All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBeauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Ah, 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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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The present is an eternal now.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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