The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, المجلد 15Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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الصفحة 28
... serious Muse inspires him to explain That all we act and all we think is vain : That in this pilgrimage of seventy years , O'er rocks of perils and through vales of tears Destin'd to march , our doubtful steps we tend , SOLOMON ,
... serious Muse inspires him to explain That all we act and all we think is vain : That in this pilgrimage of seventy years , O'er rocks of perils and through vales of tears Destin'd to march , our doubtful steps we tend , SOLOMON ,
الصفحة 32
... vain ? How in small flights they know to try their young , And teach the callow child her parent's song ? Why these frequent the plain , and those the wood ? Why every land has her specific brood ? Where the tall crane or winding ...
... vain ? How in small flights they know to try their young , And teach the callow child her parent's song ? Why these frequent the plain , and those the wood ? Why every land has her specific brood ? Where the tall crane or winding ...
الصفحة 34
... vain , Safe sits the goddess in her dark retreat , Around her myriads of ideas wait , And endless shapes , which the mysterious queen Can take or quit , can alter or retain , As from our lost pursuit she wills to hide Her close decrees ...
... vain , Safe sits the goddess in her dark retreat , Around her myriads of ideas wait , And endless shapes , which the mysterious queen Can take or quit , can alter or retain , As from our lost pursuit she wills to hide Her close decrees ...
الصفحة 42
... vain , ' Tis hid in vapours , or obscur'd by rain : The noontide yellow we in vain require , ' Tis black in storm , or red in lightning fire . Pitchy and dark the night sometimes appears , Friend to our woe , and parent of our fears ...
... vain , ' Tis hid in vapours , or obscur'd by rain : The noontide yellow we in vain require , ' Tis black in storm , or red in lightning fire . Pitchy and dark the night sometimes appears , Friend to our woe , and parent of our fears ...
الصفحة 44
... vain we measure this amazing sphere , And find and fix its centre here or there , Whilst its circumference , scorning to be brought Even into fancied space , illudes our vanquish'd thought . ' Where , then , are all the radiant monsters ...
... vain we measure this amazing sphere , And find and fix its centre here or there , Whilst its circumference , scorning to be brought Even into fancied space , illudes our vanquish'd thought . ' Where , then , are all the radiant monsters ...
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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.