The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, כרך 15Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 73
עמוד 7
... a thing ever entered the head of any literary projector . Dr. Johnson's own success , too , has overturned his theory concerning the untractability of his country- men ; and , if we except the stories of LIFE OF PRIOR .
... a thing ever entered the head of any literary projector . Dr. Johnson's own success , too , has overturned his theory concerning the untractability of his country- men ; and , if we except the stories of LIFE OF PRIOR .
עמוד 9
... health declined ; and he grew deaf ; for , ' as he says , ' he took little care of his ears while he was not sure that his head was his own . ' He died at Walpole , September 18th , 1721 ; and was buried LIFE OF PRIOR .
... health declined ; and he grew deaf ; for , ' as he says , ' he took little care of his ears while he was not sure that his head was his own . ' He died at Walpole , September 18th , 1721 ; and was buried LIFE OF PRIOR .
עמוד 30
... head , Whilst the distinguish'd yew is ever seen Unchang'd his branch and permanent his green ; Wanting the sun why does the caltha fade ? Why does the cypress flourish in the shade ? The fig and date , why love they to remain In middle ...
... head , Whilst the distinguish'd yew is ever seen Unchang'd his branch and permanent his green ; Wanting the sun why does the caltha fade ? Why does the cypress flourish in the shade ? The fig and date , why love they to remain In middle ...
עמוד 39
... d . By eating rain And furious wind , down to the distant plain The hill , that hides his head above the skies , Shall fall : the plain , by slow degrees , shall rise Higher than erst had stood the summit hill ; For Book 1 . 39 SOLOMON .
... d . By eating rain And furious wind , down to the distant plain The hill , that hides his head above the skies , Shall fall : the plain , by slow degrees , shall rise Higher than erst had stood the summit hill ; For Book 1 . 39 SOLOMON .
עמוד 59
... want : around my amorous head Be dropping myrrh and liquid amber shed Till Arab has no more ; from the soft lyre , Sweet flute , and ten - string'd instrument , require Sounds of delight : and thou , fair Nymph , Book 2 . 59 SOLOMON .
... want : around my amorous head Be dropping myrrh and liquid amber shed Till Arab has no more ; from the soft lyre , Sweet flute , and ten - string'd instrument , require Sounds of delight : and thou , fair Nymph , Book 2 . 59 SOLOMON .
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.