“Il mondo è teatro di cambiamenti, e l'essere | Costante, nella Natura sarebbe incostanza.”
da Inconstancy, in The Mistress
Abraham Cowley: 45 citazioni1 Mi piace
Abraham Cowley frasi celebri
“È la curiosità che non meno della devozione forgia il pellegrino.”
citato in Being Erica, episodio 1
Abraham Cowley: Frasi in inglese
On the Death of Mr. William Harvey; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.”
Book I, lines 361-362
See also "One of our poets (which is it?) speaks of an everlasting now", Robert Southey, The Doctor, chap. xxv. p. 1
Davideis (1656)
“God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.”
The Garden, ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Ev'en Thou my breast with such blest rage inspire,
As mov'd the tuneful strings of Davids Lyre”
Book I, lines 25-26
Davideis (1656)
“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”
On the Death of Crashaw; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epilogue iii, line 303.
“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discover
And not to me, thy no less silent lover?”
Abraham Cowley Bathing in the River
Bathing in the River.
“We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.”
Discourse concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Book I, lines 451-464
Davideis (1656)
“An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.”
Book II, lines 801-802
Compare: "Loose his beard and hoary hair / Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air", Thomas Gray, The Bard, i. 2
Davideis (1656)
