Lives of Sacred Poets, כרך 2J.W. Parker, 1838 - 363 עמודים |
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עמוד
... Homer undergoes the polishing refinement of Virgil ; and Pindar catches a sweeter note from his Latin imitator ; and the orator of the Bema is suppled in the Forum ; before they assume the form of grace , and shine with the.
... Homer undergoes the polishing refinement of Virgil ; and Pindar catches a sweeter note from his Latin imitator ; and the orator of the Bema is suppled in the Forum ; before they assume the form of grace , and shine with the.
עמוד 14
... Homer of his country ; ever remember- ing , as he declared , that although it may be possible to escape detection of man , from the eye of the Almighty nothing is hidden . An unguarded expression of his religious opinions appears to ...
... Homer of his country ; ever remember- ing , as he declared , that although it may be possible to escape detection of man , from the eye of the Almighty nothing is hidden . An unguarded expression of his religious opinions appears to ...
עמוד 22
... Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso , are a diffuse , and the book of Job a brief model ; or whe- ther the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept , or Nature to be followed , which in them that know art , and use ...
... Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso , are a diffuse , and the book of Job a brief model ; or whe- ther the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept , or Nature to be followed , which in them that know art , and use ...
עמוד 46
... Homer . Milton's admirers , therefore , were to be sought among the high - minded few who are always to be found in every country and under every government . Barrow , a learned physician , and Marvell , himself a poet , prefixed verses ...
... Homer . Milton's admirers , therefore , were to be sought among the high - minded few who are always to be found in every country and under every government . Barrow , a learned physician , and Marvell , himself a poet , prefixed verses ...
עמוד 52
... from ten thousand lyres breaking into jubilee , and the River of Bliss rolling " o'er Elysian flowers its amber stream . ” The fancy of our English Homer did not shine less beautifully at its setting , than at its dawn ; 52 JOHN MILTON .
... from ten thousand lyres breaking into jubilee , and the River of Bliss rolling " o'er Elysian flowers its amber stream . ” The fancy of our English Homer did not shine less beautifully at its setting , than at its dawn ; 52 JOHN MILTON .
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
admiration affecting affectionate appeared beautiful Bishop Bishop of Bath blank verse Bodham character charm cheerful Christian church colours Cowper death delight divine Dryden Eartham elegance expression fancy father favour feelings garden genius Gentleman's Magazine grace happy Hayley heart heaven Heber Herbert Croft Hodnet Homer honour hope Hymn Iliad Jeremy Taylor JOHN MILTON Johnson Joseph Warton labours Lady Austen Lady Hesketh Latin learned letter light lively Lord manner melancholy Milton mind morning nature never Night Thoughts Nogays numbers o'er observed Olney Paradise Lost passage passed piety pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope praise prayer religion religious remark sacred satire says scene seems sentiment sermon Smectymnuus song sorrow soul Southey spirit sublime suffered sweet tenderness thee thou tion translation truth Unwin verse versification Vincent Bourne virtues walk Watts Weston writer Young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 234 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
עמוד 133 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
עמוד 132 - GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise Within the vail, and see The saints above — how great their joys, How bright their glories be ! 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.
עמוד 108 - Direct, control, suggest this day All I design, or do, or say, That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite ! Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
עמוד 22 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
עמוד 20 - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
עמוד 240 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
עמוד 234 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God...
עמוד 250 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
עמוד 310 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...