The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, כרך 1W. Strahan, 1779 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 18
עמוד 2
... bofom of that boundless fea , Still finds its error lengthen with its way . III . With daring pride and infolent delight Your doubts refolv'd you boast , your labours crown'd ; And " EYPHKA ! your god , forfooth is found ...
... bofom of that boundless fea , Still finds its error lengthen with its way . III . With daring pride and infolent delight Your doubts refolv'd you boast , your labours crown'd ; And " EYPHKA ! your god , forfooth is found ...
עמוד 33
... bofom tear ; When the big lip , and wat'ry eye Tell me , the rifing storm is nigh ; " Tis then , thou art yon ' angry main , Deform'd by winds , and dafh'd by rain ; And the poor failor , that must try It's fury , labours less than I ...
... bofom tear ; When the big lip , and wat'ry eye Tell me , the rifing storm is nigh ; " Tis then , thou art yon ' angry main , Deform'd by winds , and dafh'd by rain ; And the poor failor , that must try It's fury , labours less than I ...
עמוד 45
... bofom rofe : But with no owner Beauty long will stay , Upon the wings of Time borne fwift away : Pafs but fome fleeting years , and these poor eyes , ( Where now without a boast fome luftre lies ) No No longer fhall their little honours ...
... bofom rofe : But with no owner Beauty long will stay , Upon the wings of Time borne fwift away : Pafs but fome fleeting years , and these poor eyes , ( Where now without a boast fome luftre lies ) No No longer fhall their little honours ...
עמוד 48
... disjoin ? From this dear bofom fhall I ne'er be torn ? Or you grow cold , refpectful , and forfworn ? And can you not for her you love do more , Than any youth for any nymph before ? } AN 0 A N D E PRESENTED TO THE KING , 48 POEMS OF.
... disjoin ? From this dear bofom fhall I ne'er be torn ? Or you grow cold , refpectful , and forfworn ? And can you not for her you love do more , Than any youth for any nymph before ? } AN 0 A N D E PRESENTED TO THE KING , 48 POEMS OF.
עמוד 51
... bofom torn : So much the fears for William's life , That Mary's fate she dare not mourn . XIII . Her beauty , in thy fofter half Bury'd and loft , fhe ought to grieve : But let her ftrength in thee be safe : And let her weep ; but let ...
... bofom torn : So much the fears for William's life , That Mary's fate she dare not mourn . XIII . Her beauty , in thy fofter half Bury'd and loft , fhe ought to grieve : But let her ftrength in thee be safe : And let her weep ; but let ...
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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...