The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, כרך 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 8
... once hast been , O gentle shade ! accept this humble verse , Amidst the meaner honours of thy hearse . How does thy Phocyas warm Britannia's youth , In arms to glory , and in love to truth ! Oh ! if the Muse of future aught presage ...
... once hast been , O gentle shade ! accept this humble verse , Amidst the meaner honours of thy hearse . How does thy Phocyas warm Britannia's youth , In arms to glory , and in love to truth ! Oh ! if the Muse of future aught presage ...
עמוד 13
... once more embark'd , propitious gales Blow fresh from shore , and fill his hollow sails . As when the golden god , that rules the day , Drives down his flaming chariot to the sea , And leaves the nations here involv'd in night , To ...
... once more embark'd , propitious gales Blow fresh from shore , and fill his hollow sails . As when the golden god , that rules the day , Drives down his flaming chariot to the sea , And leaves the nations here involv'd in night , To ...
עמוד 14
... once did fly , Resolv'd t'o'ercome , or resolute to die , Thro ' trampled heaps of slain they rush to victory . Earth trembles at the charge ; Death , Blood , and Insatiate riot all the murderous day ; Nor night itself their fury can ...
... once did fly , Resolv'd t'o'ercome , or resolute to die , Thro ' trampled heaps of slain they rush to victory . Earth trembles at the charge ; Death , Blood , and Insatiate riot all the murderous day ; Nor night itself their fury can ...
עמוד 17
... once again review The numerous worthies of the line . See , like immortals , how they shine ! Each life a history alone ! And last , to crown the great design , Look forward , and behold them all in one ' Look , but spare thy fruitless ...
... once again review The numerous worthies of the line . See , like immortals , how they shine ! Each life a history alone ! And last , to crown the great design , Look forward , and behold them all in one ' Look , but spare thy fruitless ...
עמוד 18
... once he saw , his honour'd banks around ? Scarce are their silent ruins found ; But , in th ' ensuing age , Trampled into common ground , [ ing rage . Will hide the horrid monuments of Gaul's destroy- All Europe too had shar'd this ...
... once he saw , his honour'd banks around ? Scarce are their silent ruins found ; But , in th ' ensuing age , Trampled into common ground , [ ing rage . Will hide the horrid monuments of Gaul's destroy- All Europe too had shar'd this ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Apollo arms beauteous beauty Behold Belgia bless blest breast bright Cæsar charms Columbo confest crown'd Cupid darts dear death delight e'er Earth Epicurus ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flow Ganymede goddess gods grace grief grove hand happy hast hear heart Heaven hero honour Jove kind king labour light live lord lov'd Lucretius lyre maid MATTHEW PRIOR mighty mind mourn Muse Namur Nature's ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er Ovid pain passion peace Peneus Phoebus Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet Pothinus praise pride queen rage rais'd reign rise sacred shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song soul swain sweet tears tell thee things thou thought toil twas Venus verse vex'd Virg virtue weep Whilst winds wise wretched wyll youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 262 - And terror on my aching s'ight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
עמוד 42 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
עמוד 509 - From nature too I take my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. Can grave and formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl despise? My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much, must talk in vain.
עמוד 430 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera.
עמוד 213 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
עמוד 430 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life written, books of VOL
עמוד 262 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
עמוד 430 - Its reception is thus recorded in the notes to the "Dunciad":— "This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixty-three days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time; at Bath and Bristol fifty, etc.
עמוד 43 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise; See the snakes that they rear. How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
עמוד 319 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...