The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, المجلد 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... playing at Ombre with two Ladies Cupid's Promise , a French Song paraphrased . ib . To the Earl of Oxford . Written ... play . 237 Two Riddles . First printed in the Examiner , A Fable , inscribed to Dr. Swift The Widow and her Cat . A ...
... playing at Ombre with two Ladies Cupid's Promise , a French Song paraphrased . ib . To the Earl of Oxford . Written ... play . 237 Two Riddles . First printed in the Examiner , A Fable , inscribed to Dr. Swift The Widow and her Cat . A ...
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... play , which still continues on the stage , and of which it is unnecessary to add a private voice to such continuance of approbation , is not acted or printed according to the author's original draught , or his settled intention . He ...
... play , which still continues on the stage , and of which it is unnecessary to add a private voice to such continuance of approbation , is not acted or printed according to the author's original draught , or his settled intention . He ...
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... play , Whose spreading fame has reach'd to foreign lands , And kind applauses mark'd its happy way , Receive some tribute too from British hands . POEMS OF JOHN HUGHES . THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE . 10 RECOMMENDATORY POEMS .
... play , Whose spreading fame has reach'd to foreign lands , And kind applauses mark'd its happy way , Receive some tribute too from British hands . POEMS OF JOHN HUGHES . THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE . 10 RECOMMENDATORY POEMS .
الصفحة 11
... play ; And sportful dolphins , with a nimble glance , To the bright Sun their glittering scales advance . In oozy beds profound the billows sleep , No clamorous winds awake the silent deep ; Rebuk'd , they whisper in a gentle breeze ...
... play ; And sportful dolphins , with a nimble glance , To the bright Sun their glittering scales advance . In oozy beds profound the billows sleep , No clamorous winds awake the silent deep ; Rebuk'd , they whisper in a gentle breeze ...
الصفحة 21
... Play , Mistake , and jealous Fear . Be this thy guard , great Love ! be this thy train ; Since these extend o'er men and gods thy reign ; But robb'd of these , thy power is weak and vain . From Heaven thy mother shall thy pomp survey ...
... Play , Mistake , and jealous Fear . Be this thy guard , great Love ! be this thy train ; Since these extend o'er men and gods thy reign ; But robb'd of these , thy power is weak and vain . From Heaven thy mother shall thy pomp survey ...
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الصفحة 428 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us ; and we now and then gave a correction or a word or two of advice, but it was wholly of his own writing.
الصفحة 211 - I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
الصفحة 205 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
الصفحة 440 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
الصفحة 113 - We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great source of pleasure. Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it, or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided.
الصفحة 145 - Athens Pisistratus rode ; Men thought her Minerva, and him a new god. But why should I stories of Athens rehearse, Where people knew love, and were partial to verse ; Since none can with justice my pleasures oppose, In Holland half...
الصفحة 150 - Ah me ! the blooming pride of May And that of Beauty are but one : At morn both flourish, bright and gay, Both fade at evening, pale and gone.
الصفحة 456 - Let others in the jolting coach confide, Or in the leaky boat the Thames divide; Or, box'd within the chair, contemn the street, And trust their safety to another's feet, Still let me walk; for oft the sudden gale Ruffles the tide, and shifts the dang'rous sail.
الصفحة 427 - will make " you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton " every day." This counsel was rejected : the profit and principal were lost ; and Gay sunk under the calamity so low, that his life became in danger.
الصفحة 261 - And shoot a chilness to my .trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.