 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...horam, Rusticus exspectat, dum labitur amnis : at illc Labitur, et labetur in onine volubilis aevum." Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise ; He who defers...gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. Caesar (the man of expedition above all others)' was so far from this folly, that whensoever, in a... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...horam, Rusticus exspectat, dura labitur amnis : at ille Labitur, et labetur in omue volubilis aevum." Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise ; He who defers...gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. Caesar (the man of expedition above all others)^ was so far from this folly, that whensoever, in a... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 pages
...Rusticus exspectat, dum labitur amnis : at ilk• Labitur, ct labetur in omne volubilis aevum." ISeqin, bo bold, and venture to be wise ; He who defers this...gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. Caesar (the man of expedition above all others) was so far from this folly, that whensoever, in a journey,... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...susceptible of ornament. It is the following example, in which sound is made to represent sense : — Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise. He who defers...river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stops him shall be gone, Which runs, and as it runs for ever shall run on. Cowley was also a writer... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 pages
...susceptible of ornament. It is the following example, in which sound is made to represent sense : — Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise. He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's hank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stops him shall he gone, Which runs, and as it runs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...syllables. one example of representative versification, which perhaps DO other English line can equal : Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He, who defers this work from day today, Does on a river's bank expectinp stay TilI the whole stream that stopp'd dim shall be gone,... | |
 | 1850 - 510 pages
...the finest in the English language — " Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise. He who defers his work from day to day Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone, Which runt, and as it runt, for ever thall run on." Without drawing... | |
 | 1832 - 324 pages
...Labitur, et labetur in omnc volubilis Evum. UOR. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers his work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream that stopped him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on. COWLEY. Let us... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...prorogat horam, Kuitieuj txpectat dum defiant nmnis : at itte r. a labtlar « onme colutUu ttvum. Bef in, onversed, that I began to listen, with great attention, to those that reco Doea on B river'i bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which fctopp'd him, should be gone, That... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 pages
...proper degree, are certainly desirable. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise; He, which defers his work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, that stopped him will be gone, Which runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. It is this commixture... | |
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on. 
