The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, כרך 15Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 61
עמוד 5
... rest of the poets , he wrote an elegiac ode on the death of Queen Mary . He was secretary of the embassy to Ryswick , in 1697 ; and is said to have received 200 guineas , from the Lord's Justices , for the trouble ' of bring- ing home ...
... rest of the poets , he wrote an elegiac ode on the death of Queen Mary . He was secretary of the embassy to Ryswick , in 1697 ; and is said to have received 200 guineas , from the Lord's Justices , for the trouble ' of bring- ing home ...
עמוד 20
... the great- est perfections of Nature , and possessed of all the advantages of external condition , he could not find happiness ; the rest of mankind may safely take the Monarch's word for the truth of what he asserts 20 20 PREFACE .
... the great- est perfections of Nature , and possessed of all the advantages of external condition , he could not find happiness ; the rest of mankind may safely take the Monarch's word for the truth of what he asserts 20 20 PREFACE .
עמוד 37
... rest , Another sun demands return of care , [ noon , The remnant toil of yesterday to bear ? Whilst , when the solar beams salute their sight , Bold and secure in half a year of light , Uninterrupted voyages they take To the remotest ...
... rest , Another sun demands return of care , [ noon , The remnant toil of yesterday to bear ? Whilst , when the solar beams salute their sight , Bold and secure in half a year of light , Uninterrupted voyages they take To the remotest ...
עמוד 39
... rest , Each becomes other . Water stopp'd , gives birth To grass and plants , and thickens into earth ; Diffus'd , it rises in a higher sphere , Dilates its drops , and softens into air : Those finer parts of air again aspire , Move ...
... rest , Each becomes other . Water stopp'd , gives birth To grass and plants , and thickens into earth ; Diffus'd , it rises in a higher sphere , Dilates its drops , and softens into air : Those finer parts of air again aspire , Move ...
עמוד 57
... rest : Yet still in vain ; for music gather'd thought ; But how unequal the effects it brought ! The soft ideas of the cheerful note , Lightly receiv'd , were easily forgot ; The solemn violence of the graver sound Knew to strike deep ...
... rest : Yet still in vain ; for music gather'd thought ; But how unequal the effects it brought ! The soft ideas of the cheerful note , Lightly receiv'd , were easily forgot ; The solemn violence of the graver sound Knew to strike deep ...
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.