Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].J. W. Parker & Son, 1853 - 184 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 28
עמוד 24
... grief , for our ill - judging thought Hardly enjoys the pleasurable taste , Or deems it not sincere , or fears it cannot last . With wishes rais'd , with jealousies oppress'd , ( Alternate tyrants of the human breast , ) By one great ...
... grief , for our ill - judging thought Hardly enjoys the pleasurable taste , Or deems it not sincere , or fears it cannot last . With wishes rais'd , with jealousies oppress'd , ( Alternate tyrants of the human breast , ) By one great ...
עמוד 26
... grief does real sorrow move In the afflicted fair ; adown her cheek Trickling the genuine tears their current break ; Attentive stood the mournful nymph : the man Broke silence first : the tale alternate ran . Henry . Sincere , O tell ...
... grief does real sorrow move In the afflicted fair ; adown her cheek Trickling the genuine tears their current break ; Attentive stood the mournful nymph : the man Broke silence first : the tale alternate ran . Henry . Sincere , O tell ...
עמוד 27
... grief , and care , His complement of stores , and total war . O ! cease then coldly to suspect my love , And let my deed at least my faith approve . Alas ! no youth shall my endearments share , Nor day nor night shall interrupt my care ...
... grief , and care , His complement of stores , and total war . O ! cease then coldly to suspect my love , And let my deed at least my faith approve . Alas ! no youth shall my endearments share , Nor day nor night shall interrupt my care ...
עמוד 32
... grief of heart ! that our unhappy fates Force thee to suffer what thy honour hates : Mix thee amongst the bad ; or make thee run Too near the paths which virtue bids thee shun . Yet with her Henry still let Emma go ; With him abhor the ...
... grief of heart ! that our unhappy fates Force thee to suffer what thy honour hates : Mix thee amongst the bad ; or make thee run Too near the paths which virtue bids thee shun . Yet with her Henry still let Emma go ; With him abhor the ...
עמוד 36
... grief brings slow disease , And ebbing life , on terms severe as these , Will have its little lamp no longer fed ; When Henry's mistress shows him Emma dead ; Rescue my poor remains from vile neglect : With virgin honours let my hearse ...
... grief brings slow disease , And ebbing life , on terms severe as these , Will have its little lamp no longer fed ; When Henry's mistress shows him Emma dead ; Rescue my poor remains from vile neglect : With virgin honours let my hearse ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abra bawn blest bosom breast call'd CHARLES KINGSLEY charms Charon command condemn'd confess'd court crown'd cruel doubt Dean dear death delight destin'd diff'rent distinguish'd Dryden earth Emma Emma's epigram ev'ning ev'ry fair fame fate fear fix'd flame flow'rs folly Fraser's Magazine GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS grace grief hand happy hast heart heav'n Henry HERACLITUS honour hope human king land light Lord lov'd lyre madam mind mourn ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er OVID pain passion pleas'd pleasure poet Post Octavo pow'r praise pray'r pride Protogenes race rage rais'd reason receiv'd rise round rove shade sighs sing smiles soft sorrow soul sure Swift tears tell tempests thee thou thought throne toil trembling twas Venus verse vex'd virtue vows Water Lily weep whence whilst winds woods wound wretched youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 149 - His stomach too begins to fail: 'Last year we thought him strong and hale; 'But now, he's quite another thing; 'I wish he may hold out till Spring.' Then hug themselves, and reason thus; 'It is not yet so bad with us.
עמוד 160 - With all the turns of Whigs and Tories : Was cheerful to his dying day ; And friends would let him have his way. " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And show'd by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much.
עמוד 14 - Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There, Thomas, did'st thou never see (Tis but by way of Simile !) A squirrel spend his little rage, In jumping round a rolling cage? The cage, as either side...
עמוד 147 - I believe them true; They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast: 'In all distresses of our friends, We first consult our private ends; While nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
עמוד 124 - IN ancient times, as story tells, The saints would often leave their cells, And stroll about but hide their quality To try good people's hospitality. It...
עמוד 157 - To turn religion to a fable, And make the government a Babel ; Pervert the laws, disgrace the gown, Corrupt the senate, rob the crown ; To sacrifice old England's glory, And make her infamous in story: When such a tempest shook the land, How could unguarded virtue stand! •• With horror, grief, despair, the Dean Beheld the dire destructive scene : His friends in exile, or the tower, Himself within the frown of power; Pursued by base envenom'd pens, Far to the land of s and fens; A servile race...
עמוד 169 - Parnassus' top you sit, You rarely bite, are always bit : Each poet of inferior size On you shall rail and criticize, And strive to tear you limb from limb ; While others do as much for him.
עמוד 167 - And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he overrun ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.
עמוד 14 - DEAR Thomas, didst thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There, Thomas, didst thou never see ('Tis but by way of simile) A squirrel spend his little rage, In jumping round a rolling cage? The cage, as either side turn'd up, Striking a ring of bells a-top?
עמוד 165 - So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.