The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, כרך 24Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 92
עמוד 20
... vain , Scorns the sheep can love the swain . ' Artless deed and simple dress Mark the chosen shepherdess ; Thoughts by decency controll'd , Well conceiv'd , and freely told : ' Sense , that shuns each conscious air , Wit 20 A ...
... vain , Scorns the sheep can love the swain . ' Artless deed and simple dress Mark the chosen shepherdess ; Thoughts by decency controll'd , Well conceiv'd , and freely told : ' Sense , that shuns each conscious air , Wit 20 A ...
עמוד 21
... vain : Pleasure ending soon in pain ; Anguish lightly gilded o'er : Close thy wish , and seek no more . ' And now , passing through a wicket , the path winds up the back part of a circular green hill , discovering little of the country ...
... vain : Pleasure ending soon in pain ; Anguish lightly gilded o'er : Close thy wish , and seek no more . ' And now , passing through a wicket , the path winds up the back part of a circular green hill , discovering little of the country ...
עמוד 35
... . " Flow , gentle Stream ! nor let the vain Thy small unsullied stores disdain ; Nor let the pensive sage repine , Whose latent course resembles thine . " The view from it is a calm tranquil scene of A DESCRIPTION OF THE LEASOWES . 35.
... . " Flow , gentle Stream ! nor let the vain Thy small unsullied stores disdain ; Nor let the pensive sage repine , Whose latent course resembles thine . " The view from it is a calm tranquil scene of A DESCRIPTION OF THE LEASOWES . 35.
עמוד 38
... vain alcoves . ' Tis bashful Beauty ever twines The most coercive chain ; ' Tis she that sovereign rule declines , Who best deserves to reign . ' * EXPLANATION . Venus half - retired ; A PREFATORY ESSAY ON ELEGY . BY WILLIAM SHENSTONE ...
... vain alcoves . ' Tis bashful Beauty ever twines The most coercive chain ; ' Tis she that sovereign rule declines , Who best deserves to reign . ' * EXPLANATION . Venus half - retired ; A PREFATORY ESSAY ON ELEGY . BY WILLIAM SHENSTONE ...
עמוד 48
... vain ! His be the palm , who , guiltless of disguise , Contemns the power , the dull resource , to feign ! Still may the mourner , lavish of his tears , For lucre's venal meed invite my scorn ! Still may the bard , dissembling doubts ...
... vain ! His be the palm , who , guiltless of disguise , Contemns the power , the dull resource , to feign ! Still may the mourner , lavish of his tears , For lucre's venal meed invite my scorn ! Still may the bard , dissembling doubts ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
adieu bard beauty Beauty mourns beneath bless'd bliss bloom boast bosom bow'r breast breathe bright Carthage charms Clent Hill crown'd Damon dear Delia delight display'd e'er Elegy envy ev'n fair faithless fame Fancy fate favour'd fire flame flow flowers fond form'd genius gentle glow gold grace ground grove haunts heart Heaven hill JAMES CAWTHORN lawn Leasowes lov'd lyre Lyttelton maid mind mournful Muse Muse's Naiad native ne'er nymph o'er pain paint passion peace pensive plain pleas'd pleasure polish'd pomp pow'r praise pride rill rose rove rural sacred scene scorn seat shade shepherd shine shore Shropshire shrubs shun sigh silvan skies smile soft song soul stream swain sweet taste tear tender thee thine thou toils train trees Twas vale virtue ween weep wild WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind XXIV youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 289 - Whilom a twig of small regard to see, Though now so wide its waving branches flow ; And work the simple vassals mickle...
עמוד 5 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
עמוד 181 - I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear, She will say
עמוד 289 - Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name : Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; They grieven sore in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame : And oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair, or task unconn'd, are sorely shent.
עמוד 129 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
עמוד 191 - Dawson, monarch of my heart, Think not thy death shall end our loves, For thou and I will never part. Yet might sweet mercy find a place, And bring relief to Jemmy's woes, O GEORGE, without a prayer for thee My orisons should never close.
עמוד 185 - The sweets of a dew-sprinkled rose, The sound of a murmuring stream, The peace which from solitude flows, Henceforth shall be Corydon's theme. High transports are shown to the sight, But...
עמוד 181 - Are the groves and the valleys as gay, And the shepherds as gentle as ours ? The groves may perhaps be as fair...
עמוד 289 - So doth it wanton birds of peace bereave, Of sport, of song, of pleasure, of repast; They start, they stare, they wheel, they look aghast...
עמוד 182 - I show you the charms of my love, She is fairer than you can believe. With her mien she enamours the brave; With her wit she engages the free; With her modesty pleases the grave; She is ev'ry way pleasing to me.