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... never had recourse to my own pen when I could find renderings by others which faithfully repre- sented the originals . In some cases I have made slight alterations in versions which were not sufficiently exact , but never without ...
... never had recourse to my own pen when I could find renderings by others which faithfully repre- sented the originals . In some cases I have made slight alterations in versions which were not sufficiently exact , but never without ...
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... never should fail : The body should always be little and sweet , And a sting should be felt in its tail . • The author of the " Dissertation on Epigrammatic Writing , " in the " Collection of Epigrams , " 1735 , says of the Greek ...
... never should fail : The body should always be little and sweet , And a sting should be felt in its tail . • The author of the " Dissertation on Epigrammatic Writing , " in the " Collection of Epigrams , " 1735 , says of the Greek ...
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... unworthy of a place in our literature , and as fit only to be the vehicle for party malice and private spite . Happily , however , there have never been wanting epigrammatists who scorned to imitate either INTRODUCTION . xxi.
... unworthy of a place in our literature , and as fit only to be the vehicle for party malice and private spite . Happily , however , there have never been wanting epigrammatists who scorned to imitate either INTRODUCTION . xxi.
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... never been wanting epigrammatists who scorned to imitate either the grossness or the folly of Martial , who copied him in his virtues and not in his vices ; and a few , too , who knew and appreciated the Greek models , and studied to ...
... never been wanting epigrammatists who scorned to imitate either the grossness or the folly of Martial , who copied him in his virtues and not in his vices ; and a few , too , who knew and appreciated the Greek models , and studied to ...
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... never gained a firm hold in Great Britain . When to More and Owen have been added Buchanan , Ninian Paterson , Crashaw , and Herbert , and , at a later period , Vincent Bourne , the Usher of Westmin- ster , the list is complete of those ...
... never gained a firm hold in Great Britain . When to More and Owen have been added Buchanan , Ninian Paterson , Crashaw , and Herbert , and , at a later period , Vincent Bourne , the Usher of Westmin- ster , the list is complete of those ...
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Page 561 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 34 - Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there, for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore...
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 191 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
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 16 - Romeo : and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 166 - Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye.
Page 50 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 126 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 218 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.