The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, כרך 1W. Strahan, 1779 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 69
עמוד
... , ye have fixed the place of his birth to Winbourn Minster , which feems to be intitled to claim the honour of having given birth to this excellent poet . thence , thence , and employed him for fome time in the viir THE LIFE OF.
... , ye have fixed the place of his birth to Winbourn Minster , which feems to be intitled to claim the honour of having given birth to this excellent poet . thence , thence , and employed him for fome time in the viir THE LIFE OF.
עמוד
... fome of his time to claffical learning , and fortunately the bent of his ftudies and the force of his genius were known to fome who used to frequent his uncle's houfe . An accident , we are told , occafioned his being released from his ...
... fome of his time to claffical learning , and fortunately the bent of his ftudies and the force of his genius were known to fome who used to frequent his uncle's houfe . An accident , we are told , occafioned his being released from his ...
עמוד
... fome months after the acceffion of George the Firft , and was fuc ceeded by the Earl of Stair , who by orders from home took poffeffion of all his papers . A diffi- culty in obtaining his arrears obliged him to continue at Paris fome ...
... fome months after the acceffion of George the Firft , and was fuc ceeded by the Earl of Stair , who by orders from home took poffeffion of all his papers . A diffi- culty in obtaining his arrears obliged him to continue at Paris fome ...
עמוד
... fome amends for this humour , he left them books to the value of 2001. and his picture by La Belle , which had been a prefent to him from Lewis XIV . + Mr. Pope faid " that the Alma of Prior was the only " work that ( abating it's ...
... fome amends for this humour , he left them books to the value of 2001. and his picture by La Belle , which had been a prefent to him from Lewis XIV . + Mr. Pope faid " that the Alma of Prior was the only " work that ( abating it's ...
עמוד
... fome of which must be confidered as doubtful ; and the second , The History of his own Time , compiled from his original manufcripts , which in the state it was published , cannot be deemed one of his productions . Many Poems are said ...
... fome of which must be confidered as doubtful ; and the second , The History of his own Time , compiled from his original manufcripts , which in the state it was published , cannot be deemed one of his productions . Many Poems are said ...
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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...