The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior |
מתוך הספר
עמוד ix
approaching at times the cruel, ranks with Alfred and Cromwell as one of the
three best and noblest kings of England— best and noblest, because to courage,
talent, and patriotism, they all added the fear of God, and a regard for His public ...
approaching at times the cruel, ranks with Alfred and Cromwell as one of the
three best and noblest kings of England— best and noblest, because to courage,
talent, and patriotism, they all added the fear of God, and a regard for His public ...
עמוד xiv
low an outlawed murderer wherever fear and guilt shall drive him, deserves no
imitation; and the experiment, by which Henry tries the lady's constancy, is such
as must end either in infamy to her or in disappointment to himself.” We suspect ...
low an outlawed murderer wherever fear and guilt shall drive him, deserves no
imitation; and the experiment, by which Henry tries the lady's constancy, is such
as must end either in infamy to her or in disappointment to himself.” We suspect ...
עמוד 7
This has obliged me, in my own defence, to look back upon some of those lighter
studies, which I ought long since to have quitted, and to publish an indifferent
collection of poems, for fear of being thought the author of a worse. Thus I beg ...
This has obliged me, in my own defence, to look back upon some of those lighter
studies, which I ought long since to have quitted, and to publish an indifferent
collection of poems, for fear of being thought the author of a worse. Thus I beg ...
עמוד 26
Clorinda came among the rest; And she too kind concern expressed, And asked
the reason of his woe: She asked, but with an air and mien, That made it easily
foreseen, She feared too much to know. The shepherd raised his mournful head;
...
Clorinda came among the rest; And she too kind concern expressed, And asked
the reason of his woe: She asked, but with an air and mien, That made it easily
foreseen, She feared too much to know. The shepherd raised his mournful head;
...
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לא מצאנו ביקורות במקומות הרגילים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
appear arms bear beauty bless breast bring called charms command dear death delight desire earth equal fair fame fate fear fire flame force future give grace grief hand happy hast head hear heart Heaven hero honour hope hour human kind king land laws leave light live look Lord lost maid matter mind nature ne'er never night o'er once pain passion peace plain play pleasure poet poor praise pride rage raise reason receive rest rise round rules sense sighs sing song soon sorrow soul speak stand sure tears tell thee things thou thought true truth turn verse virtue Whilst wise wish wound write young youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 292 - 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 269 - 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 83 - 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 269 - 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 269 - 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 211 - 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 269 - 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 135 - 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 99 - Animula vagula, blandula, Hospes comesque corporis, Quae nunc abibis in loca? Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nee (ut soles) dabis joca...
עמוד 150 - 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?
מידע ביבליוגרפי
| כותרת | The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior [Library edition of the British poets] |
| מאת | Matthew Prior, George Gilfillan |
| עורך | George Gilfillan |
| הוצאה | J. Nichol, 1858 |
| מקור מאת | אוניברסיטת הרווארד |
| דיגיטלי | 17 פברואר 2006 |
| אורך | 475 עמודים |
| ייצא ציטוט ביביליוגרפי | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |