Poëmes ou morceaux détachés de differens auteurs anglais, traduits en vers françaisde l'Imprimerie de Valade; et se trouve chez T. Barrois fils, 1806 - 429 pages |
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Page 13
... mortel ne tremblerait pas ? Auprès de vous l'amour ne lance Que des traits sûrs , toujours vainqueurs ; Votre voix amollit les cœurs , La flèche entre sans résistance . Tyran chéri , vainqueur charmant , Fière des captifs que vous ...
... mortel ne tremblerait pas ? Auprès de vous l'amour ne lance Que des traits sûrs , toujours vainqueurs ; Votre voix amollit les cœurs , La flèche entre sans résistance . Tyran chéri , vainqueur charmant , Fière des captifs que vous ...
Page 23
... mortel , Unir tant de pouvoir à tant de grandeur d'âme . Que faisait autrefois ce génie indompté ? Confondu parmi nous , fait pour le rang suprême , Le héros , déjà grand dans son obscurité , S'instruisait à régner en régnant sur lui ...
... mortel , Unir tant de pouvoir à tant de grandeur d'âme . Que faisait autrefois ce génie indompté ? Confondu parmi nous , fait pour le rang suprême , Le héros , déjà grand dans son obscurité , S'instruisait à régner en régnant sur lui ...
Page 81
... mortel aux cieux , Sur la terre elle attire un ange . Grand choeur : Mais Cécile parut , etc. LA VIE HUMAINE . OUI , tout est dans la vie illusion , mensonge ; Charmé de son erreur , l'homme encor la prolonge ; Trust on and think to ...
... mortel aux cieux , Sur la terre elle attire un ange . Grand choeur : Mais Cécile parut , etc. LA VIE HUMAINE . OUI , tout est dans la vie illusion , mensonge ; Charmé de son erreur , l'homme encor la prolonge ; Trust on and think to ...
Page 83
... je suis désabusé , Et je rougis de voir le mortel insensé User , perdre sa vie , épris d'une chimère , Jeune dans le délire , et vieux dans la misère . JOHN PHILIPS . THE SPLENDID SHILLING . HAPPY the man 6 * POÉTIQUE ANGLAISE . 83.
... je suis désabusé , Et je rougis de voir le mortel insensé User , perdre sa vie , épris d'une chimère , Jeune dans le délire , et vieux dans la misère . JOHN PHILIPS . THE SPLENDID SHILLING . HAPPY the man 6 * POÉTIQUE ANGLAISE . 83.
Page 123
... mortel fastueux , si fier de sa richesse , Croyait , par la splendeur , remplacer la sagesse ; » Mais , en perdant sa coupe , il perd sa vanité ; And forc'd his guests to morning draughts of wine , POÉTIQUE ANGLAISE . 123.
... mortel fastueux , si fier de sa richesse , Croyait , par la splendeur , remplacer la sagesse ; » Mais , en perdant sa coupe , il perd sa vanité ; And forc'd his guests to morning draughts of wine , POÉTIQUE ANGLAISE . 123.
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amant Amid amour arms attraits bear beauté BÉLINDE beneath Betty blest bliss breast breath bright brillant call CARDELIA charms ciel clouds cœur Damon dear death desire douce doux e'er earth envy époux ev'n ev'ry eyes fate fear femme find first flame friend full gave give good grace great hand head headlong hear heart heav'n hélas Hence high hope kind kindling know l'amour lady last life light look lost love lovely madame made make mastiff mind Musidore my breast my fancy nature's never night nymph o'er once pain plaisirs pleasing pleasure pleurs pow'r pride reason round scorn shade sigh SMILINDA soft soon soul sound strange stream stroke sweet take tears tendre their think thou thought thrice thro vanity virtue warm wings wish world wretch Xantippe young youth
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Page 200 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 38 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew: fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 186 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay: If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 78 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 330 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 376 - customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 4 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of...
Page 80 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Page 184 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Page 72 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes ! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...