The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 6. kötetJohn & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - 1157 oldal |
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iii. oldal
... reason , no fellowship in the college . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to guess : had he thought himself injured he knew how to complain . It was not till the death of Cromwell , in 1658 , that he became a ...
... reason , no fellowship in the college . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to guess : had he thought himself injured he knew how to complain . It was not till the death of Cromwell , in 1658 , that he became a ...
vi. oldal
... reason in verse , and published his celebrated Poem , intituled the Hind and Panther , in 1687 , which was fuccessfully ridiculed in the " City Mouse and Country Moufe , " a parody written by Montague , afterwards Earl of Halifax , and ...
... reason in verse , and published his celebrated Poem , intituled the Hind and Panther , in 1687 , which was fuccessfully ridiculed in the " City Mouse and Country Moufe , " a parody written by Montague , afterwards Earl of Halifax , and ...
viii. oldal
... justify them to you , I know your's are far different . For the fame reason , I shall say nothing of my principles of state ; I believe you in your's follow the dictates of your reafon , as I , in mine , viii THE LIFE OF DRYDEN .
... justify them to you , I know your's are far different . For the fame reason , I shall say nothing of my principles of state ; I believe you in your's follow the dictates of your reafon , as I , in mine , viii THE LIFE OF DRYDEN .
13. oldal
... any uation : the resolution and fucceffes of them never can be . Never had prince or people more mutual reason to love each other , if suffering for each other can endear affection . You have come together a pair of matchlefs.
... any uation : the resolution and fucceffes of them never can be . Never had prince or people more mutual reason to love each other , if suffering for each other can endear affection . You have come together a pair of matchlefs.
69. oldal
... reason , but he has been pleased to descend to us ; and what So- states faid of him , what Plato writ , and the reft of the heathen philofophers of feveral nations , is all no more than the twilight of revelation , after the fun of it ...
... reason , but he has been pleased to descend to us ; and what So- states faid of him , what Plato writ , and the reft of the heathen philofophers of feveral nations , is all no more than the twilight of revelation , after the fun of it ...
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168. oldal - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
264. oldal - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
147. oldal - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
106. oldal - These gross, half-animated lumps I leave; Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive. But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire: Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; So drossy, so divisible are...
41. oldal - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
233. oldal - Lycurgus came, the surly king of Thrace ; Black was his beard, and manly was his face: The balls of his broad eyes...
133. oldal - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted...
215. oldal - I have presumed farther in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for want of words in the beginning of our language.
176. oldal - MARS. Inspire the vocal brass, inspire ; The world is past its infant age : Arms and honour, Arms and honour, Set the martial mind on fire, And kindle manly rage. Mars has look'd the sky to red ; And Peace, the lazy good, is fled.