Poems on Several Occasionsauthor, 1736 - 412 من الصفحات |
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Poems on Several Occasions (Classic Reprint) <span dir=ltr>Samuel Wesley</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 2017 |
Poems on Several Occasions (Classic Reprint) <span dir=ltr>Samuel Wesley</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 2017 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Againſt antient baſe becauſe beſt boaſt Breaſt Buſineſs caft Cauſe Cobler Confcience Courſe dear Death defcending defire Divine e'er Earth Eaſe EPIGRAM erft ev'ry Eyes facred faid fair Faith Fame Fate Father fear fhall fhould fince fing fingle firſt flain Foes fome Fools foon fought Friends FROGS ftill fuch fure Glory Gold Goſpel Heav'n himſelf Honour Iliad JAMES OGLETHORPE join'd Jove King Lady MARGARET HARLEY laſt lefs liv'd loft Lord loſe Love Marriage MICE mortal moſt muft muſt ne'er never Numbers o'er Pain paſt PELEUS pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r Praiſe Prelate preſent Pride publick raiſe Reaſon rife riſe ſay ſee ſeems ſeen Senſe ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhow ſhow'd ſhown Song Soul ſtay ſtill Thee Thefe themſelves theſe thoſe Thou Thouſands Throne Truth uſeful utmoſt Verſe vex'd Virtue Whofe Whoſe Wife Wiſdom Wiſh Wretch yield Youth
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 345 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
الصفحة 134 - Which heaven and earth amaze ? Wherefore do earthquakes cleave the ground ? Why hides the sun his rays ? 2 Well may the earth astonish'd shake, And nature sympathize ! The sun as darkest night be black ! Their Maker, Jesus, dies...
الصفحة 135 - tis he, My Saviour and my God ! 4 For me these pangs his soul assail, For me this death is borne ; My sins gave sharpness to the nail, And pointed every thorn.
الصفحة 46 - So blooms the human face divine, When youth its pride of beauty shows ; Fairer than spring the colours shine, And sweeter than the virgin ros.e.
الصفحة 99 - WHAT man, in his wits, had not rather be poor, Than for lucre his freedom to give! Ever busy the means of his life to secure; And so ever neglecting to live!
الصفحة 204 - You fcarce would fleer as now you do ; I doubt your Guts would grumble too : 'Still do you laugh ? I tell you, Sir, I'd kick you foundly, could I ftir : Thou...
الصفحة 211 - He'd ne'er fet Foot within his Door, And jump down open Throats no more :• No ; while he liv'd, he'd ne'er again Run, like a Fox* down the Red Lane. Our Patient thus, his Inmate gone, Cur'd of the Crotchets in his Crown, Joyful his Gratitude...
الصفحة 60 - See him, when starv'd to Death and turn'd to Dust, Presented with a Monumental Bust ! The Poet's Fate is here in Emblem shown; He ask'd for Bread, and he receiv'da Stone. SAMUEL WESLEY (1691-1739), 'On the Setting Up of Mr Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey...
الصفحة 201 - Pow'r to tafte his Happinefs. Too near, alas! this great Man's Hall A merry Cobler had a Stall; An arch old Wag as e'er you knew, With Breeches red, and Jerkin blue; Chearful at Working, as at Play, He fung and whittled Life away: When rifing Morning glads the Sky, .-.-, * f* Clear as the merry Lark, and high ; When Evening Shades the Landskip veil, Late warbling as the Nightingale. Tho' Pence came flow, and Trade was ill.
الصفحة 79 - From the Greek. A BLOOMING youth lies buried here ; Euphemius, to his country dear : Nature adorn'd his mind and face With ev'ry muse and ev'ry grace : Prepar'd the marriage state to prove, But Death had quicker wings than Love.