Prose Works of Abraham Cowley ; Including His Essays in Prose and VerseW. Pickering, 1826 - 238 pages |
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Page vii
... able to read . That , indeed , is a poem fitter for the examination of men , than the consideration of a child . But in him it met with a fancy , whose strength was not to be judged by the number of his years . In the thirteenth year of ...
... able to read . That , indeed , is a poem fitter for the examination of men , than the consideration of a child . But in him it met with a fancy , whose strength was not to be judged by the number of his years . In the thirteenth year of ...
Page ix
... able to perfect them with such felicity . The first occasion of his entering into business , was the elegy that he writ on Mr. Hervey's death : wherein he described the highest characters of religion , know- ledge , and friendship , in ...
... able to perfect them with such felicity . The first occasion of his entering into business , was the elegy that he writ on Mr. Hervey's death : wherein he described the highest characters of religion , know- ledge , and friendship , in ...
Page xxiv
... able : the design , to submit mortal wit to heavenly truths : in all , there is an admirable mixture of human virtues and passions , with religious raptures . The truth is , Sir , methinks , in other matters , his wit excelled most ...
... able : the design , to submit mortal wit to heavenly truths : in all , there is an admirable mixture of human virtues and passions , with religious raptures . The truth is , Sir , methinks , in other matters , his wit excelled most ...
Page xxxv
... able to enjoy their very retreats in security . Yet , I confess , if any deserved to have this privilege , it ought to have been granted to him , as soon as any man living , upon consideration of the manner in which he spent the liberty ...
... able to enjoy their very retreats in security . Yet , I confess , if any deserved to have this privilege , it ought to have been granted to him , as soon as any man living , upon consideration of the manner in which he spent the liberty ...
Page xxxix
... able to recommend them to others . His body was attended to Westminster Abbey by a great number of persons of the most eminent quality , and followed with the praises of all good and learned men . It lies near the ashes of Chaucer and ...
... able to recommend them to others . His body was attended to Westminster Abbey by a great number of persons of the most eminent quality , and followed with the praises of all good and learned men . It lies near the ashes of Chaucer and ...
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Page 224 - To-morrow you will live, you always cry; In what far country does this morrow lie, That 'tis so mighty long ere it arrive? Beyond the Indies does this morrow live? Tis so far-fetched, this morrow, that I fear Twill be both very old and very dear. To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itselfs too late, the wise lived yesterday.
Page 222 - 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 205 - 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 229 - Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Page 134 - ... 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. A silver stream shall roll his waters near, Gilt with the sunbeams here and there, On whose enamelled bank I 'll walk, And see how prettily they smile, and hear How prettily they talk.
Page 179 - O'er all the vegetable world command ? And the wild giants of the wood receive What law he's pleased to give ? He bids the' ill-natured crab produce The gentler apple's winy juice; The golden fruit, that worthy is Of Galatea's purple kiss : He does the savage hawthorn teach To bear the medlar and the pear: He bids the rustic plum to rear A noble trunk, and be a peach.
Page 83 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Page 178 - Where does the wisdom and the power divine In a more bright and sweet reflection shine ? Where do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book ? If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy Ev'n in a bush the radiant Deity.
Page 176 - Allows the meanest gard'ner's board. The wanton taste no fish or fowl can choose, For which the grape or melon she would lose ; Though all th...
Page 58 - ... to usurp three kingdoms without any shadow of the least pretensions, 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 is nothing), and make the very streets of London like the valley of Hinnon, by burning the bowels of men as a sacrifice to his Molochship...