The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, כרך 15Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 96
עמוד 8
... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy country- men , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . ' The duke of Shrewsbury was , 6 soon after , sent on a formal embassy to ...
... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy country- men , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . ' The duke of Shrewsbury was , 6 soon after , sent on a formal embassy to ...
עמוד 18
... it neces- sary to form some story , and give a kind of body to the Poem . Under what species it may be com- prehended , whether Didascalic or Heroic , I leave to the judgment of the critics , desiring them to 18 PREFACE .
... it neces- sary to form some story , and give a kind of body to the Poem . Under what species it may be com- prehended , whether Didascalic or Heroic , I leave to the judgment of the critics , desiring them to 18 PREFACE .
עמוד 20
... give of his adventures , and in the accumulated praises of his heroine Glo- riana . The whole would have been an heroic poem , but in another cast and figure than any that had ever been written before . Yet it is observable can judge by ...
... give of his adventures , and in the accumulated praises of his heroine Glo- riana . The whole would have been an heroic poem , but in another cast and figure than any that had ever been written before . Yet it is observable can judge by ...
עמוד 23
... give all just praise to many of my friends , now living , who have in Epic carried the harmony of their numbers as far as the nature of this measure will permit : but , once more , he that writes in rhymes dances in fetters ; and as his ...
... give all just praise to many of my friends , now living , who have in Epic carried the harmony of their numbers as far as the nature of this measure will permit : but , once more , he that writes in rhymes dances in fetters ; and as his ...
עמוד 24
... give up here the fruits of many of my vacant hours to their amusement and plea sure , I shall always think myself happy if I may dedicate my most serious endeavours to their in- terest and service : and I am proud to finish this Preface ...
... give up here the fruits of many of my vacant hours to their amusement and plea sure , I shall always think myself happy if I may dedicate my most serious endeavours to their in- terest and service : and I am proud to finish this Preface ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abra Alma assert atoms beams beauty birth Blackmore bless'd brain breast bright cause chance charms chyle Columbo crown'd cruel doubt death delight Derry design'd destin'd Dick distinguish'd earth Epicurus eternal fair fate fear fire fix'd flame flood flow force form'd frame give glebe globe grant grief happy head heart Heaven heavenly hills honour hope King labour land light Lucretius lyre mighty mind motion move Namur nature Nature's nature's ends ne'er never night Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er orbs pain Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poets Poltis pride pursue race rage rais'd rays reason rise roll Sambre seat sense sing skies sorrow soul spheres Spiritus intus alit spring streams swift tell thee things thou thought throne toil various veins vex'd vigour waves whence Whilst winds wise wondrous
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 48 - 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 25 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
עמוד 82 - 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 81 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
עמוד 24 - 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 48 - 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...
עמוד 24 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
עמוד 49 - DEAD flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour : so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
עמוד 140 - I mention'd different ways of breeding: Begin we in our children's reading. To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells, and gnaws, from left to right.