The poetical works of Matthew Prior, with memoir and critical dissertation by G. Gilfillan, Pagina 1151858 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior: With Memoir and Critical Dissertation Matthew Prior Fragmentweergave - 1879 |
The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, With Memoir and Critical Dissertation ... Matthew Prior Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2023 |
The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, with Memoir and Critical Dissertation ... Matthew Prior Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abra Alma arms beauteous beauty Belgia bless breast breath charms Cloe Columbo command confessed crowned cruel Cupid dart dear death delight Derry Dick dread e'er Earl of Dorset earth Elizabeth Rowe Emma eyes fair fame fate favour fear flame glorious glory goddess grace Greece grief hand happy hast heart Heaven hero honour hope Hudibras Jove king labour light live look Lord Lucretius lyre maid MATTHEW PRIOR mighty mind mourn Muse Namur ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er obey pain passion peace plain pleasure poet poor praise pride queen quoth rage reign rise sighs sing smiling song sorrow soul St John's College tears tell thee things thou thought throne toil triumph truth twas Venus verse virtue vows ween weep Whilst William wings wise wound wretched youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 327 - And the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house.
Pagina 296 - 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.
Pagina 273 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Pagina 327 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Pagina 273 - 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.
Pagina 215 - And, finishing its act, exists no more : Thus in obedience to what heaven decrees, Knowledge shall fail, and prophecy shall cease ; But lasting Charity's more ample sway, Nor bound by time, nor subject to decay, In happy triumph shall for ever live, And endless good diffuse, and endless praise receive.
Pagina 273 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Pagina 139 - Mov'd in the orb, pleas'd with the chimes, The foolish creature thinks he climbs: But here or there, turn wood or wire, He never gets two inches higher. So fares it with those merry blades, That frisk it under Pindus
Pagina 214 - Not soon provoked, she easily forgives, And much she suffers, as she much believes. Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives ; She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives ; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.
Pagina 86 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.