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 pages |
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... Born at Syracuse . Flourished B.C. 330. Celebrated as a writer of comedy . He lived , it is said , to the great age of 101 years . INDULGING SORROW USELESS ( Philem . Frag . p . 328 ) . Translated by C. If tears to pain could bring ...
... Born at Syracuse . Flourished B.C. 330. Celebrated as a writer of comedy . He lived , it is said , to the great age of 101 years . INDULGING SORROW USELESS ( Philem . Frag . p . 328 ) . Translated by C. If tears to pain could bring ...
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... born at Athens , and was held in the highest estimation as a writer of Comedy . GREEK TOMBS ( Menandri Reliq . Ed . Amstel , 1709 , p . 276 ) . Translated by C. Go to the road - side graves thyself to know , Muse on the bones and dust ...
... born at Athens , and was held in the highest estimation as a writer of Comedy . GREEK TOMBS ( Menandri Reliq . Ed . Amstel , 1709 , p . 276 ) . Translated by C. Go to the road - side graves thyself to know , Muse on the bones and dust ...
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... born at Locri , in Italy . She flourished about B.C. 320 . ON THE STATUE OF A DAUGHTER ( Jacobs I. 128 , vii . ) . Translated by D. This breathing image shows Melinna's grace , Her own sweet form I see - her speaking face ; The mother's ...
... born at Locri , in Italy . She flourished about B.C. 320 . ON THE STATUE OF A DAUGHTER ( Jacobs I. 128 , vii . ) . Translated by D. This breathing image shows Melinna's grace , Her own sweet form I see - her speaking face ; The mother's ...
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... born ; from thence thus argue I , If to be born be bad , ' tis good to die . Lear says ( " King Lear , " Act IV . sc . 6 ) : When we are born , we cry , that we are come To this great stage of fools . ON ALEXANDER OF MACEDON ( Jacobs II ...
... born ; from thence thus argue I , If to be born be bad , ' tis good to die . Lear says ( " King Lear , " Act IV . sc . 6 ) : When we are born , we cry , that we are come To this great stage of fools . ON ALEXANDER OF MACEDON ( Jacobs II ...
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... born about 1500 , which contains the same thought as that of Rufinus : Enjoy the sweets of life's luxuriant May , Ere envious age is hastening on his way , With snowy wreaths to crown the beauteous brow : The rose will fade when storms ...
... born about 1500 , which contains the same thought as that of Rufinus : Enjoy the sweets of life's luxuriant May , Ere envious age is hastening on his way , With snowy wreaths to crown the beauteous brow : The rose will fade when storms ...
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Page 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?
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 330 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Page 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