The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, כרך 1W. Strahan, 1779 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 23
עמוד
... 73 , 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.
... 73 , 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 xxiv
... poet by accident . I take this occafion to thank my good friend and school - fellow Mr. Dibben * , for his excellent verfion of the Carmen Seculare , though my gra- * Thomas Dibben , afterwards doctor of divinity , rector of Great ...
... poet by accident . I take this occafion to thank my good friend and school - fellow Mr. Dibben * , for his excellent verfion of the Carmen Seculare , though my gra- * Thomas Dibben , afterwards doctor of divinity , rector of Great ...
עמוד 7
... Poet tell : Your art no other art can speak ; and you , To show how well you play , must play anew : * Your mufick's pow'r your mufick muft disclose ; For what light is , ' tis only light that fhows . Strange force of harmony , that ...
... Poet tell : Your art no other art can speak ; and you , To show how well you play , must play anew : * Your mufick's pow'r your mufick muft disclose ; For what light is , ' tis only light that fhows . Strange force of harmony , that ...
עמוד 15
... poet ; but The thefis , vice - verfà put , Should Hebrew - wise be understood ; And means , the Poet makes the God . Ægyptian gard'ners thus are faid to Have fet the leeks they after pray'd to ; And Romish bakers praise the deity They ...
... poet ; but The thefis , vice - verfà put , Should Hebrew - wise be understood ; And means , the Poet makes the God . Ægyptian gard'ners thus are faid to Have fet the leeks they after pray'd to ; And Romish bakers praise the deity They ...
עמוד 32
... Poet and his Mufe ( as it may be infcribed ) of Mofchus . CAPRICE 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 ...
... Poet and his Mufe ( as it may be infcribed ) of Mofchus . CAPRICE 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 ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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...