The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, المجلد 15Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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الصفحة 13
... nature , or the acquirements of study . We have here to notice another instance of Dr. Johnson's disposition to retract , in one place , the praise , which he has given in another . Speaking of Prior's Tales , he says , ' they are ...
... nature , or the acquirements of study . We have here to notice another instance of Dr. Johnson's disposition to retract , in one place , the praise , which he has given in another . Speaking of Prior's Tales , he says , ' they are ...
الصفحة 28
... Nature ; discourses of vegeta- bles , animals , and man ; proposes some questions concerning the origin and situation of the habitable earth ; proceeds to ex- amine the system of the visible heaven ; doubts if there may not be a ...
... Nature ; discourses of vegeta- bles , animals , and man ; proposes some questions concerning the origin and situation of the habitable earth ; proceeds to ex- amine the system of the visible heaven ; doubts if there may not be a ...
الصفحة 32
... nature and the various race ; Or wild or tame , or friend to man or foe , Of us what they , or what of them , we know ? ' Tell me , ye studious ; who pretend to see Far into Nature's bosom , whence the bee Was first inform'd her ...
... nature and the various race ; Or wild or tame , or friend to man or foe , Of us what they , or what of them , we know ? ' Tell me , ye studious ; who pretend to see Far into Nature's bosom , whence the bee Was first inform'd her ...
الصفحة 34
... Nature loves a various act , Prone to enlarge , or studious to contract ; Now forms her work too small , now too immense ... Nature's power , but seek in vain , Safe sits the goddess in her dark retreat , Around her myriads of ideas wait ...
... Nature loves a various act , Prone to enlarge , or studious to contract ; Now forms her work too small , now too immense ... Nature's power , but seek in vain , Safe sits the goddess in her dark retreat , Around her myriads of ideas wait ...
الصفحة 40
... Nature's great behest fulfil . Thus by a length of years and change of fate , All things are light or heavy , small or great ; Thus Jordan's waves shall future clouds appear , And Egypt's pyramids refine to air ; Thus later age shall ...
... Nature's great behest fulfil . Thus by a length of years and change of fate , All things are light or heavy , small or great ; Thus Jordan's waves shall future clouds appear , And Egypt's pyramids refine to air ; Thus later age shall ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.