The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, כרך 1W. Strahan, 1779 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 94
עמוד 21
... She died 30 July , 1719. Her husband , Charles Earl Elizabeth , daughter of Baptift Noel , Viscount Camp- of Berkeley when Lord Durfley ) , had been envoy extra- ordinary and plenipotentiary to the States of Holland , from whence he ...
... She died 30 July , 1719. Her husband , Charles Earl Elizabeth , daughter of Baptift Noel , Viscount Camp- of Berkeley when Lord Durfley ) , had been envoy extra- ordinary and plenipotentiary to the States of Holland , from whence he ...
עמוד 23
... She deep will mark her new difgrace . A N D I. E. WHILE from our looks , fair nymph , you guess The fecret paffions of our mind ; My heavy eyes , you fay , confefs A heart to love and grief inclin'd . II . There needs , alas ! but ...
... She deep will mark her new difgrace . A N D I. E. WHILE from our looks , fair nymph , you guess The fecret paffions of our mind ; My heavy eyes , you fay , confefs A heart to love and grief inclin'd . II . There needs , alas ! but ...
עמוד 25
... she too kind concern expreft , And afk'd the reafon of his woe : She ask'd , but with an air and mien , That made it easily foreseen , She fear'd too much to know . The fhepherd rais'd his mournful head ; And will you pardon me , he ...
... she too kind concern expreft , And afk'd the reafon of his woe : She ask'd , but with an air and mien , That made it easily foreseen , She fear'd too much to know . The fhepherd rais'd his mournful head ; And will you pardon me , he ...
עמוד 32
... is the general sub . ject of both poems , and many images of the latter are tranf- planted into the former . " Note to Eunomus , 1774 , vol . iv . P. 108 . 1 With fecret joy I heard her fay , That she With 31 POEMS OF.
... is the general sub . ject of both poems , and many images of the latter are tranf- planted into the former . " Note to Eunomus , 1774 , vol . iv . P. 108 . 1 With fecret joy I heard her fay , That she With 31 POEMS OF.
עמוד 33
... She turns her head , and wings her flight ; And trembling vows , fhe ' ll ne'er again Approach the fhore , or view the main . Once more at least look back , faid I ; Thyfelf in that large glass defcry : When thou art in good - humour ...
... She turns her head , and wings her flight ; And trembling vows , fhe ' ll ne'er again Approach the fhore , or view the main . Once more at least look back , faid I ; Thyfelf in that large glass defcry : When thou art in good - humour ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 121 - 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 107 - Pointing, the lovely moralist said : See, friend, in some few fleeting hours, See yonder, what a change is made. Ah me! the blooming pride of May, And that of beauty are but one: At morn both...
עמוד 385 - To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.
עמוד 339 - So whilst our mind its knowledge would improve, (Its feeble eye intent on things above) High as we may, we lift our reason up, By Faith directed, and confirm'd by Hope: Yet are we able only to survey Dawnings of beams, and promises of day.
עמוד iv - He was the finest gentleman in the voluptuous court of Charles II., and in the gloomy one of King William. He had as much wit as his first master, or his contemporaries Buckingham and Rochester, without the royal want of feeling, the Duke's want of principles, or the Earl's want of thought. The latter said with astonishment, " that he did not know how it was, but Lord Dorset might do anything, and yet was never to blame.
עמוד 209 - Marlborough when to fight. Or if it be his fate to meet With folks who have more wealth than wit. He loves cheap port, and double bub, And settles in the Humdrum Club...
עמוד iv - William. He had as much wit as his first master, or his contemporaries, Buckingham and Rochester ; without the royal want of feeling, the Duke's want of principles, or the Earl's want of thought. The latter said with astonishment, ' That he did not know how it was, but Lord Dorset might do any thing, and yet was never to blame...
עמוד 113 - ... 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 xiii - ... of his breeding, and the knowledge and practice of what was decent and magnificent ; that he could only be rivalled in thefe qualifications by one great man, who has fince held the fame ftafF.
עמוד 386 - In China, Dampier's Travels tell ye, (Look in his index for Pagelli) Soon as the British ships unmoor, And jolly longboat rows to shore, Down come the nobles of the land, Each brings his daughter in his hand...