Rhyme the Leading Principle of Latin Versification,or A Few Plain Arguments and Examples Illustrating Our Ignorance of the Poetry of the Romans1829 - 20 Seiten |
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Seite 3 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Seite 6 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Seite 5 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Seite 5 - Or friends by him self-banish'd ; for his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary, and chose For its own cruel sacrifice, the kind, 'Gainst whom he raged with fury strange and blind.
Seite 5 - Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched; yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts, a heavenly hue Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they past The eyes, which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast.
Seite 11 - Dixisse fertur Simius sententiam : Tu non videris perdidisse, quod petis ; Te credo surripuisse, quod pulchre negas.
Seite 9 - Lavini 270 transferet, et longam multa vi muniet Albam. hie jam ter centum totos regnabitur annos gente sub Hectorea, donee regina sacerdos, Marte gravis, geminam partu dabit Ilia prolem.
Seite 14 - Quanto labore partum : porro autem Geta Ferietur alio munere, ubi hera pepererit; Porro autem alio, ubi erit puero natalis dies, Ubi initiabunt : omne hoc mater auferet. Puer causa erit mittundi : sed videon
Seite 10 - Was nevere wiht in this worlde, that wisse me couthe Wher that he longede, lasse ne more Til hit by-ful on a Frydayc, two frères ich mette Maisteres of menours, men of grete witte Ich hailsede* hem hendelyche, as ich hadde ylernede...