 | 1803 - 296 pages
...horam, Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis : at ills Labitur, et labetur in omrie volubilis aevum. HoR. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise ; He who defers...bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopp'd him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. CowLEV. AN ancientpoet,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 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, Doe« oTi a river's bank expefting stay Till the whole strerm that stopp'd him shall be gone, Which... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 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...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. Cowley was, I believe,... | |
 | 1806 - 214 pages
...however, numerous beauties scattered throughout his works, of which the following is a happy specimen: Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers...day to day. Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Tjll the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone* Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever shall run... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 pages
...at ille " Labitur, & labetur in omne volubilis aevumt." Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise ; lie who defers this work from day to day, . Does on a river's bank expecting stay, « Lib. i. Agric. f 1 Ep. u. 40. Till the whole stream, which stopp'd him, should be gone, That runs,... | |
 | 1806 - 340 pages
...his work from day to day, lloes on a river's bank eype&ing stay, Till the whole stream, which stopp'd him, should . be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. CoWLEY. AN ancient poet, unreasonably discontented at the present state of things, which his system... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...verfification, which perhaps no other Englifh line can equal: 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 Till the whole fiream thatftopp'd him fhall be gorje, • Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...example of representative versification, which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin, be boH, and venture to be wise ; He, who defers this work from day to da)', Does on a river's bink expecting stay Till the whole siream that s'opp'd him shall be gone, IVhich... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 334 pages
...twram, iRustscus txpectat dum ds'fiuat amnfe : at ille Labitur, & labetur in omne "volubilis ovum* Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise ; He who defers...river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, fur ever will run on. COWLET. Ay ancient poet,... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...Rusticus expectat dum labitur amnis, at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum. Ep. ii. 40. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise ; He who defers...expecting stay ; Till the whole stream, which stopt him, ihould be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on." Caesar, the man of expedition above... | |
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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. 
