 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1893 - 592 pages
...secure when there is a possibility to be deprived." Cowley has some very good lines on this subject : " Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers...river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should begone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on." Sir Walter Scott's Wamba... | |
 | 1836 - 778 pages
...that critic has doubted whether any other English line can equal : " Begin, be bold, and venture to bo wise. He who defers this work from day to day. Does...river's bank expecting stay. Till the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone, Which runs, and as it runs, far ever shall run on." The next letters... | |
 | 516 pages
...prorogat horam Rusticus expeflat dum labitur Amnis, at tlle Labitur, £jf labetur in omne volubilis tevum. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise ; He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a Rivers Bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopt him, should be gon, That runs, and as... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 172 pages
...prorogat horam Rusticys expectat dum labitur Amnis, at Me Labitur, & labetur in omne volubilis cevum. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise; He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a Rivers Bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopt him, should be gon, That runs, and as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...given one example of representative versification, which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, I)oes on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone, Which... | |
 | 522 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 runs, and as it runs, for ever shall run on." Without drawing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 820 pages
...at ille " Labitur, & labetur in omne volubilis «cvum £." Begin, be bold, and venture to be wife ; He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting ftay, * Juv. i. 150. f Lib. i, Agiie. JI Ep. ii. 40. Till the whole flream, which ftopt him, fhould... | |
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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. 
