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" The Wish Well then; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey of all earthly joy Does, of all meats, the soonest cloy; And they, methinks, deserve my pity Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings... "
The Essays of Abraham Cowley - Page 122
by Abraham Cowley - 1868 - 199 pages
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 3

English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...brought to move one step from thee> May'st thou no passioa have for me. [From " the Wish."] WELL, then ; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy ; And they, methinks, deserve...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 3

George Ellis - 1803 - 476 pages
...to move one step from thee, May'st thou no passion have for me. .' [From "The Wish."] WELL, then ; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy : And they, methinks, deserve...
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The Works of Abraham Cowley, Volume 3

Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 pages
...abstain from renewing my old school-boy's wish, in a copy of yerses to the same effect : Well then* ; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er...&c. And I never then proposed to myself any other * We have these verses, under the name of The Wish, in THE MISTRESS, vol. viii. p, 29. advantage from...
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The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volume 3

Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 pages
...abstain from renewing my old school-boy's wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect : Well then* ; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er...&c. And I never then proposed to myself any other • We have these versei, under the name of The With, in, THE MMTKESS, vol. viii. p. 29. advantage...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...abstain from renewing my old school boy's wish in a copy of verses to the same effect : Well then : I now do plainly see, This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, Ice.* And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration,...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - 1809 - 490 pages
...*-«eoetc:rCa'''^e. sir ^ ^^SSrSsSS*** ^r^^:?i^ ' do ev;r May'st thou no passion have tor me. THE WISH. WELL, then ; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy ; And they, methinks, deserve...
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The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volume 2

Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 332 pages
...pleasant seem to thee, " Thatthou shouldst come to live it o'er again in oaf THE WISH. WELL then ; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree ; The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy ; And they, mcthinks, deserve...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...Be brought to move one step from thee, May'st thou no passion have for me. THE WISH. TTTELL, then; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy ; And they, methinks, deserve...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...abstain from renewing my old schoolboy's wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect: Well then +; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er...other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration bit the getting into some moderately convenient retreat in the country; which I thought in that ease...
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Poems

Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...so pleasant seem to thee, that thou shouldst come to live it o'er again in me? THE WISH. Well, then, I now do plainly see, this busy world and I shall ne'er agree ; the very honey of all earthly joy does of all meats the soonest cloy : and they (methinks) deserve...
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