The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern TimesG. Bell and sons, 1875 - Всего страниц: 695 |
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... heaven ! The gods to me my lot have given . That lot , for good or ill , I'll bear , And for no other man's I care . Archilochus was contemporary with Gyges , whose wealth , like that of Croesus , early passed into a proverb . Spenser ...
... heaven ! The gods to me my lot have given . That lot , for good or ill , I'll bear , And for no other man's I care . Archilochus was contemporary with Gyges , whose wealth , like that of Croesus , early passed into a proverb . Spenser ...
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... heaven aspired ; Or huge colosses , built with costlie paine ; Or brasen pillours , never to be fired ; To make their memories for ever live : For how can mortall immortalitie give ? * * * * All such vaine moniments of earthlie masse ...
... heaven aspired ; Or huge colosses , built with costlie paine ; Or brasen pillours , never to be fired ; To make their memories for ever live : For how can mortall immortalitie give ? * * * * All such vaine moniments of earthlie masse ...
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... Heaven bestows To alleviate human woes , When the wearied heart despairs Of a respite from its cares ; These and every true delight Flourish only in thy sight ; And the Sister Graces three Owe themselves their youth to thee ; Without ...
... Heaven bestows To alleviate human woes , When the wearied heart despairs Of a respite from its cares ; These and every true delight Flourish only in thy sight ; And the Sister Graces three Owe themselves their youth to thee ; Without ...
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... heaven , Having some business , do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return . And again , Juliet passionately cries ( Act III . sc . 2 ) : Give me my Romeo : and when he shall die , Take him and cut him out in ...
... heaven , Having some business , do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return . And again , Juliet passionately cries ( Act III . sc . 2 ) : Give me my Romeo : and when he shall die , Take him and cut him out in ...
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... heaven's high cope Fortune is God - all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you . THE LIGHT OF BEAUTY UNQUENCHED IN DEATH ( Jacobs I. 106 , xxi . ) . Translated by Shelley . Thou wert the morning star among Ere thy fair ...
... heaven's high cope Fortune is God - all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you . THE LIGHT OF BEAUTY UNQUENCHED IN DEATH ( Jacobs I. 106 , xxi . ) . Translated by Shelley . Thou wert the morning star among Ere thy fair ...
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Стр. 397 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage; or when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Стр. 432 - O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 34 - Ay me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?