The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, כרך 261807 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 56
עמוד 4
... queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers : perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was si- lent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted ...
... queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers : perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was si- lent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted ...
עמוד 7
... queen Anne's reign was a time of war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had therefore leisure to make or to polish verses . When the battle of Blenheim called forth all the versemen , Prior , among the ...
... queen Anne's reign was a time of war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had therefore leisure to make or to polish verses . When the battle of Blenheim called forth all the versemen , Prior , among the ...
עמוד 8
... Queen grew weary of her ministers . The war was burdensome , and the ministers were inso- lent . Harley and his friends began to hope that they might , by driving the Whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the queen and the ...
... Queen grew weary of her ministers . The war was burdensome , and the ministers were inso- lent . Harley and his friends began to hope that they might , by driving the Whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the queen and the ...
עמוד 9
... Queen's ministers met Mesnager ( Sep- tember 20 , 1711 ) and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears from the mention made of him by St. John in his letter to the Queen . My Lord Treasurer moved , and ...
... Queen's ministers met Mesnager ( Sep- tember 20 , 1711 ) and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears from the mention made of him by St. John in his letter to the Queen . My Lord Treasurer moved , and ...
עמוד 10
... departure had the appointments and authority of an ambassador , though no public character . By some mistake of the Queen's orders the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in 10 LIFE OF MATTHEW PRIOK .
... departure had the appointments and authority of an ambassador , though no public character . By some mistake of the Queen's orders the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in 10 LIFE OF MATTHEW PRIOK .
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
ANACREON arms battle of Ramillies beauteous beauty Belgia beneath bless blest breast breath Britain charms Chloe Columbo command confest crown'd cruel cry'd Cupid dame Danube darts dear death delight Derry destin'd dread Duke dy'd e'er Earl of Dorset earth ev'ning ev'ry eyes fair fame Fate fear flame flies flow'rs Ganymede give glorious glory Goddess grace grief hand happy hast heart Heav'n hero honour Jove kind king live look Lord lyre maid MATTHEW PRIOR mighty Muse Namur ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace Phillis poet poor pow'r praise pray'r pride Prior Queen quoth rage reign reply'd sigh sing song soul swain tell thee things thou thought thro tow'rs triumph truth twas Venus verse vex'd virtue ween weep Whilst William's wound wretched youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 169 - INTERR'D beneath this marble stone Lie sauntering Jack and idle Joan. While rolling threescore years and one Did round this globe their courses run ; If human things went ill or well ; If changing empires rose or fell ; The morning past, the evening came, And found this couple still the same.
עמוד 26 - He had infused into it much knowledge and much thought; had often polished it to elegance, often dignified it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity: he perceived in it many excellences, and did not discover that it wanted that, without which all others are of small avail ; the power of engaging attention, and alluring curiosity.
עמוד 149 - Did Shadrach's zeal my glowing breast inspire, To weary tortures, and rejoice in fire; Or had I faith like that which Israel saw, When Moses gave them miracles, and law...
עמוד 27 - We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great source of pleasure. Perhaps BO man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it, or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided.
עמוד 215 - And from his artful round, I grant, That he with perfect skill can paint. The dullest genius cannot fail To find the moral of my tale : That the distinguish'd part of men, With compass, pencil, sword, or pen, Should in life's visit leave their name, In characters, which may proclaim, That they with ardour strove to raise At once their arts, and country's praise; And in their working took great care, That all was full, and round, and fair.
עמוד 162 - They seem'd just tallied for each other. Their moral and economy Most perfectly they made agree: Each virtue kept its proper bound, Nor trespass'd on the other's ground.
עמוד 121 - Athens Pisistratus rode ; Men thought her Minerva, and him a new god. But why should I stories of Athens rehearse, Where people knew love, and were partial to verse ; Since none can with justice my pleasures oppose, In Holland half drowned in interest and prose ? By Greece and past ages what need I be tried, When The Hague and the present are both on my side...
עמוד 189 - Large oxen in the fields were lowing: Good grain was sow'd; good fruit was growing: Of last year's corn in barns great store ; Fat turkeys gobbling at the door: And wealth (in short) with peace consented, That people here should live contented: But did they in effect do so? Have patience, friend, and thou shall know.
עמוד 42 - I have known his servants get into his way, that they might make a merit of it immediately after ; for he, that had the good fortune to be chid, was sure of being rewarded for it.
עמוד 136 - To me pertains not, she replies, To know or care where Cupid flies ; What are his haunts, or which his way ; Where he would dwell, or whither stray : so Yet will I never set thee free : For harm was meant, and harm to me. Vain fears that vex thy virgin heart ! I'll give thee up my bow and dart ; Untangle but this cruel chain, And freely let me fly again.