Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes, Volume 2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772 |
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... never fo much forewarned of the evil confequences ; much 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 ...
... never fo much forewarned of the evil confequences ; much 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 ...
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... never did me , or any friend of mine , the leaft injury ; and with that , transported by a holy fury , I fell into this fudden rapture : I. Curft be the man ( what do I wish ? as though The wretch already were not fo ; But But curft on ...
... never did me , or any friend of mine , the leaft injury ; and with that , transported by a holy fury , I fell into this fudden rapture : I. Curft be the man ( what do I wish ? as though The wretch already were not fo ; But But curft on ...
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... never more thine hand Lift up this rod against our land . A tyrant is a rod and ferpent too , And brings worse plagues than Egypt knew . What rivers ftain'd with blood have been ! " What ftorm and hail - fhot have we seen ! What fores ...
... never more thine hand Lift up this rod against our land . A tyrant is a rod and ferpent too , And brings worse plagues than Egypt knew . What rivers ftain'd with blood have been ! " What ftorm and hail - fhot have we seen ! What fores ...
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... never blush'd before . 8 . If by our fins the divine juftice be Call'd to this laft extremity , Let fome denouncing Jonas firft be fent , To try , if England can repent . Methinks , Methinks , at least , fome prodigy , Some dreadful OF ...
... never blush'd before . 8 . If by our fins the divine juftice be Call'd to this laft extremity , Let fome denouncing Jonas firft be fent , To try , if England can repent . Methinks , Methinks , at least , fome prodigy , Some dreadful OF ...
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... never attain to ) , and to crown all this with illuftrious and heroical under- takings and fucceffes upon all our foreign enemies : do but ( I say again ) confider this , and you will confefs , that his pro- digious merits were a better ...
... never attain to ) , and to crown all this with illuftrious and heroical under- takings and fucceffes upon all our foreign enemies : do but ( I say again ) confider this , and you will confefs , that his pro- digious merits were a better ...
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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...