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" Because the Weather is not still the same, That it was yesterday : or blame the Year, Cause the Spring, Flowers ; and Autumn, Fruit does bear. "
The Young Bride at Home: Or, A Help to Connubial Happiness : with a ... - Page 225
by Hannah More - 1836 - 252 pages
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The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volume 2

Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 322 pages
...yesterday — or blame the year, 'Cause the spring flowers, and autumn fruit, does bear. The world 'sa scene of changes ; and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy ; For 't were to break the laws herself has made : Our substances themselves do fleet and fade ; The most...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...That it was yesterday — or blame the year, 'Cause the spring flowers, and autumn fruit, does hear. The world's a scene of changes ; and to be Constant,...substances themselves do fleet and fade ; The most lix'd being still does move and fly, Swift as the wings of Time 'tis measur'd by. T' imagine then that...
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English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from ...

George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...of religion and virtue, while he is cultivating his talents, and storing his mind with science ; . , The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant in nature were inconstancy. COWLEY. Continual is uaed in the proper sense only, constant is employed in the moral sense to denote...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 6

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...pillars, aud hcavtn's axle-tree. Exemplify her constancy ; Great changes never change her. Davies. The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in nature wt-re inconstancy. Cowlcy. If you take highly rectified spirit of wine, and dephlegmfd spirit of urine,...
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Noonday Exigencies in America

Hinton Rowan Helper - African Americans - 1871 - 224 pages
...; and this confessed Some are, and must be, greater than the rest." Cowley also assures us that, " The world's a scene of changes ; and to be Constant in Nature wore inconstancy." In one of its dissertations on the wonderful diversities and dissimilarities of...
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The biblical museum, Volume 5

James Comper Gray - 1873 - 406 pages
...was to appear, was to be inferred an entire change in the economyofood." — Bieger. " The world is a scene of changes, and to be constant in nature were inconstancy." — Cotctq/. e Macknight. Christ not of the priestly tribe a De. x. 8; Nu. iii. S— S. 4 Ge. xlix....
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English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious ...

George Crabb - English language - 1882 - 876 pages
...constant endeavor of a peaceable man to live peaceably. 'Til all blank sadness or continual tears. POPE. The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant in nature were inconstancy. COWLEY. Continual may sometimes have a moral application ; as when we say, contentment is a continual...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...éternellement. MALHERBE: Odes. Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange. ROCHESTER. The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant in Nature were inconstancy. COWLEY. Short is the uncertain reign of pomp and mortal pride : New turns and changes every day Arc...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...eternellement. MALHERBE: Odes. Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange. ROCHESTER. rld. Its very name may be cited in evidence, referring us, as it does, to COWLEY. Short is the uncertain reign of pomp and mortal pride : New turns and changes every day Are...
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Dictionary of Quotations: (English)

Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...several meanings reaL" SIR H. TAYLOR. Philip von Artevelde, Pt. II. (Sir Fleurant), Act I., Sc. II. " The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy." COWLEY. Inconstancy. " The world's a wood, in which all lose their way, Though by a different path...
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