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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... beauty that can be attained in the workmanship . They are printed at the Chiswick Press , on fine paper , with wide margins , and issued in a neat cloth binding . Longfellow's Evangeline , Voices , Sea - side and Fire - side . 48. 6d ...
... beauty that can be attained in the workmanship . They are printed at the Chiswick Press , on fine paper , with wide margins , and issued in a neat cloth binding . Longfellow's Evangeline , Voices , Sea - side and Fire - side . 48. 6d ...
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... beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step . We cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in the splendid bouquet of flowers presented in these pages , and it will be sufficient to state that ...
... beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step . We cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in the splendid bouquet of flowers presented in these pages , and it will be sufficient to state that ...
Pagina ix
... beauty , and it is a subject of regret that my efforts to recover the names of the writers have not been successful . Some , however , which have hitherto been generally given as anonymous , I am glad to be able to ascribe to their ...
... beauty , and it is a subject of regret that my efforts to recover the names of the writers have not been successful . Some , however , which have hitherto been generally given as anonymous , I am glad to be able to ascribe to their ...
Pagina xvi
... Beauty's Queen . From Rhianus an example of an impassioned lover's cry may be selected ( Jacobs I. 231 , vi . , translated by Sir Charles Elton ) : Dexionica , with a limed thread , Her snare beneath a verdant plane - tree spread , And ...
... Beauty's Queen . From Rhianus an example of an impassioned lover's cry may be selected ( Jacobs I. 231 , vi . , translated by Sir Charles Elton ) : Dexionica , with a limed thread , Her snare beneath a verdant plane - tree spread , And ...
Pagina xvii
... beauty of an earlier period , fell often into sarcasms and strained conceits , which contrast unfavourably with the simple style of their predecessors . Even the worst of modern epigrams is scarcely inferior to one by Lucian ( Jacobs ...
... beauty of an earlier period , fell often into sarcasms and strained conceits , which contrast unfavourably with the simple style of their predecessors . Even the worst of modern epigrams is scarcely inferior to one by Lucian ( Jacobs ...
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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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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?