The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... sort a Roman candidate . He must feast and bribe , and attend and flatter , and adore many beasts , though not the beast with many heads . Catiline , who was so proud that he could not con- tent himself with a less power than Sylla's ...
... sort a Roman candidate . He must feast and bribe , and attend and flatter , and adore many beasts , though not the beast with many heads . Catiline , who was so proud that he could not con- tent himself with a less power than Sylla's ...
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... sort of guests , the endeavourers to be witty . † But every body pays him great respect ; and every body commends his meat , that is , his money ; every body admires the exquisite dressing and order- ing of it , that is , his clerk of ...
... sort of guests , the endeavourers to be witty . † But every body pays him great respect ; and every body commends his meat , that is , his money ; every body admires the exquisite dressing and order- ing of it , that is , his clerk of ...
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... sort of people , whom king James was wont to call the happiest of our nation , the men placed in the country by their fortune above a high constable , and yet beneath the trou- ble of a justice of peace ; in a moderate plenty , without ...
... sort of people , whom king James was wont to call the happiest of our nation , the men placed in the country by their fortune above a high constable , and yet beneath the trou- ble of a justice of peace ; in a moderate plenty , without ...
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... to those of a philosopher . There is no other sort of life that affords so many branches of praise to a panegyrist : the utility of it + De Senectute . Lib . I. c . i . to a man's self ; the usefulness , or rather 42 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
... to those of a philosopher . There is no other sort of life that affords so many branches of praise to a panegyrist : the utility of it + De Senectute . Lib . I. c . i . to a man's self ; the usefulness , or rather 42 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
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... sort of people do of customary oaths ? to usurp three kingdoms without any shadow of the least preten- sions , and to govern them as unjustly as he got them ? to set himself up as an idol ( which we know , as St. Paul says , " in itself ...
... sort of people do of customary oaths ? to usurp three kingdoms without any shadow of the least preten- sions , and to govern them as unjustly as he got them ? to set himself up as an idol ( which we know , as St. Paul says , " in itself ...
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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.