The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, المجلد 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... reason may be admitted to have any share in these entertain- ments , nothing is more necessary than that the words should be understood , without which the end of vocal music is lost . The want of this oc- casions a common complaint ...
... reason may be admitted to have any share in these entertain- ments , nothing is more necessary than that the words should be understood , without which the end of vocal music is lost . The want of this oc- casions a common complaint ...
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... reason of which is , perhaps , that they have a mistaken notion of it . They are accustomed to think that all music should be air ; and being disappointed of what they expect , they lose the beauty that is in it of a different kind . It ...
... reason of which is , perhaps , that they have a mistaken notion of it . They are accustomed to think that all music should be air ; and being disappointed of what they expect , they lose the beauty that is in it of a different kind . It ...
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... reason , bears the sway ! Swains themselves , while they pursue us , Often teach us to deny . While we fly , they fondly woo us ; If we grow too fond , they fly . DORIS . Yet might I see one courting swain , Though but to slight him ...
... reason , bears the sway ! Swains themselves , while they pursue us , Often teach us to deny . While we fly , they fondly woo us ; If we grow too fond , they fly . DORIS . Yet might I see one courting swain , Though but to slight him ...
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... reason ! And now no track of foriner thought remains . ELECTRA . O my much - lov'd Orestes ! O my brother ! With joy I've watch'd o'er thy late healing slumbers . Come - shall I help to raise thee from thy couch ! ORESTES . Soft , I ...
... reason ! And now no track of foriner thought remains . ELECTRA . O my much - lov'd Orestes ! O my brother ! With joy I've watch'd o'er thy late healing slumbers . Come - shall I help to raise thee from thy couch ! ORESTES . Soft , I ...
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... reason and of sight , The goddess is , who sways this realm of night ; Her power extends o'er all things that have breath , A cruel tyrant , and her name is Death . The fairest object of our wondering eyes Was newly offer'd up her ...
... reason and of sight , The goddess is , who sways this realm of night ; Her power extends o'er all things that have breath , A cruel tyrant , and her name is Death . The fairest object of our wondering eyes Was newly offer'd up her ...
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Apollo arms atheists beauteous beauty Behold Belgia bless blest breast bright Cæsar CANTATA charms Columbo confest crown'd Cupid darts dear death delight divine e'er Earth Epicurus ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flow goddess gods grace grief grove hand happy hast hear heart Heaven hero honour Jove kind king labour light live lord Lucretius lyre maid MATTHEW PRIOR mighty mind mourn Muse Namur Nature's ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er pain passion peace Peneus Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet Pothinus praise pride queen rage rais'd reign rise Rome sacred shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song soul swain sweet tears tell thee things thou thought toil twas Venus verse vex'd Virg virtue weep Whilst winds wise wretched wyll youth
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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.