The Poetical Works of Matthew PriorJ. Nichol, 1858 - 475 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 6-10 מתוך 74
עמוד 23
... virtue strong as yours had Eve been armed , In vain the fruit had blushed , or serpent charmed : Nor had our bliss by penitence been bought ; Nor had frail Adam fallen , nor Milton wrote . 10 1 Elizabeth , daughter of Baptist Noel ...
... virtue strong as yours had Eve been armed , In vain the fruit had blushed , or serpent charmed : Nor had our bliss by penitence been bought ; Nor had frail Adam fallen , nor Milton wrote . 10 1 Elizabeth , daughter of Baptist Noel ...
עמוד 42
... virtues shall their vigils keep : And every Muse , and every Grace In solemn state shall ever weep . MDCXCV.1 2 The future , pious , mournful fair , Oft as the rolling years return , With fragrant wreaths , and flowing hair , Shall ...
... virtues shall their vigils keep : And every Muse , and every Grace In solemn state shall ever weep . MDCXCV.1 2 The future , pious , mournful fair , Oft as the rolling years return , With fragrant wreaths , and flowing hair , Shall ...
עמוד 46
... virtue can be tried , And show the world , that thou canst live , Intrepid , as thy consort died . 30 Thy virtue , whose resistless force No dire event could ever stay , Must carry on its destined course , Though Death and Envy stop the ...
... virtue can be tried , And show the world , that thou canst live , Intrepid , as thy consort died . 30 Thy virtue , whose resistless force No dire event could ever stay , Must carry on its destined course , Though Death and Envy stop the ...
עמוד 47
... virtues stored , Her power with boundless joy confessed , Her person only not adored ; 36 Yet ought his sorrow to be checked ; Yet ought his passions to abate ; If the great mourner would reflect , Her glory in her death complete . 37 ...
... virtues stored , Her power with boundless joy confessed , Her person only not adored ; 36 Yet ought his sorrow to be checked ; Yet ought his passions to abate ; If the great mourner would reflect , Her glory in her death complete . 37 ...
עמוד 50
... Virtue leads the noble way : Too like a vulture Boileau flies , Where sordid Interest shows the prey . When once the Poet's honour ceases , From reason far his transports rove ; And Boileau , for eight hundred pieces , Makes Louis take ...
... Virtue leads the noble way : Too like a vulture Boileau flies , Where sordid Interest shows the prey . When once the Poet's honour ceases , From reason far his transports rove ; And Boileau , for eight hundred pieces , Makes Louis take ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abra Alma Apollo arms beauty Belgia bless breast breath charms Cloe Columbo command confessed crowned cruel cruel doubt Cupid dame Danube dart dear death delight Derry Dick dread e'er earth Emma Emma's fair fame fate favour fear flame George Rooke glorious goddess grace grief hand happy hast heart Heaven hero honour hope Jove king labour light live look Lord Lucretius lyre maid master MATTHEW PRIOR mighty mind mourn Muse Namur ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er obey pain passion peace plain pleasure poet praise pride queen quoth rage reign rise sighs sing smiling song sorrow soul St John's College tears tell thee things thou thought throne toil triumph truth twas Venus verse virtue vows ween weep WESTMINSTER SCHOOL Whilst William wings wise wound wretched youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 294 - 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 271 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
עמוד 84 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
עמוד 271 - 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 271 - 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 213 - And, finishing its act, exists no more : Thus in obedience to what heaven decrees, Knowledge shall fail, and prophecy shall cease ; But lasting Charity's more ample sway, Nor bound by time, nor subject to decay, In happy triumph shall for ever live, And endless good diffuse, and endless praise receive.
עמוד 271 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
עמוד 137 - Mov'd in the orb, pleas'd with the chimes, The foolish creature thinks he climbs: But here or there, turn wood or wire, He never gets two inches higher. So fares it with those merry blades, That frisk it under Pindus
עמוד 101 - Animula vagula, blandula, Hospes comesque corporis, Quae nunc abibis in loca? Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nee (ut soles) dabis joca...
עמוד 152 - Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea, While gentle zephyrs play in prosperous gales, And Fortune's favour fills the swelling sails, But would forsake the ship and make the shore, When the winds whistle and the tempests roar?