Poems: Miscellanies, The Mistress, Pindarique Odes, Davideis, Verses Written on Several OccasionsCambridge University Press, 1905 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 21
... twas a Master in those ancient dayes When men sought Knowledge first , and by it Praise , Was a thing full of Reverence , Profit , Fame ; Father it self was but a Second Name . He scorn'd the profit ; his Instructions all Were like the ...
... twas a Master in those ancient dayes When men sought Knowledge first , and by it Praise , Was a thing full of Reverence , Profit , Fame ; Father it self was but a Second Name . He scorn'd the profit ; his Instructions all Were like the ...
Pagina 22
... too late . No Widows hear the jocond Bells , And take them for their Husbands Knells . No Drop of Blood is spilt which might be said To mark our joyful Holiday with Red . 3 . ' Twas only Heav'n could work this wondrous 22 ABRAHAM COWLEY.
... too late . No Widows hear the jocond Bells , And take them for their Husbands Knells . No Drop of Blood is spilt which might be said To mark our joyful Holiday with Red . 3 . ' Twas only Heav'n could work this wondrous 22 ABRAHAM COWLEY.
Pagina 23
... Twas only Heav'n could work this wondrous thing , And onely work't by such a King . Again the Northern Hindes may sing and plow , And fear no harm but from the weather now . Again may Tradesmen love their pain By knowing now for whom ...
... Twas only Heav'n could work this wondrous thing , And onely work't by such a King . Again the Northern Hindes may sing and plow , And fear no harm but from the weather now . Again may Tradesmen love their pain By knowing now for whom ...
Pagina 24
... twas wont to do For Jove of old , it now bore Thunder too ! 8 . Sure there are actions of this height and praise Destin'd to Charls his days . What will the Triumphs of his Battels be , Whose very Peace it self is Victorie ? When Heav'n ...
... twas wont to do For Jove of old , it now bore Thunder too ! 8 . Sure there are actions of this height and praise Destin'd to Charls his days . What will the Triumphs of his Battels be , Whose very Peace it self is Victorie ? When Heav'n ...
Pagina 29
... Twas like the Speech which from your Lips does fall , As soon as it was heard it ravisht all . So Eloquence Tully did from exile come ; Thus long'd for he return'd , and cherisht Rome , Which could no more his Tongue and Counsels miss ...
... Twas like the Speech which from your Lips does fall , As soon as it was heard it ravisht all . So Eloquence Tully did from exile come ; Thus long'd for he return'd , and cherisht Rome , Which could no more his Tongue and Counsels miss ...
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Poems: Miscellanies, The Mistress, Pindarique Odes, Davideis, Verses Written ... Abraham Cowley Vizualizare completă - 1905 |
Poems: Miscellanies, The Mistress, Pindarique Odes, Davideis, Verses Written ... Abraham Cowley Vizualizare completă - 1905 |
Poems: Miscellanies, The Mistress, Pindarique Odes, Davideis ..., Volumul 1 Abraham Cowley Vizualizare completă - 1905 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
Æneid Ahimelech ancient Angels Baal Beasts beauteous Beauty blest blood Body bold brest bright called Chro Chromius Crown curse David Death Divine e're Earth Edom Egyptian ev'en Eyes fair Fame fantastick Fate fear feast Fire Flame Friends gentle Gods hand happy hast Heart Heav'en Heaven Hebrew Henry Herringman Honour Israel Jonathan Josephus Jupiter kind King Land less Light live lov'd Love methinks Michol mighty misprints Moab Muse Musick Naioth Nature ne're Night noble o're Ortygia Osyris Ovid Pindar Plin Poets pride Prince Prophets proud rage rich sacred Saul says seem'd Septuagint shine sight slain Soul Stars Statius strong swift Sword Thee thine things thou dost thought Thunder Tree trembling Twas Verse Virg Virgil Whilst wise wonder word wretched Youth δὲ ἐν καὶ τε
Pasaje populare
Pagina 280 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Pagina 361 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Pagina 211 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Pagina 217 - I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Pagina 49 - Elisha-like (but with a wish much less, More fit thy greatness, and my littleness) Lo here I beg (I whom thou once didst prove So humble to esteem, so good to love) Not that thy spirit might on me doubled be, I ask but half thy mighty spirit for me ; And when my muse soars with so strong a wing, 'Twill learn of things divine, and first of thee to sing.
Pagina 41 - If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embassies, and spies, The frowns, and smiles, and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries, Numberless, nameless...
Pagina 217 - Judgment also will I lay to the line, And righteousness to the plummet: And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Pagina 395 - And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
Pagina 57 - Tis filled wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king. All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants, belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice...
Pagina 15 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being born, are grown; Their mothers' labour, not their own. In this scale gold, in th' other fame does lie, The weight of that mounts this so high.