat . pro M. Cælio . a favourite to the most infamous ? who , sometimes 8 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
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... person disgraced , and condemned to do what he pleases all the morning . There are some who , ra- ther than want this , are contented to have their rooms filled up every day with murmuring and cur- sing creditors , and to charge bravely ...
... person disgraced , and condemned to do what he pleases all the morning . There are some who , ra- ther than want this , are contented to have their rooms filled up every day with murmuring and cur- sing creditors , and to charge bravely ...
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... person be pan huper sebastus , there is a hyper - superlative ceremony then of conducting him to the bottom of the stairs , or to the very gate : as if there were such rules set to these Leviathans , as are to the sea , " Hitherto shalt ...
... person be pan huper sebastus , there is a hyper - superlative ceremony then of conducting him to the bottom of the stairs , or to the very gate : as if there were such rules set to these Leviathans , as are to the sea , " Hitherto shalt ...
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... person , as well as the most wise , most worthy , most happy , and the greatest of all mankind . His meaning , no doubt , was this , that he found more satisfaction to his mind ; too often disfigures it , not only by conceits , but by ...
... person , as well as the most wise , most worthy , most happy , and the greatest of all mankind . His meaning , no doubt , was this , that he found more satisfaction to his mind ; too often disfigures it , not only by conceits , but by ...
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... person who has a moderate mind and fortune , and lives in the conversation of two or three agreeable friends , with little com- Imerce in the world besides , who is esteemed well enough by his few neighbours that know him , and is truly ...
... person who has a moderate mind and fortune , and lives in the conversation of two or three agreeable friends , with little com- Imerce in the world besides , who is esteemed well enough by his few neighbours that know him , and is truly ...
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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.