The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, כרך 15Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 30
עמוד 6
... . ' * It may have occurred to the biographer , that it would neither violate the nature , nor the truth , if his own name should be substi- tuted for the word monarchs . When we reflect , that Dr. Johnson , singly , 6 LIFE OF PRIOR .
... . ' * It may have occurred to the biographer , that it would neither violate the nature , nor the truth , if his own name should be substi- tuted for the word monarchs . When we reflect , that Dr. Johnson , singly , 6 LIFE OF PRIOR .
עמוד 7
With Lives of the Authors Ezekiel Sanford Robert Walsh. When we reflect , that Dr. Johnson , singly , at- chieved more than the whole French Academy to- gether , perhaps we shall excuse the contempt with which he generally speaks of such ...
With Lives of the Authors Ezekiel Sanford Robert Walsh. When we reflect , that Dr. Johnson , singly , at- chieved more than the whole French Academy to- gether , perhaps we shall excuse the contempt with which he generally speaks of such ...
עמוד 36
... reflect how the revolving sun Does round our globe his crooked journies run , I doubt of many lands if they contain Or herd of beast or colony of man ; If any nation pass their destin'd days Beneath the neighbouring sun's directer rays ...
... reflect how the revolving sun Does round our globe his crooked journies run , I doubt of many lands if they contain Or herd of beast or colony of man ; If any nation pass their destin'd days Beneath the neighbouring sun's directer rays ...
עמוד 56
... reflected , griev'd ; I chid the folly of my thoughtless haste , For , the work perfected , the joy was past . To my new courts sad Thought did still repair , And round my gilded roofs hung hovering Care . In vain on silken beds I ...
... reflected , griev'd ; I chid the folly of my thoughtless haste , For , the work perfected , the joy was past . To my new courts sad Thought did still repair , And round my gilded roofs hung hovering Care . In vain on silken beds I ...
עמוד 63
... Reflect again , and thou again shalt mourn . [ sought , When I through number'd years have pleasure And in vain hope the wanton phantom caught , To mock my sense and mortify my pride , ' Tis in another's power , and is denied . Am I a ...
... Reflect again , and thou again shalt mourn . [ sought , When I through number'd years have pleasure And in vain hope the wanton phantom caught , To mock my sense and mortify my pride , ' Tis in another's power , and is denied . Am I a ...
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.