The Poetical Works of Matthew PriorJ. Nichol, 1858 - 475 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
עמוד xx
... kind XX . Phillis , give this 460 humour over 469 • VII . Phillis , this pious talk give o'er . XXI . Haste , my Nannette , 461 my lovely maid 469 VIII . Still , Dorinda , I adore IX . Is it , O love , thy want 461 XXII . Since by ill ...
... kind XX . Phillis , give this 460 humour over 469 • VII . Phillis , this pious talk give o'er . XXI . Haste , my Nannette , 461 my lovely maid 469 VIII . Still , Dorinda , I adore IX . Is it , O love , thy want 461 XXII . Since by ill ...
עמוד 2
... justly be applied to him , which Persius gives of the best writer in this kind , that ever lived : 1 See Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poesie . Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit , et admissus 2 PRIOR'S POETICAL WORKS .
... justly be applied to him , which Persius gives of the best writer in this kind , that ever lived : 1 See Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poesie . Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit , et admissus 2 PRIOR'S POETICAL WORKS .
עמוד 5
... kind husband he was , without fondness ; and an indulgent father , with- out partiality ; so extraordinary good a master , that this quality ought indeed to have been numbered among his defects ; for he was often served worse than ...
... kind husband he was , without fondness ; and an indulgent father , with- out partiality ; so extraordinary good a master , that this quality ought indeed to have been numbered among his defects ; for he was often served worse than ...
עמוד 7
... kind of garland of good - will . If any verses of my writing should appear in print , under another name and patronage , than that of an Earl of Dorset , people might suspect them not to be genuine . I have attained my present end , if ...
... kind of garland of good - will . If any verses of my writing should appear in print , under another name and patronage , than that of an Earl of Dorset , people might suspect them not to be genuine . I have attained my present end , if ...
עמוד 8
... kind , in which the softness of her sex , and the fineness of her genius , conspire to give her a very distinguishing character . POSTSCRIPT . I must help my preface by a postscript , to tell the reader , that there are ten years ...
... kind , in which the softness of her sex , and the fineness of her genius , conspire to give her a very distinguishing character . POSTSCRIPT . I must help my preface by a postscript , to tell the reader , that there are ten years ...
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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
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?