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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... Writing , " in the " Collection of Epigrams , " 1735 , says of the Greek epigrams : " They are only capable of giving ... written . But even the French wits , if they had deigned to examine the Anthology with any attention , might have ...
... Writing , " in the " Collection of Epigrams , " 1735 , says of the Greek epigrams : " They are only capable of giving ... written . But even the French wits , if they had deigned to examine the Anthology with any attention , might have ...
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... written less , he would , perhaps , have been even more famous than he is , for he is apt to reproduce himself , and ... writing of Latin epigrams never gained a firm hold in Great Britain . When to More and Owen have been added the ...
... written less , he would , perhaps , have been even more famous than he is , for he is apt to reproduce himself , and ... writing of Latin epigrams never gained a firm hold in Great Britain . When to More and Owen have been added the ...
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... written in Latin as well as English , is a specimen . It is applic- able to other times besides those in which it was written ( Bishop's " Works , " 1796 , I. 311 ) : " Do this , " cries one side of S. xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
... written in Latin as well as English , is a specimen . It is applic- able to other times besides those in which it was written ( Bishop's " Works , " 1796 , I. 311 ) : " Do this , " cries one side of S. xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
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... writing . They are like the cankered blossom of a noble tree upon which the blight has settled . Towards the close of the ... written with purity and taste , and to their epigrammatic writings the appeal must be made against any general ...
... writing . They are like the cankered blossom of a noble tree upon which the blight has settled . Towards the close of the ... written with purity and taste , and to their epigrammatic writings the appeal must be made against any general ...
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... writing is much to be lamented . For two reasons in particular . First , as a loss in a literary point of view . There is no class of poetry which displays more prominently the taste and skill of the poet . It is far from being an easy ...
... writing is much to be lamented . For two reasons in particular . First , as a loss in a literary point of view . There is no class of poetry which displays more prominently the taste and skill of the poet . It is far from being an easy ...
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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