The Poetical WorksGeorg Olms Verlag |
Contents
Hesiod or The Rise of Woman | 53 |
1 | 75 |
Song When thy beauty appears | 15 |
22 | 22 |
The Vigil of Venus written in the time of Julius | 33 |
Frogs and Mice Book I | 53 |
A Translation of part of the First Canto of the Rape | 71 |
The Flies an Eclogue | 77 |
An Imitation of some French Verses | 91 |
A Hymn to Contentment | 97 |
Piety or The Vision | 110 |
Dr Donnes Third Satire versified | 119 |
On Bishop Burnets being set on Fire in his Closet | 125 |
Common terms and phrases
ancient appear Arbuthnot Aristophanes Armoric King Bacchus beauty beneath breath bright Callimachus charms Comus Cras amet cried critic death delight envy eyes fair fame fancy fate flies flowers frogs genius gentle give glory goddess gods Goldsmith grace grave green grove hand head heart Hesiod Homer honour Iliad Jove king learning Let those love light Lord Bolingbroke Lord Treasurer Lycophron manner mice mind mouse Muse nature never lov'd numquam amavit Nymphs o'er Ovid Parnell's pass'd plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise Preluding music quique amavit racter rise rising song round sacred says Scriblerus Club seem'd shade shine silent sing Sir John Parnell smile soft song soul speak sweet Swift thee thine Thomas Parnell thou thought tion translation truth Twas vale verses wind write young youth Zoilus
Popular passages
Page 73 - Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Page 100 - The pair arrive ; the liveried servants wait, Their lord receives them at the pompous gate ; The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they drown, Deep sunk in sleep, and silk, and heaps of down.
Page 61 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Page 1 - scape from flattery to wit. Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear (A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear...
Page 72 - And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Page 15 - I want you, and that however your business may depend upon any other, my business depends entirely upon you, and yet still I hope you will find your man, even though I lose you the mean while. At this time the more I love you, the more I can spare you ; which alone will, I dare say, be a reason to you, to let me have you back the sooner.
Page 54 - ... and is no longer affected by it. When I read an epigram of Martial, the first line recalls the whole, and I have no pleasure in repeating to myself what I know already. But each line, each word in Catullus, has its merit; and I am never tired with the perusal of him. It is sufficient to run over Cowley once; but Parnell, after the fiftieth reading, is as fresh as at the first.
Page 15 - SONG. WHEN thy beauty appears, In its graces and airs, All bright as an angel new dropt from the sky ; At distance I gaze, and am...
Page 10 - He wanted that evenness of disposition which bears disappointment with phlegm, and joy with indifference. He was ever very much elated or depressed and his whole life was spent in agony or rapture.