Poésie, versification [etcde l'Imprimerie de Valade; et se trouve chez T. Barrois fils, 1806 - 429 pages |
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Page 71
... never once offends . POPE , the rape of the lock . Le second genre de pause , celui où elle suit la cinquième syllabe et partage le vers en deux parties égales . Le vers alors perd sa vivacité ; il devient plus * Sur son sein blanc elle ...
... never once offends . POPE , the rape of the lock . Le second genre de pause , celui où elle suit la cinquième syllabe et partage le vers en deux parties égales . Le vers alors perd sa vivacité ; il devient plus * Sur son sein blanc elle ...
Page 92
... never yet a daring thought was found ; But counted feet is poesy defin'd . And starv'd conceits that chill the reader's mind , A little sense in many words imply , And drag in loitering numbers slowly by . * Ils abondent ces vers où ...
... never yet a daring thought was found ; But counted feet is poesy defin'd . And starv'd conceits that chill the reader's mind , A little sense in many words imply , And drag in loitering numbers slowly by . * Ils abondent ces vers où ...
Page 127
... never touch'd that herb till they were dead ; Yet no man lards salt pork with orange - peel , Or garnishes his lamb with pitchcock'd eel . * KING . De ces quatre débuts , je préférerais * qui , si ce n'était l'abondance et le fumet ...
... never touch'd that herb till they were dead ; Yet no man lards salt pork with orange - peel , Or garnishes his lamb with pitchcock'd eel . * KING . De ces quatre débuts , je préférerais * qui , si ce n'était l'abondance et le fumet ...
Page 130
... never with hard sounds the ear affrights . * DRYDEN , art of poetry , canto z . Voici un passage où Dryden me paraît plus heureux , parce qu'il est plus fidèle : Travaillez à loisir , quelqu'ordre qui vous presse , Et ne vous piquez ...
... never with hard sounds the ear affrights . * DRYDEN , art of poetry , canto z . Voici un passage où Dryden me paraît plus heureux , parce qu'il est plus fidèle : Travaillez à loisir , quelqu'ordre qui vous presse , Et ne vous piquez ...
Page 131
... never work in haste , And value not yourself for writing fast . A rapid poem with such fury writ Shews want of judgment , not abounding wit . More pleas'd we are to see a river lead His gentle streams along a flowerý mead , Than from ...
... never work in haste , And value not yourself for writing fast . A rapid poem with such fury writ Shews want of judgment , not abounding wit . More pleas'd we are to see a river lead His gentle streams along a flowerý mead , Than from ...
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Page 285 - Go, lovely Rose — Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 134 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 211 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Page 71 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Page 221 - Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid; They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires ; The virgin's wish without her fears impart, Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart, Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. Thou know'st how guiltless first I met thy flame. When Love approach'd me under Friendship's name; My fancy form'd thee of angelic kind, Some emanation of th
Page 194 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name : Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame...
Page 316 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart ; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage...
Page 200 - But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day...
Page 14 - The rules a nation, born to serve, obeys ; And Boileau still in right of Horace sways.
Page 174 - The fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care ; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign ; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine ; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her favourite Lock ; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. " To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...