A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Swift. Thompson. Watts. Hamilton. A. Philips. G. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. HarteJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 84
עמוד ix
... Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin , the best preferment the ministry would venture to give him . " That ministry , " fays Dr. Johnson , " was , in a great degree , fup- ported by the clergy , who were not yet reconciled to the author of ...
... Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin , the best preferment the ministry would venture to give him . " That ministry , " fays Dr. Johnson , " was , in a great degree , fup- ported by the clergy , who were not yet reconciled to the author of ...
עמוד x
... Dean . His first design feems to have been to break off the connection in the politeft manner poffible . To foften the harsh- nefs of a refufal of her hand , the greatest of mortifications to a woman , young , beautiful , and pof ...
... Dean . His first design feems to have been to break off the connection in the politeft manner poffible . To foften the harsh- nefs of a refufal of her hand , the greatest of mortifications to a woman , young , beautiful , and pof ...
עמוד xiii
... Dean , given to him by way of pre - eminence , as it were by common confent ; and when the Dean was mentioned , it always carried with it the idea of the first and greatest man in the kingdom . In a variety of publications , he laid ...
... Dean , given to him by way of pre - eminence , as it were by common confent ; and when the Dean was mentioned , it always carried with it the idea of the first and greatest man in the kingdom . In a variety of publications , he laid ...
עמוד xv
... Dean kept company with many of the fair fex , but they were rather his amusement than his admiration ; he trified away many hours in their converfation , he filled many pages in their Fraife , and , by the powers of his head , he gained ...
... Dean kept company with many of the fair fex , but they were rather his amusement than his admiration ; he trified away many hours in their converfation , he filled many pages in their Fraife , and , by the powers of his head , he gained ...
עמוד xvi
... Dean he was very attentive . He managed the revenues of his church with exact economy ; and it is faid by Delany , that more money was , under his direction , laid out in repairs than had ever been in the fame time fince its first ...
... Dean he was very attentive . He managed the revenues of his church with exact economy ; and it is faid by Delany , that more money was , under his direction , laid out in repairs than had ever been in the fame time fince its first ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 152 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
עמוד 227 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
עמוד 200 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
עמוד 308 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
עמוד 417 - Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And rais'd such tumults in my breast ; For while I gaz'd, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost : My bosom glow'd ; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
עמוד 532 - O thou, whose spirit most possest The sacred seat of Shakspeare's breast! By all that from thy prophet broke. In thy divine emotions spoke ; Hither again thy fury deal, Teach me but once like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee ! ODE TO SIMPLICITY.
עמוד 537 - And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
עמוד 150 - As Rochefoucault his Maxims drew From Nature, I believe them true ; They argue no corrupted mind In him ; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast, ' In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends, While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
עמוד 234 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
עמוד 10 - Then stepp'd aside to fetch them drink, Fill'da large jug up to the brink, And saw it fairly twice go round ; Yet (what is wonderful !) they found, 'Twas still replenish'd to the top, As if they ne'er had touch'da drop.