The Works of the English Poets: CowleyH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... shall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful found : That to the spheres themselves fhall filence bring , Untune the univerfal ftring : The all the wide - extended sky , And all th ' harmonious ...
... shall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful found : That to the spheres themselves fhall filence bring , Untune the univerfal ftring : The all the wide - extended sky , And all th ' harmonious ...
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... shall make its hearers ears . Then shall the scatter'd atoms crowding come Back to their ancient home ; Some from birds , from fifhes fome ; Some from earth , and fome from feas ; Some from beafts , and fome from trees ; Some defcend ...
... shall make its hearers ears . Then shall the scatter'd atoms crowding come Back to their ancient home ; Some from birds , from fifhes fome ; Some from earth , and fome from feas ; Some from beafts , and fome from trees ; Some defcend ...
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... shall see That thus it needs must be- To things immortal , Time can do no wrong , And that which never is to die , for ever must be young . DESTINY . " Hoc quoque Fatale eft fic ipfum expendere Fatum . " Trange and unnatural ! let ' s ...
... shall see That thus it needs must be- To things immortal , Time can do no wrong , And that which never is to die , for ever must be young . DESTINY . " Hoc quoque Fatale eft fic ipfum expendere Fatum . " Trange and unnatural ! let ' s ...
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... wit . The time ' s fet forth already which shall quell Stiff Reason , when it offers to rébel ; Which thefe great fecrets fhall unfeal , And new philofophies reveal : S A few • A few years more , so foon hadst thou 36 COWLEY'S POEMS .
... wit . The time ' s fet forth already which shall quell Stiff Reason , when it offers to rébel ; Which thefe great fecrets fhall unfeal , And new philofophies reveal : S A few • A few years more , so foon hadst thou 36 COWLEY'S POEMS .
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... shall both be slain , Shall struggle with Death's pangs in vain , And the whole world their funeral pile become . The wide - ftretch'd fcroll of heaven , which we Immortal as the Deity think , With all the beauteous characters that in ...
... shall both be slain , Shall struggle with Death's pangs in vain , And the whole world their funeral pile become . The wide - ftretch'd fcroll of heaven , which we Immortal as the Deity think , With all the beauteous characters that in ...
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Página 344 - 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.
Página 358 - 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.
Página 209 - ... 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...
Página 316 - I myself am able yet to do, is only to recommend to mankind the search of that felicity, which you instruct them how to find and to enjoy.
Página 358 - I remember when I began to read, and to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlour (I know not by what accident, for she herself never in her life read any book but of devotion), but there was wont to lie Spenser's works...
Página 303 - Sometimes he lops the barren trees around, And grafts new life into the fruitful wound ; Sometimes he shears his flock, and sometimes he Stores up the golden treasures of the bee.
Página 276 - I hate, and yet I love thee too ; How can that be ? I know not how ; Only that so it is I know ; And feel with torment that 'tis so.
Página 277 - ... starve, without them ; but if once we be thoroughly engaged in the love of letters, instead of being wearied with the length of any day, we shall only complain of the shortness of our whole life. O vita, stulto longa, sapienti brevis...
Página 342 - ... him, if he have much to do in human affairs. The only advice therefore which I can give him is, to be...
Página 314 - 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...