The Poetical Works of Matthew PriorJ. Nichol, 1858 - 475 pagina's |
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Abra Alma arms beauteous beauty Belgia bless breast breath charms Cloe Columbo command confessed crowned cruel Cupid darts 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 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 panegyric 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
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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.
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 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 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 273 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever : nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it : and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Pagina 297 - For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man ? as the fool.
Pagina 256 - I'll proceed. Proceed ? quoth DICK : Sir, I aver, You have already gone too far. When People once are in the Wrong ; Each Line they add, is much too long. Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his Way.
Pagina 215 - Then constant Faith and holy hope shall die, One lost in certainty, and one in joy...
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.