Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes, Volume 2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772 |
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... less than forty thoufand ? pretend the defence of parliaments , and violently to diffolve all even of his own calling , and almoft choofing ? to under- take the reformation of religion , to rob it . even to the very skin , and then to ...
... less than forty thoufand ? pretend the defence of parliaments , and violently to diffolve all even of his own calling , and almoft choofing ? to under- take the reformation of religion , to rob it . even to the very skin , and then to ...
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... less impudently the other ? to fight against monarchy when he declared for it , and declare against it when he con- trived for it in his own perfon ? to abafe perfidiously and fupplant ingratefully his own general [ b ] firft , and ...
... less impudently the other ? to fight against monarchy when he declared for it , and declare against it when he con- trived for it in his own perfon ? to abafe perfidiously and fupplant ingratefully his own general [ b ] firft , and ...
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... less proper for this fubject ; for it is fpoken to a perfon who was proud and in- folent against thofe dead men , to whom he had been humble and obedient whilst they lived . " Your highness may pleafe ( faid I ) to add the verfe that ...
... less proper for this fubject ; for it is fpoken to a perfon who was proud and in- folent against thofe dead men , to whom he had been humble and obedient whilst they lived . " Your highness may pleafe ( faid I ) to add the verfe that ...
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... less if he find not only the concurrence of the pre- fent , but the approbation too of following ages , which have the liberty to judge more freely . The mischief of tyranny is too great , even in the fhortest time that it can continue ...
... less if he find not only the concurrence of the pre- fent , but the approbation too of following ages , which have the liberty to judge more freely . The mischief of tyranny is too great , even in the fhortest time that it can continue ...
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... less wonderful art and feli- city fo rejoin them as to make a new vef- fel more tight and beautiful than the old one , deferves , no doubt , to have the com- ' mand of her ( even as his highness had ) by the defire of the seamen and ...
... less wonderful art and feli- city fo rejoin them as to make a new vef- fel more tight and beautiful than the old one , deferves , no doubt , to have the com- ' mand of her ( even as his highness had ) by the defire of the seamen and ...
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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...