The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern TimesG. Bell and sons, 1875 - 695 pagina's |
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Pagina xxxiv
... Bishop , head - master of Merchant Taylors ' School , who de- serves some notice on account of the celebrity which he obtained in his day as an Epigrammatist . He took Martial for his pattern , but avoided his scurrility and coarseness ...
... Bishop , head - master of Merchant Taylors ' School , who de- serves some notice on account of the celebrity which he obtained in his day as an Epigrammatist . He took Martial for his pattern , but avoided his scurrility and coarseness ...
Pagina 2
... Bishop Jeremy Taylor quotes the saying in " The Great Exemplar , " Part I. Ad . Section vi . 4. ( The Flight into Egypt ) , and , curiously enough , amongst other examples , gives that of the flight of Demosthenes from a lost field , to ...
... Bishop Jeremy Taylor quotes the saying in " The Great Exemplar , " Part I. Ad . Section vi . 4. ( The Flight into Egypt ) , and , curiously enough , amongst other examples , gives that of the flight of Demosthenes from a lost field , to ...
Pagina 21
... Bishop Wordsworth of Lincoln , in his " Pompeian Inscriptions , " 1846 , gives the following from a wall in Pompeii , a painful reverse of the picture which the epigram presents : Zetema Mulier ferebat filium simulem sui , Nec meus est ...
... Bishop Wordsworth of Lincoln , in his " Pompeian Inscriptions , " 1846 , gives the following from a wall in Pompeii , a painful reverse of the picture which the epigram presents : Zetema Mulier ferebat filium simulem sui , Nec meus est ...
Pagina 22
... Bishop Blomfield in " Museum Criticum . " I mourn Antibia - whose paternal gate Unnumber'd suitors throng'd , her love to gain ; For she was fair and wise - but envious Fate Forbade ; and all their amorous hopes are vain . Marullus , a ...
... Bishop Blomfield in " Museum Criticum . " I mourn Antibia - whose paternal gate Unnumber'd suitors throng'd , her love to gain ; For she was fair and wise - but envious Fate Forbade ; and all their amorous hopes are vain . Marullus , a ...
Pagina 54
... Bishop of Constantinople . THE TOMB OF EUPHEMIUS . Translated by Samuel Wesley , Jun . A blooming youth lies buried here , Euphemius , to his country dear . Nature adorn'd his mind and face With every Muse and every Grace ; About the ...
... Bishop of Constantinople . THE TOMB OF EUPHEMIUS . Translated by Samuel Wesley , Jun . A blooming youth lies buried here , Euphemius , to his country dear . Nature adorn'd his mind and face With every Muse and every Grace ; About the ...
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The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ... Henry Philip Dodd Volledige weergave - 1870 |
The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ... Henry Philip Dodd Volledige weergave - 1876 |
The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ... Henry Philip Dodd Volledige weergave - 1870 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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?
Pagina 237 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Pagina 214 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? " Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic k summer's heat?
Pagina 458 - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember ? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on : And yet, within a month,— Let me not think on't, — Frailty, thy name is woman ! — A little month ; or ere those shoes were old, With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears : — why she, even she, — O heaven ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason...
Pagina 166 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Pagina 155 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Pagina 397 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage; or when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Pagina 432 - O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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?