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 vi
... Epitaphs , " with accounts of the deceased , by Hackett , 1757 ; " A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions , " 1806 ; and " Chronicles of the Tombs , " by the late Dr. Pettigrew , 1847 . One of the projected publications of ...
... Epitaphs , " with accounts of the deceased , by Hackett , 1757 ; " A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions , " 1806 ; and " Chronicles of the Tombs , " by the late Dr. Pettigrew , 1847 . One of the projected publications of ...
Pagina xiv
... epitaph , the latter an epigram . But the Greeks had not this distinction , nor does the ety- mology of the word " epigram " warrant it . The epitaph is only one of the forms of the epigram . According to its etymology , the epigram is ...
... epitaph , the latter an epigram . But the Greeks had not this distinction , nor does the ety- mology of the word " epigram " warrant it . The epitaph is only one of the forms of the epigram . According to its etymology , the epigram is ...
Pagina xxvii
... epitaphs that Herrick , like Ben Jonson , excels more than in any other kind of epigrammatic poetry , though there is ... Epitaph upon a Virgin " is singularly touching : Here a solemn fast we keep , While all beauty lies asleep , Husht ...
... epitaphs that Herrick , like Ben Jonson , excels more than in any other kind of epigrammatic poetry , though there is ... Epitaph upon a Virgin " is singularly touching : Here a solemn fast we keep , While all beauty lies asleep , Husht ...
Pagina xxxi
... epitaphs as a particular form of epigrammatic poetry , and it may be convenient to do so at this point , in order that a just judgment may be formed of his powers as a writer of monumental inscriptions . The chief intention of an epitaph ...
... epitaphs as a particular form of epigrammatic poetry , and it may be convenient to do so at this point , in order that a just judgment may be formed of his powers as a writer of monumental inscriptions . The chief intention of an epitaph ...
Pagina xxxii
... epitaph should not be merely general in praise . The particular characteristics of the dead should be clearly stated , so that the inscription may be suitable to that individual alone on whose tomb it is engraved ; otherwise no certain ...
... epitaph should not be merely general in praise . The particular characteristics of the dead should be clearly stated , so that the inscription may be suitable to that individual alone on whose tomb it is engraved ; otherwise no certain ...
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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?