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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Page xix
... fame to mere popular applause . The following , " On Demetrius , " is an example of his better style ( Book I. 102 , translated by Elphinston , with slight alteration ) : That hand , to all my labours once so true , Which I so loved ...
... fame to mere popular applause . The following , " On Demetrius , " is an example of his better style ( Book I. 102 , translated by Elphinston , with slight alteration ) : That hand , to all my labours once so true , Which I so loved ...
Page xxvi
... fame as an Epigrammatist must chiefly rest . These are exquisitely pure and beautiful . If they have a fault it is in the matter of length , which is beyond that of the earlier Greek epitaphs ; yet who would wish such perfect pieces to ...
... fame as an Epigrammatist must chiefly rest . These are exquisitely pure and beautiful . If they have a fault it is in the matter of length , which is beyond that of the earlier Greek epitaphs ; yet who would wish such perfect pieces to ...
Page xxvii
... fame , and their epigrams , having never been reprinted , are very scarce . It is diffi- cult to refer their productions to either a Greek or Roman type . There is an absence of the elegant simplicity of the one , and of the fulsomeness ...
... fame , and their epigrams , having never been reprinted , are very scarce . It is diffi- cult to refer their productions to either a Greek or Roman type . There is an absence of the elegant simplicity of the one , and of the fulsomeness ...
Page xxxi
... fame to the present . He has perhaps been overrated in this respect . It is necessary that a few remarks should be made upon epitaphs as a particular form of epigrammatic poetry , and it may be convenient to do so at this point , in ...
... fame to the present . He has perhaps been overrated in this respect . It is necessary that a few remarks should be made upon epitaphs as a particular form of epigrammatic poetry , and it may be convenient to do so at this point , in ...
Page xxxv
... fame rest upon it . A writer of established reputation may , however , in a joking way , throw off such trifles . Shenstone , for instance , addressed the following to a voluminous poet of Kidderminster : Thy verses , friend , are ...
... fame rest upon it . A writer of established reputation may , however , in a joking way , throw off such trifles . Shenstone , for instance , addressed the following to a voluminous poet of Kidderminster : Thy verses , friend , are ...
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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