The Poetical Works of Matthew PriorJ. Nichol, 1858 - 475 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 77
עמוד xv
... nature in it little inferior to Shakspeare , as in that exquisite line- - " When I called another , Abra came . " In no poem , and in no prose work , we believe , has so much justice ever been done to the character of Israel's " Grand ...
... nature in it little inferior to Shakspeare , as in that exquisite line- - " When I called another , Abra came . " In no poem , and in no prose work , we believe , has so much justice ever been done to the character of Israel's " Grand ...
עמוד 5
... nature is said , by a great author , to belong more particularly to the English than to any other nation , it may again be said , that it belonged more particularly to the late Earl of Dorset than to any other Englishman . A kind ...
... nature is said , by a great author , to belong more particularly to the English than to any other nation , it may again be said , that it belonged more particularly to the late Earl of Dorset than to any other Englishman . A kind ...
עמוד 6
Matthew Prior George Gilfillan. nature did not consent to it , without the greatest reluctance and difficulty . Let me give one instance of this amongst many . When , as Lord Chamber- lain , he was obliged to take the king's pension from ...
Matthew Prior George Gilfillan. nature did not consent to it , without the greatest reluctance and difficulty . Let me give one instance of this amongst many . When , as Lord Chamber- lain , he was obliged to take the king's pension from ...
עמוד 7
... nature ( the product of my severer studies ) at your Lordship's feet , I shall engage your more serious reflection : happy , if in all my endeavours I may contribute to your delight or to your instruction . I am , with all duty and ...
... nature ( the product of my severer studies ) at your Lordship's feet , I shall engage your more serious reflection : happy , if in all my endeavours I may contribute to your delight or to your instruction . I am , with all duty and ...
עמוד 11
... nature , and prescribe that will , Whose pregnant word did either ocean fill : Can tell us whence all beings are , and how they move and live . Through either ocean , foolish man ! That pregnant word sent forth again , Might to a world ...
... nature , and prescribe that will , Whose pregnant word did either ocean fill : Can tell us whence all beings are , and how they move and live . Through either ocean , foolish man ! That pregnant word sent forth again , Might to a world ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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
קטעים בולטים
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?