Select Works of Mr. A. CowleyJ. Exshaw, D. Chamberlaine, W. Sleater [and 4 others], 1772 |
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... design , as the deftruc- tion of one of the most antient , and moft folidly founded monarchies upon the earth ? that he fhould have the power or boldness to put his prince and mafter to an open and infamous death to banish that numerous ...
... design , as the deftruc- tion of one of the most antient , and moft folidly founded monarchies upon the earth ? that he fhould have the power or boldness to put his prince and mafter to an open and infamous death to banish that numerous ...
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... design . By him a river conftantly complains , The birds above rejoice with various strains , And in the folemn fcene their orgies keep , Like dreams , mix'd with the gravity of sleep ; Sleep , which does always there for entrance wa ...
... design . By him a river conftantly complains , The birds above rejoice with various strains , And in the folemn fcene their orgies keep , Like dreams , mix'd with the gravity of sleep ; Sleep , which does always there for entrance wa ...
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... design beyond my wall ) whole and intire to lie , In no unactive ease , and no unglorious poverty . Or , as Virgil has faid , shorter and better for me , that I might there " Studiis florere ignobilis [ p ] otî : " ( though I could wish ...
... design beyond my wall ) whole and intire to lie , In no unactive ease , and no unglorious poverty . Or , as Virgil has faid , shorter and better for me , that I might there " Studiis florere ignobilis [ p ] otî : " ( though I could wish ...
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... design was loft ! A famous perfon of their off - spring , the late giant of our nation , when from the condition of a very inconfiderable captain , he had made himself lieutenant general of an army of little Titans , which was his firft ...
... design was loft ! A famous perfon of their off - spring , the late giant of our nation , when from the condition of a very inconfiderable captain , he had made himself lieutenant general of an army of little Titans , which was his firft ...
Page 161
... miferable be a while . But ' tis with a design only to gain What may their age with plenteous cafe maintain . The The prudent pifaire does this leffon teach , And industry OF MR . A. COWLEY . 161 Horace, Lib I Sat i imitated.
... miferable be a while . But ' tis with a design only to gain What may their age with plenteous cafe maintain . The The prudent pifaire does this leffon teach , And industry OF MR . A. COWLEY . 161 Horace, Lib I Sat i imitated.
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Page 197 - 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 196 - For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Page 102 - ... the means of doing it be as easy and certain in this, as in any other track of commerce. If there were always two or three thousand youths, for seven or eight years, bound to this profession, that they might learn the whole art of it, and afterwards be enabled to be...
Page 133 - Among many other arts and excellencies, which you enjoy, I am glad to find this favourite of mine the most predominant ; that you choose this for your wife, though...
Page 79 - To thy bent mind some relaxation give, And steal one day out of thy life to live. Oh happy man (he cries) to whom kind Heaven Has such a freedom always given ! Why, mighty madman, what should hinder thee From...
Page 100 - To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world ; or rather, a, retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
Page 10 - ... them; and lastly (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, and with more than regal solemnity ; and to leave a name behind him, not to be extinguished...
Page 87 - ... passions, a man had better be in a fair than in a wood alone. They may, like petty thieves, cheat us perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company, but like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us when they catch us alone. This is but to retreat from men, and fall into the hands of devils.
Page 131 - I NEVER had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study of nature ; And there (with no design beyond my wall) whole and intire to lie, In no unactive ease, and no unglorious poverty.
Page 6 - 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.