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... together with his life . His solitude , from the very beginning , had never agreed so well with the constitu- tion of his body , as of his mind . The chief cause of it was , that , out of haste to be gone MR . A. COWLEY . xxxvii.
... together with his life . His solitude , from the very beginning , had never agreed so well with the constitu- tion of his body , as of his mind . The chief cause of it was , that , out of haste to be gone MR . A. COWLEY . xxxvii.
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... he never wanted a constant health , and strength of body . But as soon as ever he had found an opportunity of beginning indeed to live , and to enjoy himself in security , his contentment was first broken Xxxviii THE LIFE OF.
... he never wanted a constant health , and strength of body . But as soon as ever he had found an opportunity of beginning indeed to live , and to enjoy himself in security , his contentment was first broken Xxxviii THE LIFE OF.
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... body was attended to Westminster Abbey by a great number of persons of the most eminent quality , and followed with the praises of all good and learned men . It lies near the ashes of Chaucer and Spenser , the two most famous English ...
... body was attended to Westminster Abbey by a great number of persons of the most eminent quality , and followed with the praises of all good and learned men . It lies near the ashes of Chaucer and Spenser , the two most famous English ...
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... body ; on the contrary , it is commonly more vigorous , the less space it animates . And , as Statius says of little Tydeus , Totos infusa per artus Major in exiguo regnabat corpore virtus . I am not ignorant , that , by saying this of ...
... body ; on the contrary , it is commonly more vigorous , the less space it animates . And , as Statius says of little Tydeus , Totos infusa per artus Major in exiguo regnabat corpore virtus . I am not ignorant , that , by saying this of ...
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... body . So that it is almost as hard a thing to be a poet in despight of fortune , as it is in despight of nature . For my own part , neither my obligations to the Muses , nor expectations from them , are so great , as that I should ...
... body . So that it is almost as hard a thing to be a poet in despight of fortune , as it is in despight of nature . For my own part , neither my obligations to the Muses , nor expectations from them , are so great , as that I should ...
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Page 171 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Page 226 - This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone. The unknown are better than ill known. Rumour can ope the grave; Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends.
Page 203 - 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.
Page 227 - Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Page 83 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Page 130 - Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
Page 133 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.
Page 231 - Nor by me e'er shall you, You of all names the sweetest, and the best, You Muses, books, and liberty, and rest; You gardens, fields, and woods forsaken be, As long as life itself forsakes not me.
Page 58 - ... to usurp three kingdoms without any shadow of the least pretensions, and to govern them as unjustly as he got them ? to set himself up as an idol (which we know, as St. Paul says, in itself is nothing), and make the very streets of London like the valley of Hinnon, by burning the bowels of men as a sacrifice to his Molochship...
Page 181 - If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat, With any wish so mean as to be great, Continue, Heaven, still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love.