The British Poets, المجلد 2Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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الصفحة 12
... pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly cold , and regularly low , That shunning faults one quiet tenor keep , We cannot blame indeed - but we may sleep . In wit , as nature , what affects ...
... pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly cold , and regularly low , That shunning faults one quiet tenor keep , We cannot blame indeed - but we may sleep . In wit , as nature , what affects ...
الصفحة 23
... pleasure , wealth , and ease Sprung the rank weed , and thriv'd with large in- crease : When love was all an easy monarch's care , Seldom at council , never in a war ; Jilts rul'd the state , and statesmen farces writ ; Nay wits had ...
... pleasure , wealth , and ease Sprung the rank weed , and thriv'd with large in- crease : When love was all an easy monarch's care , Seldom at council , never in a war ; Jilts rul'd the state , and statesmen farces writ ; Nay wits had ...
الصفحة 24
... pleasure own your errors past , And make each day a critique on the last . ' Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not 24 THE POEMS AN ...
... pleasure own your errors past , And make each day a critique on the last . ' Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not 24 THE POEMS AN ...
الصفحة 49
... pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; Then see how little the remaining sum , Which serv'd the past , and must the times to come ! 2. Two principles in human ...
... pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; Then see how little the remaining sum , Which serv'd the past , and must the times to come ! 2. Two principles in human ...
الصفحة 50
... pleasure their desire ; But greedy that , its object would devour ; This taste the honey , and not wound the flower : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil or our greatest good . 3. Modes of self - love the ...
... pleasure their desire ; But greedy that , its object would devour ; This taste the honey , and not wound the flower : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil or our greatest good . 3. Modes of self - love the ...
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Ambrose Philips ANTISTROPHE Balaam beauty behold bless'd blessing bliss breast breath Brobdingnag Cæsar Catiline charms Countess of Suffolk cried critics crown'd dame dear death e'en e'er ease envy EPISTLE ESSAY ON CRITICISM Eurydice Eustace Budgell eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flame fool gentle gold grace Gulliver's Travels happiness heart Heaven honour Houyhnhnm join'd king knave knight lady learn'd learning live lord lov'd lyre man's mankind mind mortal Muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pain parterre passion Phryne pleas'd pleasure poet Pope praise pride proud rage rais'd reason rise rules sage Sappho seem'd self-love SEMICHORUS sense shade shine sigh skies SMIL soft soul spouse squire taste thee things thou thought true Twas tyrant virtue whate'er whole wife wise youth
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الصفحة 47 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest, In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer...
الصفحة 152 - The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave, where is thy victory ? O death, where is thy sting...
الصفحة 82 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
الصفحة 48 - Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
الصفحة 17 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
الصفحة 135 - You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many blunders make...
الصفحة 46 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee.
الصفحة 102 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
الصفحة 17 - whispers through the trees :" If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
الصفحة 85 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...