The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, כרך 1W. Strahan, 1779 |
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עמוד viii
... fure ( as he expreffed it ) that my Lord Dorfet would not rehearse upon him again . If we wanted foreign teftimony , La Fontaine and St. Evremont have acknow- ledged , that he was a perfect mafter of the beau- ty and fineness of their ...
... fure ( as he expreffed it ) that my Lord Dorfet would not rehearse upon him again . If we wanted foreign teftimony , La Fontaine and St. Evremont have acknow- ledged , that he was a perfect mafter of the beau- ty and fineness of their ...
עמוד xv
... fure to wound ; but they were fure too to hit none , but those whose follies gave him very fair aim . And when he allowed no quarter ; he had certainly been provoked by more than common error : by men's tedious and circumftantial ...
... fure to wound ; but they were fure too to hit none , but those whose follies gave him very fair aim . And when he allowed no quarter ; he had certainly been provoked by more than common error : by men's tedious and circumftantial ...
עמוד xvii
... fure of being rewarded for it . made His table was one of the last , that gave us an example of the old house - keeping of an English nobleman . A freedom reigned at it , which every one of his guests think himself at home and an ...
... fure of being rewarded for it . made His table was one of the last , that gave us an example of the old house - keeping of an English nobleman . A freedom reigned at it , which every one of his guests think himself at home and an ...
עמוד 40
... fure , Contemns the wreath too long delay'd ; And , arm'd with more immediate pow'r , Calls cruel filence to her aid . VII . Deeper to wound , fhe fhuns the fight : She drops her arms , to gain the field : Secures her conqueft by her ...
... fure , Contemns the wreath too long delay'd ; And , arm'd with more immediate pow'r , Calls cruel filence to her aid . VII . Deeper to wound , fhe fhuns the fight : She drops her arms , to gain the field : Secures her conqueft by her ...
עמוד 45
... fure I am , thou wouldst not change this hour For all the white ones , Fate has in it's pow'r.- Yet thus belov'd , thus loving to excefs , Yet thus receiving and returning blifs , In this great moment , in this golden now , When ev'ry ...
... fure I am , thou wouldst not change this hour For all the white ones , Fate has in it's pow'r.- Yet thus belov'd , thus loving to excefs , Yet thus receiving and returning blifs , In this great moment , in this golden now , When ev'ry ...
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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...