The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, כרך 15 |
מתוך הספר
עמוד 32
Of birds , how each , according to her kind , Proper materials for her nest can find
, And build a frame which deepest thought in man Would or amend or imitate in
vain ? How in small flights they know to try their young , And teach the callow ...
Of birds , how each , according to her kind , Proper materials for her nest can find
, And build a frame which deepest thought in man Would or amend or imitate in
vain ? How in small flights they know to try their young , And teach the callow ...
עמוד 34
To those enormous terrors of the Nile , The crested snake and long - tail ' d
crocodile , Than that all differ but in shape and name , Each destin ' d to a less or
larger frame ? ' For potent Nature loves a various act , Prone to enlarge , or
studious ...
To those enormous terrors of the Nile , The crested snake and long - tail ' d
crocodile , Than that all differ but in shape and name , Each destin ' d to a less or
larger frame ? ' For potent Nature loves a various act , Prone to enlarge , or
studious ...
עמוד 35
How can we justly different causes frame , When the effects entirely are the same
? Instinct and reason how can we divide ? ' Tis the fool ' s ignorance and the
pedant ' s pride . With the same folly , sure , man vaunts his sway , If the brute
beast ...
How can we justly different causes frame , When the effects entirely are the same
? Instinct and reason how can we divide ? ' Tis the fool ' s ignorance and the
pedant ' s pride . With the same folly , sure , man vaunts his sway , If the brute
beast ...
עמוד 39
How shall we next o ' er earth and seas pursue The varied forms of every thing
we view ; That all is chang ' d , though all is still the same , Fluid the parts , yet
durable the frame ? Of those materials which have been confess ' d The pristine ...
How shall we next o ' er earth and seas pursue The varied forms of every thing
we view ; That all is chang ' d , though all is still the same , Fluid the parts , yet
durable the frame ? Of those materials which have been confess ' d The pristine ...
עמוד 47
Have they , again , ( as sacred song proclaims ) Substances real , and existing
frames ? How comes it , since with them we jointly share The great effect of one
Creator ' s care , That whilst our bodies sicken and decay , Theirs are for ever ...
Have they , again , ( as sacred song proclaims ) Substances real , and existing
frames ? How comes it , since with them we jointly share The great effect of one
Creator ' s care , That whilst our bodies sicken and decay , Theirs are for ever ...
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לא מצאנו ביקורות במקומות הרגילים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
appear arms atoms beauty birth bodies breast bright bring cause chance command course death doubtful earth ease equal fair fate fear field fire flame flood flow force frame give grant grief hand happy head heart Heaven hills hope human keep kind King labour land laws learned leave less light live lost matter mind motion move nature Nature's ne'er never night object once orbs pain pass perfect plain pleasure pride pursue race rage rays reason reflect rest rise roll round seat sense skies skill soul space spirits spread spring streams tell thee things thou thought thousand turns various waves whence whole winds wise wood
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.