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Page 14
... semble conserver les deux lois de la rime et de la mesure que pour les violer à chaque instant . The rules a nation , born to serve , obeys ; And Boileau still in right of Horace sways . But we , brave Britons , foreign laws despis'd ...
... semble conserver les deux lois de la rime et de la mesure que pour les violer à chaque instant . The rules a nation , born to serve , obeys ; And Boileau still in right of Horace sways . But we , brave Britons , foreign laws despis'd ...
Page 37
... semble que mon cœur se dissout dans ses charmes , et que je suis étroitement serré dans ses bras . Alors , dans de doux songes , nos âmes se fondaient de plaisir , et nous nous donnions en dormant l'humide baiser . L'autre expression à ...
... semble que mon cœur se dissout dans ses charmes , et que je suis étroitement serré dans ses bras . Alors , dans de doux songes , nos âmes se fondaient de plaisir , et nous nous donnions en dormant l'humide baiser . L'autre expression à ...
Page 71
... semble prendre un essor pour monter à la seconde . J'ajouterai que l'une promet la saillie , l'autre la donne : On her white breast | a sparkling cross she wore Which jews might kiss | and infidels adore , Her lively looks a sprightly ...
... semble prendre un essor pour monter à la seconde . J'ajouterai que l'une promet la saillie , l'autre la donne : On her white breast | a sparkling cross she wore Which jews might kiss | and infidels adore , Her lively looks a sprightly ...
Page 98
... semble avoir quelque chose de surna- turel comme les moyens qu'il emploie , et tenir de la divinité qui y joue toujours un si grand rôle . Ce chef - d'œuvre de l'esprit humain ne brille qu'une fois en deux ou trois siècles , et n ...
... semble avoir quelque chose de surna- turel comme les moyens qu'il emploie , et tenir de la divinité qui y joue toujours un si grand rôle . Ce chef - d'œuvre de l'esprit humain ne brille qu'une fois en deux ou trois siècles , et n ...
Page 103
... semble que la première tra- duction est plus rapide , plus harmo- nieuse , plus poétique ; mais , en anglais , quel rythme enchanteur ! quelle harmo- nie imitative dans ce vers : The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast ! Dans la ...
... semble que la première tra- duction est plus rapide , plus harmo- nieuse , plus poétique ; mais , en anglais , quel rythme enchanteur ! quelle harmo- nie imitative dans ce vers : The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast ! Dans la ...
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aimable Almanach des Muses Ambrose Philips amour art poétique Atrides auteur ballades beauté beaux behold belle blushes Boileau breast brille Butler canto chante charmes citer cœur composé COWLEY dame delight Delille desirs douce doux Dryden églogues élégie épître essay ev'ry eyes fable fears fire first genre great hand hardie hear heart heaven héroïde Hoole Iliad imitative Imogine j'ai Johnson Kelh kind l'amour l'anglais l'art l'épître lady langue lays light little look lord love Lyttleton maid make melting Milton mind muse never night nymphe o'er odes once ouvrage paradise lost PARNELL passage pastorales pensées Philips Pindare plaisir poëme épique poésie poëte lauréat poëtes anglais poétique poetry Pope pow'r prologue prose prosodie rime sage satire Shadwell Shenstone sigh smiles soft soul spring style sweet SWIFT syllabes sylphes tears tems tender hearts tendre THOMSON thou thought traduction Virgile voice of love Voltaire Whig write yeux
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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...