The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times. With Notes, Observations, Illustrations, and an IntroductionBell and Daldy, 1870 - 587 strán (strany) |
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Strana xv
... show the simplicity , and display the character , of the epi- grams . The first is an inscription by Simonides , which serves the double purpose of commemorating the deeds of the dead , and of impressing on the living the glory gained ...
... show the simplicity , and display the character , of the epi- grams . The first is an inscription by Simonides , which serves the double purpose of commemorating the deeds of the dead , and of impressing on the living the glory gained ...
Strana xviii
... indecent pandering to the vile lusts of an unchaste people , form the staple of his writings . He could , and occasionally did , compose epigrams in a very different strain , which show how nobly he might have followed xviii INTRODUCTION .
... indecent pandering to the vile lusts of an unchaste people , form the staple of his writings . He could , and occasionally did , compose epigrams in a very different strain , which show how nobly he might have followed xviii INTRODUCTION .
Strana xix
... show how nobly he might have followed in the steps of the Greeks , had he preferred high poetic fame to mere popular applause . The following , " On Demetrius , " is an example of his better style ( Book I. 102 , translated by ...
... show how nobly he might have followed in the steps of the Greeks , had he preferred high poetic fame to mere popular applause . The following , " On Demetrius , " is an example of his better style ( Book I. 102 , translated by ...
Strana xxv
... understood the Greek manner , and when he strays from it , as he too often does , into scurrilous and coarse language , he shows at once that he is doing violence to his own taste and principles . Not so , when he INTRODUCTION . XXV.
... understood the Greek manner , and when he strays from it , as he too often does , into scurrilous and coarse language , he shows at once that he is doing violence to his own taste and principles . Not so , when he INTRODUCTION . XXV.
Strana xxviii
... show that these authors had merit of various degrees . John Heywood writes of " Two , Arm in Arm " ( Ep . 19 ) : One said to another taking his arm , By license friend , and take this for no harm . No. Sir , quoth the other , I give you ...
... show that these authors had merit of various degrees . John Heywood writes of " Two , Arm in Arm " ( Ep . 19 ) : One said to another taking his arm , By license friend , and take this for no harm . No. Sir , quoth the other , I give you ...
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Strana 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?
Strana 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...
Strana 160 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Strana 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...
Strana 166 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly; These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play; But I have that within which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 202 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Strana 330 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Strana 539 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear : — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not ' Good night ' — but in some brighter clime Bid me