The Poetical Works of Matthew PriorJ. Nichol, 1858 - 475 עמודים |
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עמוד xiii
... bear no proportion to the mass of his poetry ; and that , as compositions , they are too clever and cha- racteristic to be omitted . His " Occasional Poems " are of unequal merit . His love verses are often graceful and often very ...
... bear no proportion to the mass of his poetry ; and that , as compositions , they are too clever and cha- racteristic to be omitted . His " Occasional Poems " are of unequal merit . His love verses are often graceful and often very ...
עמוד 16
... bear So vast a weight as that of love : If thou canst wish to make my flames endure , Thine must be very fierce , and very pure . 7 Haste , Celia , haste , while youth invites , Obey kind Cupid's present voice ; Fill every sense with ...
... bear So vast a weight as that of love : If thou canst wish to make my flames endure , Thine must be very fierce , and very pure . 7 Haste , Celia , haste , while youth invites , Obey kind Cupid's present voice ; Fill every sense with ...
עמוד 18
... bear might soon be made a wit ; And that for any thing in nature , Pigs might squeak love - odes , dogs bark satire . Memnon , though stone , was counted vocal ; But ' twas the God , meanwhile , that spoke all . Rome oft has heard a ...
... bear might soon be made a wit ; And that for any thing in nature , Pigs might squeak love - odes , dogs bark satire . Memnon , though stone , was counted vocal ; But ' twas the God , meanwhile , that spoke all . Rome oft has heard a ...
עמוד 25
... bear me far from what I love ! Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain , From slighted vows , and cold disdain ! Be gentle , and in pity choose To wish the wildest tempests loose : That , thrown again upon the ...
... bear me far from what I love ! Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain , From slighted vows , and cold disdain ! Be gentle , and in pity choose To wish the wildest tempests loose : That , thrown again upon the ...
עמוד 41
... bear , Eludes the planter's miserable care ; While blooming Love assures us golden fruit , Some inborn poison taints the secret root ; 73 90 100 Soon fall the flowers of joy ; soon seeds of hatred shoot . Say , shepherd , say , are ...
... bear , Eludes the planter's miserable care ; While blooming Love assures us golden fruit , Some inborn poison taints the secret root ; 73 90 100 Soon fall the flowers of joy ; soon seeds of hatred shoot . Say , shepherd , say , are ...
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Abra Alma Apollo arms beauty Belgia bless breast breath charms Cloe Columbo command confessed crowned cruel cruel doubt Cupid dame Danube dart dear death delight Derry Dick dread e'er earth Emma Emma's fair fame fate favour fear flame George Rooke glorious goddess grace grief hand happy hast heart Heaven hero honour hope Jove king labour light live look Lord Lucretius lyre maid master MATTHEW PRIOR mighty mind mourn Muse Namur ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er obey pain passion peace plain pleasure poet praise pride queen quoth rage reign rise sighs sing smiling song sorrow soul St John's College tears tell thee things thou thought throne toil triumph truth twas Venus verse virtue vows ween weep WESTMINSTER SCHOOL Whilst William wings wise wound wretched youth
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עמוד 294 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
עמוד 271 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
עמוד 84 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
עמוד 271 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever : nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
עמוד 271 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
עמוד 213 - And, finishing its act, exists no more : Thus in obedience to what heaven decrees, Knowledge shall fail, and prophecy shall cease ; But lasting Charity's more ample sway, Nor bound by time, nor subject to decay, In happy triumph shall for ever live, And endless good diffuse, and endless praise receive.
עמוד 271 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
עמוד 137 - Mov'd in the orb, pleas'd with the chimes, The foolish creature thinks he climbs: But here or there, turn wood or wire, He never gets two inches higher. So fares it with those merry blades, That frisk it under Pindus
עמוד 101 - Animula vagula, blandula, Hospes comesque corporis, Quae nunc abibis in loca? Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nee (ut soles) dabis joca...
עמוד 152 - Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea, While gentle zephyrs play in prosperous gales, And Fortune's favour fills the swelling sails, But would forsake the ship and make the shore, When the winds whistle and the tempests roar?