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Abraham Cowley. This , Sir , you can testify to have been the innocent occasion of these words , on which so much clamour was raised . Yet , seeing his good intentions were so ill interpreted , he told me , the last time that ever I saw ...
Abraham Cowley. This , Sir , you can testify to have been the innocent occasion of these words , on which so much clamour was raised . Yet , seeing his good intentions were so ill interpreted , he told me , the last time that ever I saw ...
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... innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . These were the reasons that moved him to forego all public employments , and to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business ...
... innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . These were the reasons that moved him to forego all public employments , and to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business ...
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... innocent con- science , were his constant companions . His poetry indeed he took with him , but he made that an ancho- rite as well as himself ; he only dedicated it to the service of his Maker , to describe the great images of religion ...
... innocent con- science , were his constant companions . His poetry indeed he took with him , but he made that an ancho- rite as well as himself ; he only dedicated it to the service of his Maker , to describe the great images of religion ...
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Abraham Cowley. life , he joined the innocence and sincerity of the scholar with the humanity and good behaviour of the courtier . In his poems , he united the solidity and art of the one with the gentility and gracefulness of the other ...
Abraham Cowley. life , he joined the innocence and sincerity of the scholar with the humanity and good behaviour of the courtier . In his poems , he united the solidity and art of the one with the gentility and gracefulness of the other ...
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... might not he take the liberty to fetch from thence some ornament , for the innocent pas- sions , and natural truths , and moral virtues , which he describes ? This is confutation enough to that sort of men . χχίν THE LIFE OF.
... might not he take the liberty to fetch from thence some ornament , for the innocent pas- sions , and natural truths , and moral virtues , which he describes ? This is confutation enough to that sort of men . χχίν THE LIFE OF.
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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.