The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times. With Notes, Observations, Illustrations, and an IntroductionBell and Daldy, 1870 - 587 Seiten |
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... epigrammatic character will be found , although they cannot be strictly referred to any model . Some of the epigrams are well known . I have not considered this a reason for omitting them , except in the case of a few of PREFACE . ix.
... epigrammatic character will be found , although they cannot be strictly referred to any model . Some of the epigrams are well known . I have not considered this a reason for omitting them , except in the case of a few of PREFACE . ix.
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... known under the general name of epigram . A selection from the epigrams of each author is placed under his name ; others are scattered through the work for comparison or illustration . All can be readily found by means of the Index ...
... known under the general name of epigram . A selection from the epigrams of each author is placed under his name ; others are scattered through the work for comparison or illustration . All can be readily found by means of the Index ...
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... known works of their authors , or in the editions of the British poets , known as Bell's , Johnson's , and Chalmers ' . The Introduction contains a brief sketch of epigrammatic literature from the earliest times . My own views of the ...
... known works of their authors , or in the editions of the British poets , known as Bell's , Johnson's , and Chalmers ' . The Introduction contains a brief sketch of epigrammatic literature from the earliest times . My own views of the ...
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... this let a well - known and worthless modern epi- gram be compared , on James Moore , or More , who was not averse to wear the bays belonging to others : Moore always smiles whenever he recites ; He smiles , INTRODUCTION.
... this let a well - known and worthless modern epi- gram be compared , on James Moore , or More , who was not averse to wear the bays belonging to others : Moore always smiles whenever he recites ; He smiles , INTRODUCTION.
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... known . The study of Greek , too , was much neglected , and from many of those who could read Martial , the epigrams of the Greeks were locked up in an unknown tongue . Thus it came to pass that , from want of acquaintance with the ...
... known . The study of Greek , too , was much neglected , and from many of those who could read Martial , the epigrams of the Greeks were locked up in an unknown tongue . Thus it came to pass that , from want of acquaintance with the ...
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Seite 214 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Seite 237 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
Seite 160 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Seite 458 - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body...
Seite 166 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly; These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play; But I have that within which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Seite 267 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Seite 213 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Seite 202 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Seite 330 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Seite 539 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear : — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not ' Good night ' — but in some brighter clime Bid me