Letters to a Young Lady on a Course of English PoetryJ. Johnson, 1806 - 297 עמודים Treats mainly of 17th and 18th century poets. |
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עמוד 71 - This day, black Omens threat the brightest Fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall.
עמוד 40 - Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
עמוד 62 - Yet should some neighbour feel a pain, Just in the parts where I complain, How many a message would he send ! What hearty prayers that I should mend...
עמוד 71 - Essences exhale ; To draw fresh Colours from the vernal Flow'rs ; To steal from Rainbows ere they drop in Show'rs A brighter Wash ; to curl their waving Hairs, Assist their Blushes, and inspire their Airs ; Nay oft, in Dreams, Invention we bestow, To change a Flounce, or add a Furbelow.
עמוד 203 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
עמוד 175 - ... of old to fame. None but his brethren he, and sisters, knew, whom the kind youth preferr'd to me; and ev'n in that we did agree; for much above myself I lov'd them, too.
עמוד 1 - But hail, ye mighty masters of the lay, Nature's true sons, the friends of man and truth! Whose song, sublimely sweet, serenely gay, Amused my childhood, and inform'd my youth.
עמוד 47 - And borne by winds the scatt'ring sparks arise; From beam to beam the fierce contagion spreads; The spiry flames now lift aloft their heads, Through the burst sash a blazing deluge pours, And splitting tiles descend in rattling show'rs. 360 Now with thick crowds th...
עמוד 96 - Fear'd her stern frown, and she was queen o' the woods. What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield, That wise Minerva wore, unconquer'd virgin, Wherewith she freez'd her foes to congeal'd stone, But rigid looks of chaste austerity...
עמוד 28 - More than a mile immersed within the wood, At once the wind was laid; the whispering sound Was dumb; a rising earthquake...