 What can be more extraordinary, than that a person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage to attempt, and the happiness...  The Works of Abraham Cowley - Page 54by Abraham Cowley - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 pages
...education, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes no shining talents of mind, which have often raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage to attempt, and the abilities to execute, so extraordinary a design as the subverting one of the most ancient and best... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 pages
...person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often raised men to the highest dignities, should...boldness to put his prince and master to an open and infamous death ; to banish that numerous and stronglyallied family ; to do all this under the name... | |
 | 1821 - 424 pages
...person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should...the destruction of one of the most ancient and most solidly founded monarchies upon the earth ? that he should have the power or boldness to put his prince... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should...the destruction of one of the most ancient, and most solid founded monarchies upon the earth ? That he should have the power, or boldness, to put his prince... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 246 pages
...person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should...boldness to put his prince and master to an open and infamous death; to banish that numerous and stronglyallied family; to do all this under the name and... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should...boldness to put his prince and master to an open and infamous death; to banish that numerous and stronglyallied family ; to do all this under the name and... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 pages
...mean birth, no fortune, no eminent quali- j ties of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which t have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should...improbable a design, as the destruction of one of the most antient and most solidly founded monarchies upon the earth ? that he should have the power or boldness... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should...improbable a design, as the destruction of one of the most antient and most solidly founded monarchies upon the earth ? that he should have the power or boldness... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should...improbable a design, as the destruction of one of the most antient and most solidly founded monarchies upon the earth ? that he should have the power or boldness... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1826 - 394 pages
...indeed, can be more extraordinary," as his eulogist, Cowley, justly asks, — " than that such a man should have the courage to attempt, and the happiness...the destruction of one of the most ancient, and most solid-founded monarchies upon the earth ? That he should have the power or boldness to put his prince... | |
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