English odes, selected by E.W. Gosse |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 18 találatból.
45. oldal
... the tree ! His gracious hands , ne'er stretched but to do good , Are nailed to the infamous wood ; And sinful man does fondly bind The arms which He extends to embrace all human kind . IV . Unhappy Man , canst thou stand by and COWLEY . 45.
... the tree ! His gracious hands , ne'er stretched but to do good , Are nailed to the infamous wood ; And sinful man does fondly bind The arms which He extends to embrace all human kind . IV . Unhappy Man , canst thou stand by and COWLEY . 45.
63. oldal
... arms With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms . The double double double beat Of the thundering drum Cries , hark ! the foes come ; Charge , charge , ' tis too late to retreat . IV . The soft complaining flute In dying notes ...
... arms With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms . The double double double beat Of the thundering drum Cries , hark ! the foes come ; Charge , charge , ' tis too late to retreat . IV . The soft complaining flute In dying notes ...
83. oldal
... arm'd these rocks , then show'd old Jove Of Marli wood the wondrous plan . Such walls , these three wise gods agreed , By human force could ne'er be shaken ; But you and I in Homer read Of gods , as well as men , mistaken . Sambre and ...
... arm'd these rocks , then show'd old Jove Of Marli wood the wondrous plan . Such walls , these three wise gods agreed , By human force could ne'er be shaken ; But you and I in Homer read Of gods , as well as men , mistaken . Sambre and ...
85. oldal
... arm exerts the pow'r , To keep ev'n Mons's victor under : And that same Jupiter no more Shall fright the world with impious thunder . Our King thus trembles at Namur , Whilst Villeroy , who ne'er afraid is , To Bruxelles marches on ...
... arm exerts the pow'r , To keep ev'n Mons's victor under : And that same Jupiter no more Shall fright the world with impious thunder . Our King thus trembles at Namur , Whilst Villeroy , who ne'er afraid is , To Bruxelles marches on ...
93. oldal
... arms , bricks and fire : Leave ' em behind you , honest friend : And with your country - men retire . Your ode is spoilt , Namur is freed ; For Dixmuyd something yet is due ; So good Count Guiscard may proceed ; But Boufflers , Sir ...
... arms , bricks and fire : Leave ' em behind you , honest friend : And with your country - men retire . Your ode is spoilt , Namur is freed ; For Dixmuyd something yet is due ; So good Count Guiscard may proceed ; But Boufflers , Sir ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
angel ANNE KILLIGREW antistrophe Bacchus beneath blessed bliss Boileau bower breath bright CHORUS clouds crown curious fools dark death deep delight divine dost doth dreadful dreams e'er ears earth echo ring epode eternal eyes fair fair music fame fate fear fire flowers foes France glory golden goodly grace hand happy harmony hast hath hear heard heart heaven heavenly holy honour Hyades Hymen kings leave les leopards les monceaux light loud lovely band lyre maid melodious mighty mortal mourn Muse Namur ne'er night numbers nymphs o'er pain Pindar pleasure poem poet praise quire round sacred Sambre sighed and looked sing skies sleep soft solemn song soul sound spirit star sung sweet tears thee thine things thou thought throne Timotheus unto vermil verse voice waves winds wings woods may answer woods them answer
Népszerű szakaszok
218. oldal - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
183. oldal - Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower: Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view...
65. oldal - Now strike the golden lyre again ; A louder yet, and yet a louder strain. Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark, the horrid sound Has raised up his head ; As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
185. oldal - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
219. oldal - But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose, Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave, Or on the wealth of globed peonies ; Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows, Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave, And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.
101. oldal - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood. Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
207. oldal - My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
22. oldal - This is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
208. oldal - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
67. oldal - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down.