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Page vii
... condition of his fortune was equal to the temper of his mind , which was always content with moderate things . The first years of his youth were spent in Westminster - school , where he soon obtained and increased the noble genius pe ...
... condition of his fortune was equal to the temper of his mind , which was always content with moderate things . The first years of his youth were spent in Westminster - school , where he soon obtained and increased the noble genius pe ...
Page x
... condition of the most vigorous part of his life , he was wont to reflect , as the cause of the long interruption of his studies . Yet we have no reason to think that he lost so great a space of time , if we consider in what business he ...
... condition of the most vigorous part of his life , he was wont to reflect , as the cause of the long interruption of his studies . Yet we have no reason to think that he lost so great a space of time , if we consider in what business he ...
Page xiv
... condition . He now thought he had sacrificed enough of his life to his curiosity and expe- rience . He had enjoyed many excellent occasions of observation . He had been present in many great revolutions , which , in that tumultuous time ...
... condition . He now thought he had sacrificed enough of his life to his curiosity and expe- rience . He had enjoyed many excellent occasions of observation . He had been present in many great revolutions , which , in that tumultuous time ...
Page xv
... condition . He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners . He was sati- ated with the arts of court : which sort of life , though his virtue had made innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . These were the ...
... condition . He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners . He was sati- ated with the arts of court : which sort of life , though his virtue had made innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . These were the ...
Page xvii
... conditions , in the university and the court . But in his poetry as well as his life , he mingled with ex- cellent skill what was good in both states . In his b life , he joined the innocence and sincerity of the MR . A. COWLEY . xvii.
... conditions , in the university and the court . But in his poetry as well as his life , he mingled with ex- cellent skill what was good in both states . In his b life , he joined the innocence and sincerity of the MR . A. COWLEY . xvii.
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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.