 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 284 pages
...expectat, dum defluat amnis : at ille " Labitur, & labetur in omne volubilis sevumt," Begin, be hold, and venture to be wise ; He who defers this work from...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. • f Caesar (the man... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 pages
...horam, " Rusticus expectat, dum defluat amnis : at ille " Labitur, & labetur in omne volubilis a3vumf." Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise ; He who defers...day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, * Lib. i. Agric. f 1 Ep. ii. 40. Till the whole stream, which stopp'd him, should be gone, That runs,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 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 shdtl run on. Cowley was, I believe,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...prorogat horam, rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis, at ille labitur, et labetur in omne volubilis a:vum. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise; he who defers...day to day, does on a river's bank expecting stay, [gone> till the whole stream, which stopp'd him, should be that runs, and as it runs, for ever will... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...prorogat horam, rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis, at ille labitur, et labetur in omne volubilis aevum. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise; he who defers...day to day, does on a river's bank expecting stay, [gone, till the whole stream, which stopp'd him, should be that runs, and as it runs, for ever will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...fylabetur in onme volubilis (twin* IIoiu 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, which stopp'd him, should he gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. CoWLET. AN ancient poet,... | |
 | 1810 - 462 pages
...Labitur, fylabetur in omne volubilu arcum, HoB. 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, which stepp'd him, should be gone^ •That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. CoWLET. AN ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...bis work from day to day, Does on a river'* bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stepp'd him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. COwLET. AN ancient poet, unreasonably discontented at the present state of things, which his system... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...labitur, et labetur in omne volubilis aevum. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise; he who defers Ihis work from day to day, does on a river's bank expecting stay, [gone, till the whole stream, which stopp'd him, should be that runs, and as it runs, for ever will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...&• labetur in omne volubilis xvum. Rojt: 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, which stopp'd him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. COWLEJ. -ancient poet,... | |
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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. 
