:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
ABRAHAM COWLEYDoes not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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