Select Works of Mr. A. CowleyJ. Exshaw, D. Chamberlaine, W. Sleater [and 4 others], 1772 |
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Page 60
... poor- eft artifans , and carried a nomenclator with them , to whifper in their ear every man's name , least they should mistake it in their falutations : they shook the hand , and kiffed the cheek , of every popular tradesman ; they ...
... poor- eft artifans , and carried a nomenclator with them , to whifper in their ear every man's name , least they should mistake it in their falutations : they shook the hand , and kiffed the cheek , of every popular tradesman ; they ...
Page 78
... poor , nor with the great . The wings of those Neceffity has clipt , And they're in Fortune's Bridewell whipt To the laborious task of bread ; These are by various tyrants captive lead . Now wild Ambition with imperious force Rides ...
... poor , nor with the great . The wings of those Neceffity has clipt , And they're in Fortune's Bridewell whipt To the laborious task of bread ; These are by various tyrants captive lead . Now wild Ambition with imperious force Rides ...
Page 79
... poor prisoner keep ? Will they not fuffer him to fleep ? Make an escape ; out at the postern flee , And get fome bleffed hours of liberty : With a few friends , and a few dishes dine , And much of mirth and moderate wine . To thy bent ...
... poor prisoner keep ? Will they not fuffer him to fleep ? Make an escape ; out at the postern flee , And get fome bleffed hours of liberty : With a few friends , and a few dishes dine , And much of mirth and moderate wine . To thy bent ...
Page 84
... bafeft of the people would de- fpife them , and cry out , " Poor Scipio under- stood not how to live . " What an authority is [ z ] Seneca , Epist . lxxxvi . here for the credit of retreat ! and happy had 84 ESSAYS IN VERSE AND PROSE.
... bafeft of the people would de- fpife them , and cry out , " Poor Scipio under- stood not how to live . " What an authority is [ z ] Seneca , Epist . lxxxvi . here for the credit of retreat ! and happy had 84 ESSAYS IN VERSE AND PROSE.
Page 89
... poor Mufes richest manor - feat ! Ye country houses and retreat , Which all the happy gods fo love , " That for you oft they quit their bright and great Metropolis above . 3 . Here nature does a house for me erect , Nature , the wifeft ...
... poor Mufes richest manor - feat ! Ye country houses and retreat , Which all the happy gods fo love , " That for you oft they quit their bright and great Metropolis above . 3 . Here nature does a house for me erect , Nature , the wifeft ...
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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.