Martialis Epigrammata selectaapud R. & J. Dodsley, 1755 - 239 strán (strany) |
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Strana 231 - To-morrow you will live, you always cry. In what far country does this 'morrow' lie, That 'tis so mighty long ere it arrive? Beyond the Indies does this 'morrow' live? 'Tis so far-fetched, this ' morrow,' that I fear, Twill be both very old and very dear. "To-morrow I will live," the fool does say : To-day itself 's too late, — the wise lived yesterday.
Strana 71 - My cause concerns nor battery nor treason ; I sue my neighbour for this only reason, That late three sheep of mine to pound he drove : This is the point the court would have you prove. Concerning Magna Charta you run on. And all the perjuries of old King John ; Then of the Edwards and Black Prince you rant, And talk of John o' Stiles and John o' Gaunt: With voice and hand a mighty pother keep.
Strana 235 - Instead of art and luxury in food, Let mirth and freedom make thy table good. If any cares into thy day-time creep, At night, without wine's opium, let them sleep.
Strana 217 - Well then, Sir, you shall know how far extend The prayers and hopes of your poetic friend. He does not palaces nor manors crave, Would be no lord, but less a lord would have ; The ground he holds, if he his own can call, He quarrels not with heaven, because 'tis small : Let gay and toilsome greatness others please, He loves of homely littleness the ease.
Strana 147 - Antonius is arriv'd at seventy-five, With all the ease and comfort life can give ; Safe from the voyage of a length of years, Looks back with joy ; nor death approaching fears. Not one of all his days can irksome find ; Not one but he with pleasure calls to mind. Thus a good man prolongs his mortal date ; Lives twice enjoying thus his former state.
Strana 235 - And all the solid use of riches knows. The ground about the house maintains it there, The house maintains the ground about it here Here even hunger's dear, and a full board Devours the vital substance of the lord. The land itself does there the feast bestow, The land itself must here to market go.
Strana 229 - T enjoy at once a quiet life and thee ; If we for happiness could leisure find, And wandering time into a method bind ; We should not sure the great-men's favour need, Nor on long hopes, the court's thin diet, feed ; We should not patience find daily to hear The calumnies and flatteries spoken there ; We should not the lords...
Strana 225 - Quinftiliane, vagae moderator fumme juventae," &c. WONDER not, Sir (you who inftruft the town In the true wifdom of the facred gown) That I make hade to live, and cannot hold Patiently cut till I grow rich and old. Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made hafte enough to live. Let him defer it, whofe prepofterous care Omits himfelf, and reaches to his heir; Who does his father's bounded...
Strana 227 - A little cleanly chearful family ! Which if a chaste wife crown, no less in her Than fortune, I the golden mean prefer. Too noble, nor too wise, she should not be, No, nor too rich, too fair, too fond of me. Thus let my life slide silently away, With sleep all night, and quiet all the day.
Strana 233 - Let this eftate from parents care defcend ; The getting it too much of life does fpend. Take fuch a ground, whofe gratitude may be A fair encouragement for induftry. Let conftant fires the winter's fury tame ; And let thy kitchen's be a veftal flame. Thee to the town let never fuit at law, And rarely, very rarely bufinefs draw. Thy active mind in equal temper keep, In undifturbed peace, yet not in fleep.