The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, כרך 1W. Strahan, 1779 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 51
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 v
... honour to whisper , but I did not think it good manners to listen . ' When he was dying , Congreve , who had " been to vifit him , being asked how he had left him , re- plied , ‹ faith , he flabbers more wit than other people do " in ...
... honour to whisper , but I did not think it good manners to listen . ' When he was dying , Congreve , who had " been to vifit him , being asked how he had left him , re- plied , ‹ faith , he flabbers more wit than other people do " in ...
עמוד vii
... honour to confult him in the foftnefs and harmony of his verfe and Dr. Sprat , in the delicacy and turn his profe . Dryden determines by him , * under the character of Eugenius , as to the laws See Dryden's Effay on Dramatick Poefie ...
... honour to confult him in the foftnefs and harmony of his verfe and Dr. Sprat , in the delicacy and turn his profe . Dryden determines by him , * under the character of Eugenius , as to the laws See Dryden's Effay on Dramatick Poefie ...
עמוד xiii
... honours he received from his fove- reign ( and indeed they were the greatest which a fubject could receive ) , were , that he was made knight of the garter , and conftituted one of the regents of the kingdom , during his majesty's ...
... honours he received from his fove- reign ( and indeed they were the greatest which a fubject could receive ) , were , that he was made knight of the garter , and conftituted one of the regents of the kingdom , during his majesty's ...
עמוד xvii
... honour to fit at table with him . In his dealings with others ; his care and ex- actness that every man should have his due , was fuch , that you would think he had never seen a court : the politeness and civility with which this ...
... honour to fit at table with him . In his dealings with others ; his care and ex- actness that every man should have his due , was fuch , that you would think he had never seen a court : the politeness and civility with which this ...
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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...