The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, כרך 41804 |
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עמוד 1
... beauty of each nervous line : Show how your pointed fatire's sterling wit , Does only knaves or formal blockheads hit ; Who're gravely dull , infipidly ferene , And carry all their wifdom in their mien ; Whom thus expos'd , thus ftripp ...
... beauty of each nervous line : Show how your pointed fatire's sterling wit , Does only knaves or formal blockheads hit ; Who're gravely dull , infipidly ferene , And carry all their wifdom in their mien ; Whom thus expos'd , thus ftripp ...
עמוד 5
... beauty entertains the fight , But baneful hemlock , and cold aconite ; In a dark grot the baleful haggard lay , Breathing black vengeance , and infecting day . But how deform'd , and worn with fpiteful woes , When Accius has applaufe ...
... beauty entertains the fight , But baneful hemlock , and cold aconite ; In a dark grot the baleful haggard lay , Breathing black vengeance , and infecting day . But how deform'd , and worn with fpiteful woes , When Accius has applaufe ...
עמוד 18
... Beauty's foft perfuading power ; Nor can bright Hebe's charms Irer bloom fecure . Whilft meagre Pthifis gives a filent blow , 155 Her ftrokes are fure , but her advances flow : No loud alarms , nor fierce affaults , are fhown ; She ...
... Beauty's foft perfuading power ; Nor can bright Hebe's charms Irer bloom fecure . Whilft meagre Pthifis gives a filent blow , 155 Her ftrokes are fure , but her advances flow : No loud alarms , nor fierce affaults , are fhown ; She ...
עמוד 26
... beauty , and confess The wonder greater , and the fiction lefs . Like human victims here we ftand decreed To worship thofe bright altars where we bleed . Who braves his fate in fields , must tremble here ; Triumphant Love more vaffals ...
... beauty , and confess The wonder greater , and the fiction lefs . Like human victims here we ftand decreed To worship thofe bright altars where we bleed . Who braves his fate in fields , must tremble here ; Triumphant Love more vaffals ...
עמוד 27
... Beauty founded , and by Wit defign'd . In the good age of ghoftly ignorance , How did cathedrals rife , and zeal advance ! The merry monks faid orifons at cafe , Large were their meals , and light their penances ; Pardons for fins were ...
... Beauty founded , and by Wit defign'd . In the good age of ghoftly ignorance , How did cathedrals rife , and zeal advance ! The merry monks faid orifons at cafe , Large were their meals , and light their penances ; Pardons for fins were ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
arms behold beneath blood breaſt bright Cæfar caft caufe charms croud death defcending diftant doft dreadful earth ev'n eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fatal fate fatire fcorn fear feas fecret feek feems feen fhade fhall fhining fhore fhould fide field fierce fighs fight fire firft firſt fix'd fkies flain flame flave flies flood fmile foft foldier fome foon foul fpread fpring ftand ftill ftreams fuccefs fuch fupplies fwelling fword Gaul gods grace hafte hand head heart heaven himſelf Jove juft labours laft laſt Latian lefs loft Lucan lyre maid mighty mourn Mufe muft muſt numbers nymph o'er once pain peace Pentheus PHARSALIA plain pleaſure Pompey Pompey's proud rage reft reign rife Roman Rome Scythian ſhall ſkies ſky ſtand ſtate ſtill tears thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand verfe whofe winds wretched yield youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 27 - no more the fire of beauty warms, But wicked wealth ufurps the power of charms. What pains to get the gaudy thing you hate, To fwell in ihow, and be a wretch in ftate ! At plays you ogle, at the ring you bow ; Ev'n churches are no
עמוד 79 - And other bodies in new worlds they find. Thus life for ever runs its endlefs race, And like a line, death but divides the fpace, A ftop which can but for a moment laft, A point between the future and the paft.
עמוד 216 - with fear, and fwiftly ran O'er craggy mountains, and the flowery plain ; Through brakes and thickets forc'd his way, and flew Through many a ring, where once he did purfue. In vain he oft endeavour'd to proclaim His new misfortune, and to tell his name ; Nor voice
עמוד 27 - now ; There golden idols all your vows receive ; She is no goddcfs who has nought to give. Oh may once more the happy age appear. When words were artlefs, and the thoughts fincere ¡ When gold and grandeur were unenvy'd things, And courts
עמוד 303 - can guefs your fenfe. Your unripe hopes their harveft muft attend : Be rul'd by me, and Time may be your friend. This is enough to let you underftand, For now my pen has tir'd my tender hand ; My woman knows the fecret of my heart, .And may hereafter better news
עמוד 210 - in his make He ript her womb, and fet the child at large,' And gave him to the centaur Chiron's charge': Then in his fury black'd the raven o'er, And bid him prate in his white plumes no more. OCYRRHOE TRANSFORMED TO A MARE.
עמוד 25 - form that glad's a nation's eyes ; Beneath her feet four mighty realms appear, And with due reverence pay their homage there. Britain and Ireland feem to own her grace, And even wild India wears a fmiling face. But France alone with downcaft eyes is feen, The fad attendant of fo good a Queen : Ungrateful country ! to forget fo
עמוד 50 - to believe To forfake the fine folk of the town ? To think that a beauty fo gay, She could doat on fo lowly a clown, Or that her fond heart would not grieve, So kind and fo confiant would prove ; Or go clad like our maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage
עמוד 282 - may at laft my weary age •**• ' Find out the peaceful hermitage, ' The hairy gown and niofly cell,
עמוד 47 - While in your early days of reputation, You for blue garters had not fuch a paffion ; While yet you did not ufe (as now your trade is) To drink with noble lords, and toaft their ladies ; Thou, Jacob Tonfon, wert to my conceiving, The