The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 |
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... hast seen Of cities and of courts , of books and men , And deign to let thy servant hold thy pen . This passage alludes to some trifles which he had sent to Q. Anne . Through ages thus I might presume to live , And xlvi APPENDIX .
... hast seen Of cities and of courts , of books and men , And deign to let thy servant hold thy pen . This passage alludes to some trifles which he had sent to Q. Anne . Through ages thus I might presume to live , And xlvi APPENDIX .
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... hast thou thought enough to prove thou art ; Yet steel'd with studied boldness , thou dar'st try To send thy doubting reason's dazzled eye Through the mysterious gulf of vast immensity . Much thou canst there discern , much thence ...
... hast thou thought enough to prove thou art ; Yet steel'd with studied boldness , thou dar'st try To send thy doubting reason's dazzled eye Through the mysterious gulf of vast immensity . Much thou canst there discern , much thence ...
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... hast , my dear , undoubted right To triumph o'er this destin'd breast . My reason bends to what thy eyes ordain : For I was born to love , and thou to reign . the principal part of his knowledge in the art of painting : " He painted ...
... hast , my dear , undoubted right To triumph o'er this destin'd breast . My reason bends to what thy eyes ordain : For I was born to love , and thou to reign . the principal part of his knowledge in the art of painting : " He painted ...
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... hast seen The greatest prince , the brightest queen , That ever sav'd a land , or blest a throne , Since first thy beams were spread , or genial power was known . So may thy godhead be confest , So the returning year be blest , As his ...
... hast seen The greatest prince , the brightest queen , That ever sav'd a land , or blest a throne , Since first thy beams were spread , or genial power was known . So may thy godhead be confest , So the returning year be blest , As his ...
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... hast none . Vanquish again ; though she be gone , Whose garland crown'd the victor's hair ; And reign , though she has left the throne , Who made thy glory worth thy care . Fair Britain never yet before Breath'd to her king a useless ...
... hast none . Vanquish again ; though she be gone , Whose garland crown'd the victor's hair ; And reign , though she has left the throne , Who made thy glory worth thy care . Fair Britain never yet before Breath'd to her king a useless ...
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Էջ 109 - tis his fancy to run. At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come; No matter what beauties I saw in my way, They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
Էջ 104 - Ah me ! the blooming pride of May And that of Beauty are but one : At morn both flourish, bright and gay, Both fade at evening, pale and gone.
Էջ 172 - Dear Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There, Thomas, did'st thou never see ('Tis but by way of Simile !) A squirrel spend his little rage, In jumping round a rolling cage ? The cage, as either side...
Էջ 180 - I am the knyght ; I come by nyght, As secret as I can ; Sayinge, Alas ! thus standeth the case, I am a banyshed man.
Էջ 40 - In vain you tell your parting lover, You wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas! what winds can happy prove, That bear me far from what I love? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows, and cold disdain?
Էջ 204 - Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea ; While gentle zephyrs play in prosperous gales, And fortune's favour fills the swelling sails ; 3»» But would forsake the ship, and make the shore, When the winds whistle, and the tempests roar...
Էջ 103 - explain This change of humour : pry'thee tell : That falling tear — what does it mean ?" She sigh'd : she smiled : and to the flowers Pointing, the lovely moralist said : " See ! friend, in some few fleeting hours, See yonder, what a change is made. " Ah me, the blooming pride of May, And that of Beauty are but one ; At morn both flourish bright and gay, Both fade at evening, pale, and gone.
Էջ 133 - Whate'er thy countrymen have done, By law and wit, by sword and gun, In thee is faithfully recited ; And all the living world that view Thy work, give thee the praises due, At once instructed and delighted. ' " Yet for the fame of all these deeds, What beggar in the Invalides, With lameness broke, with blindness smitten, Wished ever decently to die, To have been either Mezeray, Or any monarch he has written?
Էջ 240 - ... rolling threescore years and one Did round this globe their courses run, If human things went ill or well, If changing empires rose or fell, The morning past, the evening came, And found this couple still the same. They...
Էջ 44 - Our anxious pains we, all the day, In search of what we like, employ : Scorning at night the worthless prey, We find the labour gave the joy.