The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, כרך 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 6-10 מתוך 100
עמוד 38
... live ; The prospect will instruction give . For see , where beauteous Thames does glide Serene , but with a fruitful tide ; Free from extremes of ebb and flow , Not swell'd too high , nor sunk too low : Such let my life's smooth current ...
... live ; The prospect will instruction give . For see , where beauteous Thames does glide Serene , but with a fruitful tide ; Free from extremes of ebb and flow , Not swell'd too high , nor sunk too low : Such let my life's smooth current ...
עמוד 41
... live , For ev'n thy shadows give surprise , As when we view in crystal streams The morning Sun , and rising beams , That seem to shoot from other skies . Enchanting vision ! who can be Unmov'd that turns his eyes on thee ? Yet brighter ...
... live , For ev'n thy shadows give surprise , As when we view in crystal streams The morning Sun , and rising beams , That seem to shoot from other skies . Enchanting vision ! who can be Unmov'd that turns his eyes on thee ? Yet brighter ...
עמוד 43
... live , Alike consum'd in Love's soft fire , That neither may at last survive , But gentle both at once expire . SONGS . THY origin's divine , I see , Of mortal race thou canst not be ; Thy lip a ruby lustre shows ; Thy purple cheek ...
... live , Alike consum'd in Love's soft fire , That neither may at last survive , But gentle both at once expire . SONGS . THY origin's divine , I see , Of mortal race thou canst not be ; Thy lip a ruby lustre shows ; Thy purple cheek ...
עמוד 48
... live . Yet stone and brass our hopes betray , Age steals the mimic forms and characters awaya In vain , O Egypt , to the wondering skies , With giant pride , thy pyramids arise ; Whate'er their vast and gloomy vaults contain , No names ...
... live . Yet stone and brass our hopes betray , Age steals the mimic forms and characters awaya In vain , O Egypt , to the wondering skies , With giant pride , thy pyramids arise ; Whate'er their vast and gloomy vaults contain , No names ...
עמוד 58
... live , but die , with thee ; What joy could life afford a wretched woman , Bereft of father , brother , every friend ? - But if you so command , I will retire ; In the meanwhile compose thyself to rest , Reclin❜d upon thy couch ; nor ...
... live , but die , with thee ; What joy could life afford a wretched woman , Bereft of father , brother , every friend ? - But if you so command , I will retire ; In the meanwhile compose thyself to rest , Reclin❜d upon thy couch ; nor ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Apollo arms beauteous beauty Behold Belgia bless blest breast bright Cæsar charms Columbo confest crown'd Cupid darts dear death delight e'er Earth Epicurus ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flow Ganymede goddess gods grace grief grove hand happy hast hear heart Heaven hero honour Jove kind king labour light live lord lov'd Lucretius lyre maid MATTHEW PRIOR mighty mind mourn Muse Namur Nature's ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er Ovid pain passion peace Peneus Phoebus Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet Pothinus praise pride queen rage rais'd reign rise sacred shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song soul swain sweet tears tell thee things thou thought toil twas Venus verse vex'd Virg virtue weep Whilst winds wise wretched wyll youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 262 - And terror on my aching s'ight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
עמוד 42 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
עמוד 509 - From nature too I take my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. Can grave and formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl despise? My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much, must talk in vain.
עמוד 430 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera.
עמוד 213 - 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 430 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life written, books of VOL
עמוד 262 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
עמוד 430 - Its reception is thus recorded in the notes to the "Dunciad":— "This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixty-three days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time; at Bath and Bristol fifty, etc.
עמוד 43 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise; See the snakes that they rear. How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
עמוד 319 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...