Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, כרך 4John Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1821 - 807 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 49
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... Song 178 The Garland ib . ... An English Padlock 180 A Song 183 The Female Phaeton The Despairing Shepherd VOL . IV . ib . 185 A Page An Ode 186 The Lady's Looking - Glass .
... Song 178 The Garland ib . ... An English Padlock 180 A Song 183 The Female Phaeton The Despairing Shepherd VOL . IV . ib . 185 A Page An Ode 186 The Lady's Looking - Glass .
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... Written by Mr. Green , under the name of Peter Drake , a fisherman of Brentford ............ The Sparrow and Diamond . A Song ......... 348 ............ 339 Printed by A. and R. Spottiswoode , Printers Street , CONTENTS .
... Written by Mr. Green , under the name of Peter Drake , a fisherman of Brentford ............ The Sparrow and Diamond . A Song ......... 348 ............ 339 Printed by A. and R. Spottiswoode , Printers Street , CONTENTS .
עמוד 3
... , which was not uncommon at that period . In the faculty of telling a story with ease and vivacity , he yields only to Swift , compared to whom his humour is occasionally strained and quaint . His songs and amatory B 2 PRIOR . 3.
... , which was not uncommon at that period . In the faculty of telling a story with ease and vivacity , he yields only to Swift , compared to whom his humour is occasionally strained and quaint . His songs and amatory B 2 PRIOR . 3.
עמוד 4
With Biographical and Critical Prefaces John Aikin. is occasionally strained and quaint . His songs and amatory pieces are generally elegant and clas- sical . The most popular of his serious compo- sitions are " Henry and Emma , " or the ...
With Biographical and Critical Prefaces John Aikin. is occasionally strained and quaint . His songs and amatory pieces are generally elegant and clas- sical . The most popular of his serious compo- sitions are " Henry and Emma , " or the ...
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... told their flame , And grac'd their choicest songs with Emma's name . In vain they combated , in vain they writ : Useless their strength , and impotent their wit . 1 Great Venus only must direct the dart , Which else HENRY AND EMMA .
... told their flame , And grac'd their choicest songs with Emma's name . In vain they combated , in vain they writ : Useless their strength , and impotent their wit . 1 Great Venus only must direct the dart , Which else HENRY AND EMMA .
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abra Alma Ambrose Philips arms Barnstaple beauty Beggar's Opera beneath Blouzelind bosom breast breath bright charms Cloacina crowd crown'd cruel doubt damsel death delight Derry destin'd Dick dread drest Earth Emma Emma's eyes fair fame fate fear flame flies forc'd Gay naturally goddess grace grief hand happy hast head heart Heaven heel I three honour hope JOHN GAY king labour lasses light link-boy LOBBIN CLOUT Lubberkin Lucretius lyre maid mind mourn Muse ne'er night Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er pain passion plain pleas'd pleasure praise pride quoth rage rais'd rise round rove shun sighs sing soft song sorrow soul Spleen streams street swain sweet tears tell thee thou thought throne toil tread turn me thrice verse vex'd VIRG vows ween whence whilst winds wings wise woods wretched youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 112 - 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 86 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
עמוד 253 - Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook.
עמוד 146 - 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 262 - And from the deep-mouth'd thunder flies: She starts, she stops, she pants for breath ; She hears the near advance of death; She doubles to mislead the hound, And measures back her mazy round, Till, fainting in the public way, Half dead with fear she gasping lay. What transport in her bosom grew, When first the Horse appear'd in view ! " Let me (says she) your back ascend, And owe my safety to a friend.
עמוד 145 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
עמוד 186 - Euphelia's toilet lay ; When Chloe noted her desire, That I should sing, that I should play. My lyre I tune, my voice I raise ; But with my numbers mix my sighs : And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise, I fix my soul on Chloe's eyes. Fair Chloe blushed : Euphelia frowned : I sung and gazed : I played and trembled : And Venus to the Loves around Remarked, how ill we all dissembled.
עמוד 263 - The Goat remarked her pulse was high, Her languid head, her heavy eye; "My back," says he, "may do you harm; The Sheep's at hand, and wool is warm.
עמוד 112 - I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
עמוד 111 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...