...Scepters of the great. (Cowley 155) Abraham Cowley, whose translation I have quoted, comments: "To be a Husbandman, is but a retreat from the City; to be...world, or rather, a Retreat from the world, as it is mans; into the world, as it is Gods" (141). 12 The contrast between the philosopher-poet's elevated...

...Perhaps, as Abraham Cowley wrote of the philosophical husbandman, Fairfax's retreat to his estate was "but a Retreat from the world, as it is man's; into the world, as it is Gods."29 The fortress-garden is militarily managed, commemorating a military revolution by defusing...

...fortunatus m1nium, et bona qui sua novit !" To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city ; to 15 be a philosopher, from the world ; or rather, a retreat...appetite, and fortune allows but to a very few the 20 opportunites or possibility of applying themselves wholly to philosophy, the best mixture of humane...

...rich man, and a man who desired to be no richer. 0 Fortunatus nimium, & bona qui sua novit : To be a Husbandman, is but a retreat from the City; to be...world, or rather, a Retreat from the world, as it is mans; into the world, as it is Gods. But since Nature denies to most men the capacity or appetite,...

...rich man, and a man who desired to be no richer. O Fortunatus nimium, iff bona qui sua novit : To be a Husbandman, is but a retreat from the City; to be...world, or rather, a Retreat from the world, as it is mans; into the world, as it is Gods. But since Nature denies to most men the capacity or appetite,...

...nimium, & bona qui fua novjtl" To be a hufbandman, i* but a retreat from the city; to be a philofopher, from the world , or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man s into the world, at it is God's. ' But, fince nature denies to moft men the capacity or appetite,...