The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, כרך 1W. Strahan, T. Payne, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, T. Lowndes, T. Cadell, T. Caslon, J. Nichols, and T. Evans, 1779 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 96
עמוד xxii
Matthew Prior. my feverer ftudies ) at your Lordship's feet , I fhall engage your more serious reflection : happy , if in all my endeavours I may contribute to your delight , or to your inftruction . I am , with all duty and respect , My ...
Matthew Prior. my feverer ftudies ) at your Lordship's feet , I fhall engage your more serious reflection : happy , if in all my endeavours I may contribute to your delight , or to your inftruction . I am , with all duty and respect , My ...
עמוד xxviii
... fhall be my perpetual with , he may be one of the greatest men that our age , or poffibly our nation has bred ; and leave materials for a panegyric , not unworthy the pen of fome future Pliny . From fo noble a fubject as the Earl of ...
... fhall be my perpetual with , he may be one of the greatest men that our age , or poffibly our nation has bred ; and leave materials for a panegyric , not unworthy the pen of fome future Pliny . From fo noble a fubject as the Earl of ...
עמוד 2
... fhall ride Down spreading Fate's unnavigable tide . What , though ftill it farther tend ? Still ' tis farther from its end ; And , in the bosom of that boundless sea , Still finds its error lengthen with its way . III . With daring ...
... fhall ride Down spreading Fate's unnavigable tide . What , though ftill it farther tend ? Still ' tis farther from its end ; And , in the bosom of that boundless sea , Still finds its error lengthen with its way . III . With daring ...
עמוד 5
... fhall give Her immortal perfpective ; And Grace's prefence Nature's lofs retrieve : Then thy enliven'd foul fhall fee , That all the volumes of philofophy , With all their comments , never cou'd invent So politick an inftrument , To ...
... fhall give Her immortal perfpective ; And Grace's prefence Nature's lofs retrieve : Then thy enliven'd foul fhall fee , That all the volumes of philofophy , With all their comments , never cou'd invent So politick an inftrument , To ...
עמוד 12
... fhall I court thy dearest truth , When beauty ceases to engage ; So thinking on thy charming youth , I'll love it o'er again in age : So Time itself our raptures fhall improve , While still we wake to joy , and live to love . AN A N ...
... fhall I court thy dearest truth , When beauty ceases to engage ; So thinking on thy charming youth , I'll love it o'er again in age : So Time itself our raptures fhall improve , While still we wake to joy , and live to love . AN A N ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
againſt arms blefs bleft bofom breaſt ceaſe charms Cloe confefs conqueft Cupid Dæmon darts dear death defire Derry dreft e'er Emma Emma's erft eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fate fecret fent fhall fhew fhould fighs fing firſt flame foft fome fong foon forrow ftand ftill fubject fuch fure fword George Rooke glorious goddeſs grene wode go grief happy heart Heaven Henry hero himſelf honour houſe Jove juft king laft lefs loft Lord maid mankynde I love maſter Mufe muft muſt Namur ne'er numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er paffion Pindar pleaſe pleaſure poet praiſe preſent profe purſue quæ rage raiſe reafon rife rove ſaid Sambre ſay ſhall ſhe ſhow ſpeak ſpoils ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtill thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thought Venus verfe verſe virtue whilft whofe William's wiſh wode wyll youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 119 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
עמוד 217 - To John I ow'd great obligation ; But John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : Sure John and I are more than quit.
עמוד 30 - Gather all the fmiling hours ; Such as with friendly care have guarded Patriots and kings in rightful wars ; Such as with conqueft have rewarded Triumphant viftors' happy cares ; Such as ftory has recorded Sacred to Naflau's long renown, For countries fav'd, and battles won.
עמוד 111 - tis his fancy to run ; At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come: No matter what beauties I saw in my way; They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
עמוד 25 - tis thus complain, Since you appear'd upon the plain; You are the cause of all my care: Your eyes ten thousand dangers dart: Ten thousand torments vex my heart: I love, and I despair.
עמוד 111 - ... tis his fancy to run, At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me.
עמוד 111 - Chloe, and what I write, shows The difference there is betwixt nature and art: I court others in verse; but I love thee in prose: And they have my whimsies; but thou hast my heart.
עמוד 10 - Cheeks confest ; Thou hast, my Dear, undoubted Right To triumph o'er this destin'd Breast. My Reason bends to what thy Eyes ordain ; For I was born to Love, and Thou to Reign. II. But would You meanly thus rely On Power, You know I must Obey ? Exert a Legal Tyranny...
עמוד 376 - With honour take her back again ? From hence I logically gather, The woman cannot live with either. Now, I have two right...
עמוד 358 - Note here, Lucretius dares to teach (As all our youth may learn from Creech) That eyes were made but could not view, Nor hands embrace, nor feet pursue, But heedless Nature did produce The members first, and then the use : What each must act was yet unknown, Till all is mov'd by Chance alone.