Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes, Volume 2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772 |
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Page 96
... rich , and gaudy livery . I do not say , that he who fells his whole time and his own will for one hundred thousand , is not a wifer merchant than he who does it for one hundred pounds ; but I will fwear , they are both merchants , and ...
... rich , and gaudy livery . I do not say , that he who fells his whole time and his own will for one hundred thousand , is not a wifer merchant than he who does it for one hundred pounds ; but I will fwear , they are both merchants , and ...
Page 109
... rich may grow ; No matter , O ye gods ! that I'll allow : But let him peace and freedom never fee ; Let him not love this life , who loves not me . MARTIAL , Lib . II . Ep . liii . " Vis fieri liber ? " & c . WOULD you be free ? " Tis ...
... rich may grow ; No matter , O ye gods ! that I'll allow : But let him peace and freedom never fee ; Let him not love this life , who loves not me . MARTIAL , Lib . II . Ep . liii . " Vis fieri liber ? " & c . WOULD you be free ? " Tis ...
Page 130
... rich ; " Nor have thofe men without their fhare too liv'd , · Who both in life and death the world deceiv'd . folitude begets the noble fires of wit : whereas , the doc- trine of London , as of every great city , is , that folitude ...
... rich ; " Nor have thofe men without their fhare too liv'd , · Who both in life and death the world deceiv'd . folitude begets the noble fires of wit : whereas , the doc- trine of London , as of every great city , is , that folitude ...
Page 140
... rich man , and a man who defired to be no richer- J " O fortunatus nimium , & bona qui fua novit ! " To be a hufbandman , is but a retreat from the city ; to be a philofopher , from the world ; or rather , a retreat from the world , as ...
... rich man , and a man who defired to be no richer- J " O fortunatus nimium , & bona qui fua novit ! " To be a hufbandman , is but a retreat from the city ; to be a philofopher , from the world ; or rather , a retreat from the world , as ...
Page 143
... rich , and , which is better , there is no pof- fibility to be poor , without fuch negli- gence as can neither have excuse nor pity ; for a little ground will without question feed a little family , and the fuperfluities of life ( which ...
... rich , and , which is better , there is no pof- fibility to be poor , without fuch negli- gence as can neither have excuse nor pity ; for a little ground will without question feed a little family , and the fuperfluities of life ( which ...
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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...