The Poet: A PoemW. Flexney, 1773 - 47 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 6
עמוד 3
... calm investigation given To reconcile to man the ways of Heaven ; To teach us to fubdue the zealot's fire , Nor rafhly to deteft , nor to admire Serenely to reject , and to approve , i Give vice our pity , virtue all our love ; By ...
... calm investigation given To reconcile to man the ways of Heaven ; To teach us to fubdue the zealot's fire , Nor rafhly to deteft , nor to admire Serenely to reject , and to approve , i Give vice our pity , virtue all our love ; By ...
עמוד 5
... calm defign directs impetuous fire . Gay fiction now adorns important truth ; He checks the intemperate fallies of his youth ; With eye severe the brilliant line furveys , Conscious that poets must not snatch the bays ; By the flow ...
... calm defign directs impetuous fire . Gay fiction now adorns important truth ; He checks the intemperate fallies of his youth ; With eye severe the brilliant line furveys , Conscious that poets must not snatch the bays ; By the flow ...
עמוד 7
... calm of rural scenes repair : Oft may I ftray through Peckham's winding shades , Sweet haunt of poets , and the tuneful maids ; In queft of imagery mount Haly - Hill , Where varied views the eye , and fancy fill ; Where Where commerce ...
... calm of rural scenes repair : Oft may I ftray through Peckham's winding shades , Sweet haunt of poets , and the tuneful maids ; In queft of imagery mount Haly - Hill , Where varied views the eye , and fancy fill ; Where Where commerce ...
עמוד 19
... calm , eternal fabbath doomed to keep . Emerging from the rubbish , you shall rise , And gain ambition's well - difputed prize ; Flourish when diftant centuries are past , And charm as long as taste , and language last . Through time's ...
... calm , eternal fabbath doomed to keep . Emerging from the rubbish , you shall rise , And gain ambition's well - difputed prize ; Flourish when diftant centuries are past , And charm as long as taste , and language last . Through time's ...
עמוד 41
... calm detains them , or a tempeft drives . On fancy too intent , their ardent youth Forgets a fimple , but important truth- That gold , with magic power , our life befriends , Promotes ignoble , or exalted ends ; Gives HARLEY's babble ...
... calm detains them , or a tempeft drives . On fancy too intent , their ardent youth Forgets a fimple , but important truth- That gold , with magic power , our life befriends , Promotes ignoble , or exalted ends ; Gives HARLEY's babble ...
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...