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... appears to have considered as in- jurious to his reputation ; though , during the suppres- sion of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with sufficient approbation . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the ...
... appears to have considered as in- jurious to his reputation ; though , during the suppres- sion of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with sufficient approbation . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the ...
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... appear that his compliance gained him con- fidence enough to be trusted without security , for the bond of his bail was ... appears busy among the experimental philosophers with the title of Dr. Cowley . There is no reason for supposing ...
... appear that his compliance gained him con- fidence enough to be trusted without security , for the bond of his bail was ... appears busy among the experimental philosophers with the title of Dr. Cowley . There is no reason for supposing ...
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... appears , however , from the Theatrical Register of Downes , the Prompter , to have been popularly considered as a satire on the Royalists . That he might shorten his tedious suspense , he pub- lished his pretensions and his discontent ...
... appears , however , from the Theatrical Register of Downes , the Prompter , to have been popularly considered as a satire on the Royalists . That he might shorten his tedious suspense , he pub- lished his pretensions and his discontent ...
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... appear ; But all my too much moisture owe To overflowings of the heart below . COWLEY . The Lover supposes his Lady acquainted with the ancient laws of augury and rites of sacrifice : And yet this death of mine , I fear , 20 COWLEY .
... appear ; But all my too much moisture owe To overflowings of the heart below . COWLEY . The Lover supposes his Lady acquainted with the ancient laws of augury and rites of sacrifice : And yet this death of mine , I fear , 20 COWLEY .
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... appear : When sound in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh out that too , with my breath . That the chaos was harmonised , has been recited of old ; but whence the ...
... appear : When sound in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh out that too , with my breath . That the chaos was harmonised , has been recited of old ; but whence the ...
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Página 312 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 51 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 60 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Página 305 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun ; And precious sand from southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.
Página 117 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Página 31 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Página 23 - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
Página 172 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Página 117 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Página 18 - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ' their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.