When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
ABRAHAM COWLEYAh, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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The present is an eternal now.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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