Solomon de mundi vanitate: poema, כרך 1E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1734 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 20
עמוד 33
... Virtue , and of God . How shall We next o'er Earth and Seas pursue The vary'd Forms of every thing we view ; That all is chang'd , tho ' all is ftill the same , Fluid the Parts , yet durable the Frame ? E Of Nempe ea , quæ fontes rerum ...
... Virtue , and of God . How shall We next o'er Earth and Seas pursue The vary'd Forms of every thing we view ; That all is chang'd , tho ' all is ftill the same , Fluid the Parts , yet durable the Frame ? E Of Nempe ea , quæ fontes rerum ...
עמוד 41
... Virtues Sublime , great Attributes of Heav'n , From thence to this distinguish'd Nation giv'n ; Yet farther Weft the Western ISLE extends Her happy Fame : her Armed Fleets She fends To Climates folded yet from human Eye ; And Lands ...
... Virtues Sublime , great Attributes of Heav'n , From thence to this distinguish'd Nation giv'n ; Yet farther Weft the Western ISLE extends Her happy Fame : her Armed Fleets She fends To Climates folded yet from human Eye ; And Lands ...
עמוד 75
... Virtue for once fhall be Her own Reward : Yes ; Rebel ISRAEL , this unhappy Maid Shall be difmifs'd : the Crowd fhall be obey'd : The King his Paffion , and his Rule shall leave , No longer ABRA's , but the People's Slave . My Coward ...
... Virtue for once fhall be Her own Reward : Yes ; Rebel ISRAEL , this unhappy Maid Shall be difmifs'd : the Crowd fhall be obey'd : The King his Paffion , and his Rule shall leave , No longer ABRA's , but the People's Slave . My Coward ...
עמוד 83
... Virtue fails . By fad Degrees impair'd my Vigor dyes ; Till I Command no longer ev'n in Vice . The Women on my Dotage build their Sway : They ask ; I grant : They threaten ; I obey . In Regal Garments now I gravely ftride , Aw'd by the ...
... Virtue fails . By fad Degrees impair'd my Vigor dyes ; Till I Command no longer ev'n in Vice . The Women on my Dotage build their Sway : They ask ; I grant : They threaten ; I obey . In Regal Garments now I gravely ftride , Aw'd by the ...
עמוד 89
... Virtue , yet by Vice undone . Oft have I faid ; the Praise of doing well Is to the Ear , as Oyntment to the Smell . Now if fome Flies perchance , however small , Into the Alabafter Urn fhould fall ; The Odors of the Sweets inclos'd ...
... Virtue , yet by Vice undone . Oft have I faid ; the Praise of doing well Is to the Ear , as Oyntment to the Smell . Now if fome Flies perchance , however small , Into the Alabafter Urn fhould fall ; The Odors of the Sweets inclos'd ...
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 51 - And griefs, will find their shafts elanc'd in vain, And their points broke, retorted from the head, Safe in the grave, and free among the dead.
עמוד 25 - I tell thee, life is but one common care; And man was born to suffer, and to fear. " But is no rank, no station, no degree From this contagious taint of sorrow free...
עמוד 63 - O subject Reason ! O imperious Love! Whither yet further would my folly rove ? Is it enough that Abra should be great In the wall'd palace or the rural seat...
עמוד 73 - Forsakes his Joy to vindicate his Pride ; And changing Sorrows, I am only found Loos'd from the Chains of Love, in Thine more strictly bound.
עמוד 5 - And on the jasper steps to rear the throne : The spreading cedar, that an age had stood, Supreme of trees, and mistress of the wood, Cut down and carv'd, my shining roof adorns, And Lebanon his ruin'd honour mourns.
עמוד 49 - How mean the order and perfection sought In the best product of the human thought, Compar'd to the great harmony that reigns In what the spirit of the world ordains...
עמוד 73 - Judah's king, at thy tribunal try'd, Forsakes his joy, to vindicate his pride, And, changing sorrows, I am only found...
עמוד 13 - ... phantoms of the night, What had been said, I ask'd my soul, what done; How flow'd our mirth, and whence the source begun ? Perhaps the jest that charm'd the sprightly...
עמוד 13 - Their station changing with th' inverted year. How all with careful knowledge are endued, To choose their proper bed, and wave, and food: To guard their spawn, and educate their brood. Of birds, how each according to her kind Proper materials for her nest can find, And build a frame, which deepest thought in man Would or amend, or imitate in vain.