The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
ABRAHAM COWLEYTo th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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