The Poet: A PoemW. Flexney, 1773 - 47 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 11
עמוד 9
... strain , When fouls inferiour only live to pain ; When a dire group of dark ideas meet , The gloomy day , the catchpole , and the Fleet . Fancy to him his want of wealth supplies , Brings her gay objects of a thousand dyes : Poffeffing ...
... strain , When fouls inferiour only live to pain ; When a dire group of dark ideas meet , The gloomy day , the catchpole , and the Fleet . Fancy to him his want of wealth supplies , Brings her gay objects of a thousand dyes : Poffeffing ...
עמוד 15
... strain , Nor would he write his trash for all his gain ; By different models forms his nervous line , By Pope the great , and Dryden the divine , France , whofe gay follies are our general aim , Aped by each fop , and every courtly dame ...
... strain , Nor would he write his trash for all his gain ; By different models forms his nervous line , By Pope the great , and Dryden the divine , France , whofe gay follies are our general aim , Aped by each fop , and every courtly dame ...
עמוד 22
... strain ; Then opportunely all his ills redress , Nor fuffer him to fink by long distress ; Give not humanity too much to bear ; . All characters are levelled by defpair . The bard , against grim want no longer proof ( His robes turn ...
... strain ; Then opportunely all his ills redress , Nor fuffer him to fink by long distress ; Give not humanity too much to bear ; . All characters are levelled by defpair . The bard , against grim want no longer proof ( His robes turn ...
עמוד 26
... strains they've fung ; Not a Dutch commentator's art to fhow , Which pedants , had they sense , would blush to know . The bard , defpifing literary toys , Each paper - edifice of bearded boys , Studies the ancients with fuperiour views ...
... strains they've fung ; Not a Dutch commentator's art to fhow , Which pedants , had they sense , would blush to know . The bard , defpifing literary toys , Each paper - edifice of bearded boys , Studies the ancients with fuperiour views ...
עמוד 30
... strain ; With the dread steel it lay beneath his head , Each Pallas guardian of the hero's bed . Divine humanity was all his own , As bright his candour as his ardour fhone . Witness his feelings when Darius bled , The pomp funereal ...
... strain ; With the dread steel it lay beneath his head , Each Pallas guardian of the hero's bed . Divine humanity was all his own , As bright his candour as his ardour fhone . Witness his feelings when Darius bled , The pomp funereal ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
admire Againſt applauſe ardent bard blifs bliſs bofom bower breaſt breath brighteſt calm cauſe charms Condemned controul courſe Curfe deeds diſdain diſplay divine dull Engliſh envy fame fancy fancy's fate fcene feel feeming fentiment fhame fhow filver fimple fire firſt flame flave flow fmile focial fome fometimes fons fools footh fortune foul ftate ftill fublimated fuffer furveys genius gives gloomy day glory glory's greatneſs grofs heart heaven hour houſe human kind immortal inſpired juft kings laſt laws live luftre maid mankind mind moral mufes Muft muſe muſt nature's ne'er nymph o'er Paffion pain penfive phlegm pleaſure poet's Poets praiſe prepofterous profe rafhly raiſed rapture renown rouze ſcenes ſee ſelfiſh Shakeſpeare Shakeſpeare's ſhould ſhow ſome ſtar ſtate ſtore ſtrain ſtream ſtrong ſweets taſte theme theſe thofe thoſe thought trifling truth Twill verfe verſe virtue vulgar warm whofe Whoſe ye Men
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 31 - Heroes are much the fame, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole ftrange purpofe of their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! . , "Not one looks backward, onward ftill he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nofc.
עמוד 12 - WANDERER, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.
עמוד 35 - Sed quando munitam figulis intraverat urbem, &c. and which Mr. S. presumes to be correct, seems to prove that this surprising genius is quite as great a master of Latin prosody as of English. The last poem is the rhapsody of a hero...
עמוד 27 - Better, he thinks, deferves the lyric bays Than Pindar, for his Greek, and age renowned, Now in the...
עמוד 39 - Whole fermons recommend his generous deeds; Who urges morals, and relaxes creeds; Who makes the...