The British Poets, المجلد 2Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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الصفحة 56
... rich is happy in the plenty given , The poor contents him with the care of Heaven . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing , The sot a hero , lunatic a king , The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely bless'd , the poet ...
... rich is happy in the plenty given , The poor contents him with the care of Heaven . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing , The sot a hero , lunatic a king , The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely bless'd , the poet ...
الصفحة 72
... rich , more wise : but who infers from hence That such are happier , shocks all common sense . Heaven to mankind impartial we confess , If all are equal in their happiness : But mutual wants this happiness increase ; All nature's ...
... rich , more wise : but who infers from hence That such are happier , shocks all common sense . Heaven to mankind impartial we confess , If all are equal in their happiness : But mutual wants this happiness increase ; All nature's ...
الصفحة 81
... rich , the honour'd , fam'd , and great , See the false scale of happiness complete ! In hearts of kings or arms of queens who lay , How happy those to ruin , these betray . Mark by what wretched steps their glory grows , From dirt and ...
... rich , the honour'd , fam'd , and great , See the false scale of happiness complete ! In hearts of kings or arms of queens who lay , How happy those to ruin , these betray . Mark by what wretched steps their glory grows , From dirt and ...
الصفحة 124
... rich was prodigal expense ; And who would take the poor from Providence ? Like some lone Chartreux stands the good old hall , Silence without , and fasts within the wall ; No rafter'd roofs with dance and tabor sound , No noontide bell ...
... rich was prodigal expense ; And who would take the poor from Providence ? Like some lone Chartreux stands the good old hall , Silence without , and fasts within the wall ; No rafter'd roofs with dance and tabor sound , No noontide bell ...
الصفحة 128
... rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough that virtue fill'd the space between , Prov'd by the ends of being to have been . When Hopkins dies , a thousand lights attend The wretch who living sav'd a candle's end : Shouldering God's ...
... rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough that virtue fill'd the space between , Prov'd by the ends of being to have been . When Hopkins dies , a thousand lights attend The wretch who living sav'd a candle's end : Shouldering God's ...
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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...