Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes, Volume 2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772 |
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... fortune , no eminent qualities of body , which have fometimes , or of mind , which have often , raised men to the highest dignities , fhould have the courage to at- tempt , and the happiness to fucceed in , fo improbable a defign , as ...
... fortune , no eminent qualities of body , which have fometimes , or of mind , which have often , raised men to the highest dignities , fhould have the courage to at- tempt , and the happiness to fucceed in , fo improbable a defign , as ...
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... fortune ( as men call it , that is , the ill - for- tune ) to attain his ends ; but it was be- cause his ends were fo unreasonable , that no human reafon could foresee them ; which made them , who had to do with him , believe , that he ...
... fortune ( as men call it , that is , the ill - for- tune ) to attain his ends ; but it was be- cause his ends were fo unreasonable , that no human reafon could foresee them ; which made them , who had to do with him , believe , that he ...
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... fortune , I can efpy no other but extraordinary dili- gence and infinite diffimulation ; and be lieve he was exalted above his nation , part- ly by , his own faults , but chiefly for ours . We have brought him thus briefly ( not through ...
... fortune , I can efpy no other but extraordinary dili- gence and infinite diffimulation ; and be lieve he was exalted above his nation , part- ly by , his own faults , but chiefly for ours . We have brought him thus briefly ( not through ...
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... Fortune , that , when she had a mind to be merry and to divert herself , fhe was wont to raise up fuch kind of people to the highest digni- ties . This fon of Fortune , Cromwell ( who was himself one of the primeft of her jests ) ...
... Fortune , that , when she had a mind to be merry and to divert herself , fhe was wont to raise up fuch kind of people to the highest digni- ties . This fon of Fortune , Cromwell ( who was himself one of the primeft of her jests ) ...
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... fortune to him , than all the victories and profperities of his life . For he feemed evidently ( methinks ) to be near the end of his deceitful glories ; his own army grew at laft as weary of him as the reft of the people ; and I never ...
... fortune to him , than all the victories and profperities of his life . For he feemed evidently ( methinks ) to be near the end of his deceitful glories ; his own army grew at laft as weary of him as the reft of the people ; and I never ...
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Page 256 - This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave.
Page 258 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Page 254 - ... of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me from being scandalous or remarkable on the defective side.
Page 122 - I hate, and yet I love thee too ; How can that be ? I know not how ; Only that so it is I know ; And feel with torment that 'tis so.
Page 8 - I was interrupted by a strange and terrible apparition ; for there appeared to me (arising out of the earth, as I conceived) the figure of a man, taller than a giant, or indeed than the shadow of any giant in the evening.
Page 3 - ... by ; and I retired back to my chamber, weary, and I think more melancholy than any of the mourners ; where I began to reflect...
Page 14 - ... (for there is no end of all the particulars of his glory) to bequeath all this with one word to his posterity ; to die with peace at home, and triumph abroad ; to be buried among kings...
Page 141 - We are here among the vast and noble scenes of nature ; we are there among the pitiful shifts of policy : we walk here in the light and open ways of the divine...
Page 96 - This is but a deception of the sight through a false medium ; for if a groom serve a gentleman in his chamber, that gentleman a lord, and that lord a prince ; the groom, the gentleman, and the lord, are as much servants one as the other...
Page 116 - Who by resolves and vows engag'd does stand For days, that yet belong to fate, Does, like an unthrift, mortgage his estate, Before it falls into his hand : The bondman of the cloister so...