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 17
עמוד
... poet , and had a pervading and persisting spirit , which animated , in some degree , even his laziest productions . Prior , in short , seems to have written in a greater variety of different humours , as one may call them , than Dryden ...
... poet , and had a pervading and persisting spirit , which animated , in some degree , even his laziest productions . Prior , in short , seems to have written in a greater variety of different humours , as one may call them , than Dryden ...
עמוד iii
... poet , and had a pervading and persisting spirit , which animated , in some degree , even his laziest productions . Prior , in short , seems to have written in a greater variety of different humours , as one may call them , than Dryden ...
... poet , and had a pervading and persisting spirit , which animated , in some degree , even his laziest productions . Prior , in short , seems to have written in a greater variety of different humours , as one may call them , than Dryden ...
עמוד iv
... poet . But he has also always appeared to me a peculiarly interesting writer , from the situation which he occupies in the his- tory of literature , coming between Dryden and Pope . His ideas of finish are , upon principle , by no means ...
... poet . But he has also always appeared to me a peculiarly interesting writer , from the situation which he occupies in the his- tory of literature , coming between Dryden and Pope . His ideas of finish are , upon principle , by no means ...
עמוד 18
... go , Always aspiring , always low . EPIGRAM . To John I owed great obligation ; But John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : Sure John and I are more than quit . Another . YES , every poet is a fool : 18 PRIOR .
... go , Always aspiring , always low . EPIGRAM . To John I owed great obligation ; But John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : Sure John and I are more than quit . Another . YES , every poet is a fool : 18 PRIOR .
עמוד 19
Matthew Prior Esquire Charles BATHURST. Another . YES , every poet is a fool : By demonstration Ned can show it . Happy , could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet . Another . THY nags , the leanest things alive , So very ...
Matthew Prior Esquire Charles BATHURST. Another . YES , every poet is a fool : By demonstration Ned can show it . Happy , could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet . Another . THY nags , the leanest things alive , So very ...
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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
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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.