| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pągines
...Now it is a maxim of Nature, that one do to others, according as he would himself be done to. White. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now docs ever last. Cowley. How frail our passions ! They that but now for honour and for plate, Made the... | |
| Richard Hooker - 1830 - 584 pągines
...shortness in every of these, although we never had conceit of motion. But to define, without motion, * [" Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. There sits the Almighty, First of all, and End, Whom nothing but himself can comprehend ; Who with... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pągines
...me tread The beaten path and broad, that leads right on * The same expression is used by Cowley : " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past. But an eternal Now does always last." t Milton's father was well skilled in music. To opulence, nor did'st condemn thy son To the insipid... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 446 pągines
...me tread The beaten path and broad, that leads right on * The same expression is used by Cowlev : " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past. But an eternal Now does always last." t Milton's father was well skilled in music. To opulence, nor did'st condemn thy son To the insipid... | |
| 1836 - 748 pągines
...good luck to have numbers on their side. Addison (No. 590) quotes the following distich from Cowley : Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last. This is the germ of Crabbe's and Campbells celebrated thought. Hurd depraves, as much as he can, Addison's... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pągines
...that he comprehends infinite duration in everr moment: that eternity is with him а/ионгtum stans, a fixed point; or, which is as good sense, an infinite...existence, is either past or to come: to which the ingenióos Mr. Cowley alludes in his description of heaven: " Nothing ii there to come, and nothing... | |
| John Dick - 1838 - 564 pągines
...punctum stans, or nttnc semper .stans, and a celebrated poet has thus expressed it : Nothing there is to come, And nothing past, But an eternal NOW does always last.* These have been pronounced to be words which have no meaning ; but with the same critic we must acknowledge,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 572 pągines
...contracted to a point, and the whole history of experience and events is rolled up like the morning mist. " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past ; But an eternal NOW does ever last." To assert, that these laws of thought have a subjective reality, sufficient for our purposes,... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 pągines
...Explain upon a thing till all men doubt it ; And write about it, goddess, and about it. "f » Example. " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last."* Analysis. What an insatiable thirst hath this bastard philosophy for absurdity and contradiction !... | |
| George Campbell - 1840 - 450 pągines
...about it, goddess, and about it7. Of the same kind of school-metaphysics are these lines of Cowley : Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last8. What insatiable appetite has this bastard philosophy for absurdity and contradiction ! A now... | |
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