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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... live . And yet he penned some of the finest and most touching epigrams in the Anthology . Witness the following on ... lives we haste . Call not the years thine own that made thee gray , That left their wrinkles and have fled away ; The ...
... live . And yet he penned some of the finest and most touching epigrams in the Anthology . Witness the following on ... lives we haste . Call not the years thine own that made thee gray , That left their wrinkles and have fled away ; The ...
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... of his epigrams are unpresentable . The following is humorous , and might be justly applied to many young men of the present day ( Book II . 161 ) : Sir , can you tell where young Pandorus lives , xxviii INTRODUCTION .
... of his epigrams are unpresentable . The following is humorous , and might be justly applied to many young men of the present day ( Book II . 161 ) : Sir , can you tell where young Pandorus lives , xxviii INTRODUCTION .
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... lives , That was surnamed here the prodigal : He that so much for his silk stockings gives , Till nought is left to buy him shoes withal ? Oh blame him not , to make what show he can , How should be else be thought a Gentleman ? Thomas ...
... lives , That was surnamed here the prodigal : He that so much for his silk stockings gives , Till nought is left to buy him shoes withal ? Oh blame him not , to make what show he can , How should be else be thought a Gentleman ? Thomas ...
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... a bunch of keys by her side , her finger on her lips , and a dove on her head . On the frame is a Latin inscription , believed to be by Sir Thomas More , which has been thus translated : Be frugal , ye wives , live in silence and SAPPHO .
... a bunch of keys by her side , her finger on her lips , and a dove on her head . On the frame is a Latin inscription , believed to be by Sir Thomas More , which has been thus translated : Be frugal , ye wives , live in silence and SAPPHO .
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... live in silence and love , Nor abroad ever gossip and roam ! This learn from the keys , the lips , and the dove , And tortoise still dwelling at home . CLEOBULUS . Flourished B.c. 586. He was Tyrant of Lindus , and one of the Seven ...
... live in silence and love , Nor abroad ever gossip and roam ! This learn from the keys , the lips , and the dove , And tortoise still dwelling at home . CLEOBULUS . Flourished B.c. 586. He was Tyrant of Lindus , and one of the Seven ...
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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