Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, Edições 77-79 |
O que estão dizendo - Escrever uma resenha
Não encontramos nenhuma resenha nos lugares comuns.
Termos e frases comuns
Addison admire appear arms bear beauty blood bold born bright Cæsar Cato cause charms death delight earth ev'ry eyes face fair fame fate father fear fire flow fools force gave give gods grace grow hand happy head hear heart heaven honour hope Italy Juba kind king learning less light live look Lord lost Lucia Marcia mighty mind move Muse nature never o'er once passion pleasure poet poor Portius praise prince remains rest rich rise Rome round rules scenes sense shade shine sight sleep soon soul sound stand stream sweet Syph tears thee thine things thou thought true turn verse virtue whole winds wise wonder write young youth
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 26 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble...
Página 22 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Página 84 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 24 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
Página 21 - 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.
Página 23 - And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — the style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found...
Página 23 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 21 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 9 - A watchtower once ; but now, so fate ordains. Of all the pile an empty name remains. From its...
Página 6 - CREATOR spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come visit every pious mind ; Come pour thy joys on human kind ; From sin and sorrow set us free, And make thy temples worthy thee.
Informações bibliográficas
| Título | Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, Edições 77-79 Volume 77 de Lit. misc Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, Abraham Cowley Volume 7 de Works of the English poets from Chaucer to Cowper |
| Autor | Abraham Cowley |
| Editora | Johnson, 1810 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 8 dez. 2006 |
| Num. págs. | 220 páginas |
| Exportar citação | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |